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Critic Brad A. Johnson says the Taco Mesa in Orange is a world apart from the one in Costa Mesa
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • July 3, 2019
“When are you going to write about Taco Mesa?” a friend from Orange kept asking. She was talking about the one in her hometown, but I was thinking of the one in Costa Mesa, the only one of which I’d been to. I don’t dislike it, I told her, but...
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