Bluegold in Huntington Beach Is Big, Bold and Ambitious—But Still a Bit Uneven

If you’ve been to Bluegold at Pacific City and thought, as I did, that it was an uneven experience, you need to push the reset button, then go back and try LSXO, the Vietnamese restaurant within the restaurant. It turns out that this speakeasy-ish...

Photo by Edwin Goei Like the similarly named Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott, the new Huntington Beach restaurant called Heirloom, a Modern Farmhouse doesn’t have much in common with Heirloom Farmhouse Kitchen in Irvine. The former is an...

For years, there was a Shakey’s on Westminster Avenue and Taft Street, where it dead-ends into a river bed in Garden Grove. It was one of the older Shakey’s in Orange County, as was obvious from the Kennedy-era font spelling out “Shakey’s Pizza...

Music to Your Palate An amazing lamb and a side of Moldy Peaches at Bistro 400 I wasn't going to order the lamb, but when our server proclaimed it as “hands-down the best thing we do,” how could I not? Cut into meaty teardrops, the...

This is the fifth edition of this guide — a roadmap to Orange County’s wildly diverse dining scene. Narrowing this list to 75 recommendations gets harder each year. Yes, this list is highly personal and subjective but also painstakingly...