Boqueria's Tasty Tapas Hatches at Rooster Cafe

OC is haunted by the ghosts of failed Spanish concepts. In the idylls of Ladera Ranch, there was once a short-lived but well-meaning restaurant called Picante whose specialty was paellas baked in pans an acre wide. A few years later, a Spain-based...

Burritos are pretty delicious under any circumstance, but a good breakfast burrito is a special kind of pleasure. All those eggs and warm fillings—tucked inside a cozy tortilla blanket—ready to power you up for the day ahead. L.A. may be first and...

In Search Of . . .The clandestine cuisine of Costa Mesa’s Hidden Kitchen My duty here is to shine a light on restaurants deserving of praise and publicity. But what if there were an eatery so special, so good, and whose virtue depended so much on...

“I miss the snow,” he says, looking out the window on a beautiful sunny day as we scroll through images of friends on Instagram playing in the snow in New York. “Me, too,” I say. “But I’m not squeezing into an airplane filled with recirculated...

Like Dim Sum, Except Spanish Barcelona comes to Fullerton via Lizarran Tapas For lack of a better term, I've been known to throw around the word “tapas” to describe any food that's smaller than an entrée, but not quite an appetizer. Dim sum, for...