Brush Up on Your knowledge of Egyptian Dishes Before You Go to the New El Fishawy in Tustin

Photo from OC Weekly archives A new Italian restaurant called Oliver’s Osteria has opened in the space that was formerly Ivory Restaurant & Lounge in Laguna Beach. The menu features pastas to risottos to meat and seafood dishes. 853 Laguna Canyon...

Upon my first trip to El Mahroosa Cafe N Hookah Lounge, I had a choice. Do I sit in the stark white room under harsh fluorescent lights, or do I make my way to the covered patio? It was clear. No one sits in the front room. Everyone, even if...

As with most restaurants that are also hookah lounges, I knew we’d be sitting outside at Luxor Cafe & Restaurant in Garden Grove. And Luxor is practically all outdoor patio because Rozana Café—the restaurant and hookah lounge it replaced—was also...

Photo by Edwin Goei I was 20 when I first discovered Peruvian cuisine. It was at a restaurant called El Pollo Inka in Lawndale, and a friend who’d snagged a job at Northrop Grumman in nearby El Segundo had told me about it. Everyone in her office...

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...