Calling All Itinerant Chefs: Playground Opens '2.0 Collaborative,' a Pop-Up Space for Rent

Last week Chef Ryan Carson revealed that The Playground is opening a pop-up addendum called Collaboration 2.0 (or Playground 2.0, or just 2.0 depending on who you ask), right next door. It's going to be kind of a restaurant space for rent for...

Ryan Carson's 'Pri-vē pop up at Playground 2.0 has announced they will do a 17-course dinner with 6 drink intermezzos September 14 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. The cost will be $165, which will already include the tax, tip, and booze. No, that isn't a...

Ryan Carson, ex-chef at AnQi who went itinerant with those 'Pri-vē pop-ups has announced the next few nights for Playground 2.0, and one of them features food from what we here at the Weekly have deemed one of the most underrated cuisines in our...

UPDATE: I was completely off the mark on the date. It's tomorrow night, not tonight…which means there's still time if you want a reservation at the 9 p.m. seating. ORIGINAL POST: If you're reading this, it's close to dinner time, and the...

It was two years ago that Jason Quinn, now famous (or is it infamous?) for his downtown Santa Ana restaurant The Playground, did his first interview here on this very blog. At the time, when I asked him “What cuisine that you are unfamiliar with...