Capital Grille Has Big Meat for Big Money

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • November 4, 2010
Everything at the new Capital Grille at South Coast Plaza follows the expensive-steakhouse rulebook. Bedroom-sized, temperature-controlled, glass-encased wine lockers. Hanging eerily in the hallways are paintings of long-dead aristocratic types,...
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