Culinary Giant Charlie Palmer Fires Up the Burner at His First California Restaurant

One of the most memorable things you can eat at Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's South Coast Plaza isn't the foie gras or the steaks; it's the sliders. The bite-sized burgers boast a Kobe-style patty rich enough to match their glossy,...

Charlie Palmer lost a good chef in Amar Santana, but to know the guy's upward career path is to have anticipated his inevitable departure. Santana began cooking at 16 in New York, went to the Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park on a full...

I was with a bunch of visiting businessmen from Texas who had just come back from Lucille's Smokehouse, and what they had to say wasn't kind. “It was good,” one them said, “but it wasn't barbecue.” The rest of them nodded. ] If it were a group of...

When I say that The Lime Truck is the youngest of OC's new age food trucks, I mean it. It's as green to the scene as their bright lime paint job. As you read this post, the truck would've been on the road roughly a month. The two guys behind the...

“I haven’t forgotten that we’re celebrating a birthday tonight!” our server exclaimed after we finished our dinner. He’d been extremely attentive all evening, but now he was back at our table with a surprise treat. Whatever it was, it was...