Dueling Dishes: Flame Broiler vs. Waba Grill

It's kind of poetic actually. Two fast food outlets replaced by one that touts its un-fast-food-ness. What's more it's The Flame Broiler, a homegrown chain that began life 14 years ago in Fullerton. Their claim to fame? Rice bowls that are made...

On this week's episode of Dueling Dishes, we pit two fast-food teriyaki bowls chains against each other.  In one corner, hailing from Japan at 110-years-old: Yoshinoya.  In the other, originally from Fullerton and at 14-years-old is the young...

I eat at Flame Broiler more than I care to admit. An unintended side effect is that I now see them everywhere. It's sort of like how you start to notice a certain make of car on the road because it's also the make your car. ] Seriously, this...

I have two fast-food guilty pleasures: Jack-In-the-Box's mystery-meat tacos and Yoshinoya's chicken bowls. The tacos I consider as nothing but a snack, eaten late at night when no one's watching; but Yoshinoya's chicken bowl has fed me for...

If you read my twice daily ramblings on this blog with any regularity, you'll know that I have an unhealthy affinity with Yoshinoya. Apart from the mystery-meat tacos at Jack in the Box, it is one of the few fast food places that I eat at with any...