Eat This Now: French Toast at James Republic

Ready to swish-swish. Photo by Edwin Goei There’s regular shabu-shabu restaurants, and then there’s Shabuya, the all-you-can-eat buffet chain of all the things you’d ever want to boil, simmer and swish in your own roiling vat of broth. I first...

The cod father. Photo by @ocwmktgdirector There are currently four restaurants at Lido Marina Village, the revamped dockside mall that seems to be the epicenter of everything new and chic in Newport Beach these days. Of those four, Circle Hook is...

Reem Kassis thought for sure she was a one-and-done cookbook author. In 2017 Phaidon published “The Palestinian Table,” written so Kassis could codify her family recipes and help preserve — or “safeguard,” a word she uses often — an everyday...

Photo by Edwin Goei It could be argued that other than AnQi—which lies beyond Little Saigon’s boundaries and thus doesn’t survive on what the community thinks of it—few upscale Vietnamese restaurants get very far in the enclave. Until, that is,...

Photo by Edwin Goei It’s hard to overstate how humongous BWON Shabu & BBQ is. Imagine a bowling alley, then take out all the lanes, add tables and dangling exhaust vents, but keep all the flat-screens. It is so huge that if you had to sprint to...