Edwin's Top Five Restaurants of 2014

For years, there was a Shakey’s on Westminster Avenue and Taft Street, where it dead-ends into a river bed in Garden Grove. It was one of the older Shakey’s in Orange County, as was obvious from the Kennedy-era font spelling out “Shakey’s Pizza...

Time to Crown Royal?China Garden is still the king of IrvineNs Chinese restaurant scene, but Royal Kitchen just might be cooking up a palace coup For years now, Irvine has needed a Chinese restaurant to come along and break the monopolizing...

Yes, it's the obligatory Lenten fish post. We kinda did one last year, and probably the year before that. But this is a new list, a roster of ten of the best fish dishes your humble food scribe discovered since I did that last list, with nothing...

Just about every country in the East has a food that features pillowy steamed bread stuffed with meat. The Chinese begat the original, bao. The Japanese call theirs nikuman, while the Koreans have wang mandoo and the Filipinos siopao. Even...

The World on Your PlateIn Orange County, you can go around the world in 50 states (or cities, or regions, or styles, or whatever) Next time some xenophobe tells you Orange County is culinarily bland, doesnNt offer anything other than Taco Bell and...