Get In Line Now to Eat at The Halal Guys in Costa Mesa Later

Meet Paul Tran, a man with two titles and two different jobs at two different companies. He’s senior director of development at Fransmart, a franchise-development firm that has helped to thrust brands such as Five Guys into the national spotlight....

As I entered the parking lot on Halal Guys opening day, I knew the line would be long, but not this long. The queue of bodies literally wrapped around the building. I hadn't seen anything like it since Din Tai Fung opened in South Coast Plaza and...

For a place that makes only one dish, the hype for Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice was deafening. Word that the restaurant—the first U.S. outpost of a Chinese chain with 6,000 locations in Asia and Australia—was opening in Tustin spread like juicy...

I’ve written about Zankou Chicken’s rotisserie chicken before. There was a time I binged on it, eating there week after week, consuming bird after bird, smearing that toum (garlic paste) on every surface that was edible. When I went back recently...

Huntington Beach’s North Shore Poke Company has opened store number three in Costa Mesa (the second one opened in Cerritos a few years ago). It’s located in the same strip mall that has Creamistry, Capital Noodle, and, of course, Halal Guys as...