Habibi's Funnel Cake Closes; To Be Replaced By A New El Toro Bravo

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • January 30, 2013
Habibi's Funnel Cake opened in the summer of 2010 in Tustin adjacent to a Starbucks, next to a busy freeway on ramp to Interstate 5. At the time, I not-so-quietly wondered that it seemed like an unlikely place for a funnel cake place (it's nowhere...
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