Hook & Anchor Elevates Fast-Casual Seafood in Newport Beach

Lobsta! Photo by @ocmktgdirector Around four years ago, I ate at the exact spot I’m writing about today. I was reviewing a new place that was simultaneously called Biggie Baguette and Quebec Montreal Poutine. The restaurant had two names because...

  85º Bakery Cafe in Tustin. Photo by Anne Marie Panoringan 85°C Bakery Cafe has opened in Tustin, it’s 7th store in Orange County. Another store is in the works at the Irvine Spectrum Center. 1100 Irvine Blvd., Tustin, CA 92780. A new restaurant...

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...

When you see uni pasta on the menu, do your eyes, like mine, gravitate toward it as though sparklers surrounded it? It seems to have become de rigueur at every Asian fusion restaurant that’s opened in the past few years. Fusion Bites, inside...

For this list I had to whittle down a list of many worthy places. The criteria I used was simple: “Which of these 50+ restaurants I ate at this year would I most likely return and become a regular.” This was the answer: ] 5. Big Catch Seafood The...