House of Great Views and Values

Today we conclude our Q&A with Chef Craig Connole. If you missed the first part, read it here. Stay tuned tomorrow for our final installment: a recipe from the chef. What would you'd like to see more of in Orange County from a culinary standpoint:...

House of Big Fish and Ice Cold Beer, the restaurant with a mouthful of words and a slew of awards including Best Happy Hour 2011 and Best Seafood Restaurant 2010, is closing next month. We got a tip from a reader that the parent company was going...

House of Big Fish and Ice Cold Beer has managed to achieve the seemingly impossible: affordable seafood in Laguna Beach. And it does it with that tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek name that's as fun to say as it probably took them to make up. The...

Laguna Beach's The House of Big Fish and Ice Cold Beer–the restaurant with a mouthful of words for a name and a slew of awards from us including Best Happy Hour 2011 and Best Seafood Restaurant 2010–closed last month when its owner, Casa Resorts,...

Time for our monthly round-up of open-and-shut-cases we wrote about last month. Among the notable ones was the debut of Capital Noodle Bar, a spin-off from the Capital chain, and that someone finally moved in to the old Battle of the Dance...