Irvine Marriot Opens CANVAS, A Food And Drink Concept Lab For Aspiring Restaurateurs

No, CANVAS is not another hotel restaurant. CANVAS apparently is a venue where aspiring chefs and restaurant entrepreneurs can pitch their ideas to the Marriott Hotel group and then, if selected, get some start-up capital and see their ideas...

Photo by Edwin Goei Like the similarly named Dermot Mulroney and Dylan McDermott, the new Huntington Beach restaurant called Heirloom, a Modern Farmhouse doesn’t have much in common with Heirloom Farmhouse Kitchen in Irvine. The former is an...

They’ve got chops! Photo by Edwin Goei From the outside, the new Marriott Irvine Spectrum resembles another one of Irvine’s yawn-inducing office towers. Built with equal portions of glass, steel and concrete, it’s a square-shaped skyscraper that’s...

Think a moment about the last piece of fruit or vegetable you ate. Do you know where it came from? Do you know who grew it? If your answer to both is “no,” consider this: If you were part of Morning Song Farm's Community Supported Agriculture,...

“Deja vu.” The dining room at Outer Reef, a new surf-and-turf restaurant at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott in Dana Point, strikes me as pretty but feels eerily familiar: the combination of white wainscoting, light hardwood floors and navy upholstery...