Irvine's Saigon Grille Becomes Pho Ha Noi

This is the fifth edition of this guide — a roadmap to Orange County’s wildly diverse dining scene. Narrowing this list to 75 recommendations gets harder each year. Yes, this list is highly personal and subjective but also painstakingly...

It was another great year, food-wise, for Orange County, with the opening of new restaurants by talented youngsters putting us on the SoCal hipster map; an explosion of craft brewers, burger parlors and serious mixologists returning eaters to our...

Photo by @ocwmktgdirector Grandpa’s Kitchen—Dry Noodles 168 has a dish I’ve neither seen nor tasted before in Little Saigon. On the menu, it’s called “Grandpa’s Dry Noodles,” but the Vietnamese translation, pho khô, reveals what it really is: the...

Orange County’s Little Saigon isn’t so little anymore. It is a sprawling wonderland of food in Westminster, Fountain Valley and Garden Grove that grows bigger by the minute. You could eat Vietnamese food every day for a year and still not keep up...

Quán Vịt Vịt Vịt    Quán Mii    Destination Seafood House    Pho Ga Ly Thuong Kiet    Thanh Do    Pho Hong Long    Pickle Banh Mi   

The latter half of last year saw three new Vietnamese restaurants opening in Irvine, with Pho So 1, La Pho, and Pho Saigon Pearl vying for the wallets and mouths of the rice noodle-slurping public. It continues this year as The Irvine Company...