Is the new Popeyes fish sandwich better than McDonald's?

I’ve been closely watching the fast-food fried chicken wars for a couple years now. When Popeyes introduced its chicken sandwich in 2019, it threatened to dethrone Chick-fil-A as the go-to place for fried chicken with pickle chips on a bun. Now,...

Call it a reverse knee-jerk response, but when I saw this story about L.A.'s City Council's ban on new fast-food restaurants in South Los Angeles to combat obesity and the highest incidence of diabetes in the county, it made this blogger realize...

In the four years since I originally published my bucket list of the best fried chicken in Orange County, several of those restaurants closed while other strong contenders opened. So it’s time for an update. This rewrite begins with the same...

Angelenos have a reputation as a healthy, clean-eating crew, so you would think that, as global pandemic set-in and we sheltered in place, we would be keeping ourselves sustained by placing delivery orders for salads and juice. Not so, says new...

Photo by @ocwmktgdirector It’s been around seven years since chef Ryan Adams shook up the Laguna Beach dining scene with family-style suppers at 370 Common. Called “Sunday Socials,” they were supposed to be evocative of meals at home, with...