Is This The Cheapest Non-Fast-Food Chicken Dinner in OC?

If Little Saigon were Vegas, Bolsa Avenue would be its Fremont Street, and the intersection of Westminster Boulevard and Brookhurst Street would be where Las Vegas Boulevard meets Flamingo Road. The corner is arguably one of the busiest and...

Didn’t win the lottery? Don’t stress. You can still eat very well for $20 or less. Southern fried chicken, Chinese noodle soup, incredible tacos, burgers, Chettinad-style Indian curries and Greek-style grilled octopus… These are my favorite places...

Brother, Can You Spare a Taco? For our recessionary times, 54 Orange County meal deals between 99 cents and $15 How's $4 gas treating you? Devalued homes? Layoffs? Shrunken Los Angeles Times? Outsourced Orange County Register? And doesn't it suck...

It only took the first bite of Yamame’s imported Japanese scallop nigiri to remind me why I still go to high-end sushi restaurants such as this. Despite the advent of assembly-line poke shops and all-you-can-eat sushi emporiums that promise...

The last time I ate the woefully underappreciated sausage called boerewors, it was at a now-shuttered South African bar in Long Beach. It’s as basic a tube steak as you can imagine: mildly spiced ground beef stuffed into casing with bits of fat,...