It's DIY Time At Bari Bari Japanese BBQ

I should've seen it coming. There were hints. Though the food was great, the restaurant was often deserted. Bari Bari BBQ, the mom-and-pop yakiniku that opened barely four months ago in Tustin after a long delay, has gone up in smoke. It is now...

If you've driven by on Tustin's Newport Blvd., you'd notice that the building that once occupied Yoshino has been vacant for months. But today, I saw what you see above: a hastily spray painted sign guided by stencil, which says “BARI BARI BBQ...

By now, you should have noticed that we do these “Restaurant Roll Call” posts at every month's end. This month, though short, is no exception. We noticed more openings than closings this time. And those that closed, such as Tapioca Express and...

Grills of Your DreamsYour essential summertime list of top local keepers of the barbecue flame Barbecue: If thereNs a more loaded word in the culinary dictionary, I donNt know it. It is a catch-all term meaning different things to different...

Some restaurants just aren't very good ideas during the hot summer months. Korean soft tofu joints, with their boiling iron cauldrons of soup. Fondue restaurants. Teppanyakis—really, anything that involves scalding-hot broth, open flames or live...