Izakaya Ku Plays With Fire

Izakaya Ku, the winner of our award for Best Japanese Restaurant last year (and topped more lists than I care to count), has closed. There was a note taped to the door that simply said “IZAKAYA KU RESTAURANT is CLOSED. We thank you for your...

I always go into these end-of-year lists thinking they'd be be a cinch to do. Then, I actually start doing it and realize how hard it is. No, it's not the writing part–that's easy; it's the winnowing process that's painful. It took me a day of...

If you've not noticed, the reason Fountain Valley's been buzzed about lately is because of donuts. There's Afters, which blew everyone's mind with their ice cream-stuffed donuts. And then there's The Donut Bar, which will do the same crazy...

It's always a good thing when I find that there are more restaurants opening than closing when I do these end-of-month reports. Restaurant closures are sad.  Anyway, on with the post. Herewith is the roll-call of stuff we wrote about and/or...

Time for another Restaurant Roll Call, where we roundup all the open and shut cases we wrote about the past month on this thing called a food blog. And my was there a lot of openings, including the first (if I'm not mistaken) buffet to serve soul...