Jaqu's in Huntington Beach Wants to Be Everything to Everyone—And It Just Might Be

You can't blame David Wilhelm for being proactive. With OC's once-meteoric housing market in a slump and its citizenry mired in rising debt, the restaurant mogul—the closest we get to Wolfgang Puck—had to make some changes quickly. His repertoire...

Have you ever noticed the more brightly lit a Chinese restaurant is, the higher its prices? Think of those grand San Gabriel Valley seafood emporiums that might as well be basketball arenas. If this axiom holds, then the inverse is true for...

Ah, Laguna Beach. If there were a rallying point where the high-concept restaurants flock, it'd be here. There are at least three new restaurants slated for Laguna's coast this year, all of them fit for a town that seems to demand a new restaurant...

Nancy Wilhelm's Starfish opens today at the Albertsons plaza in Laguna Beach. As I said in an earlier post, if the name sounds familiar, she's the woman behind Tabu Grill and David Wilhelm's former wife. ] From its Facebook page, all indications...

Since filing for bankruptcy protection, David Wilhelm's Culinary Adventures seems to be doing something proactive about it: offering cheap meals. For those just tuning in, Savannah is a rebranding of Chat Noir — an effort to make the place more...