Javier's Cantina N Grill Gets Bested

Gustavo Arellano first wrote about Lola Gaspar four years ago, when our food blog was still young and the restaurant had just opened. He weaved a brutal account of the inattentive service, the exorbitant $9 tacos trios, and a toothless habanero...

If you follow this rag faithfully, you should know this is a re-review of Mariscos Licenciado #2, an Anaheim restaurant Gustavo has long championed, both in these pages and on our Stick a Fork in It blog. Recently, it went through a remodel. They...

It was high noon on a sunny but brisk Newport Beach day. The Bentleys gleamed in the valet lot. I was first to arrive. Then Dave Lieberman in a sport coat. Then Gustavo Arellano. We'd agreed to eat at Red O together, the second outpost of Rick...

“I'd like pepperoni, sausage, meatba—” I started to say to the Pieology worker when she cut me off. “No, I only do sauces,” she growled. “Pardon me?” “I only do sauces!” she repeated even more forcefully, her head down, a permanent scowl etched...

It used to be kind of a rule: Whenever you reviewed Park Avenue, you needed to talk about the seedy-looking motel across the street. And all the other motor lodges, trailer parks and liquor stores, bristling with metal bars, that you passed on...