Kaya Street Kitchen, the “Asian Chipotle”, Opening Soon in Aliso Viejo

Whenever I visit a new city, the first thing I do is eat whatever the area is known for. The second thing I do is count how many Indonesian restaurants are around. I do this with the hope that someday I might find myself in a town with as many...

I’ve been around long enough to remember what has occupied the building at the corner of Cornell and Campus at Irvine’s Campus Plaza. In the 90s it was once a Boston Market and then, at some point, it became a Blockbuster Video until, you know,...

In one of his earlier standup routines, Jim Gaffigan had a great joke on how, during his time as a waiter at a Mexican restaurant in Indiana, he had to deal with clueless customer questions about the menu. They'd ask him, “What is nachos? What is...

The color of the Malaysian-style white coffee that Kenji Tang serves at his Alhambra restaurant Ipoh Kopitiam hews closer to milk chocolate than pure cream. Its taste hints of chocolate too, in the way that lightly roasted coffee can, though a...

Welcome to the Weekly's list of our 100 Favorite Dishes for 2011! Tune in every day until we get to número uno! Now, on to the latest entry. It doesn't surprise me that Sol del Sur's Dave Emery hasn't run out of steam. What drives the man is a...