Laguna Beach's French 75 Rises Above Its Confusing Corporate Past

In keeping with theme of everything old is new again (remember this post about Savannah at the Beach becoming Chimayo again?), it was announced last week that Culinary Adventures, that restaurant empire that once had four French 75's in its...

Ever since Ryan Adams, the last chef to mind the stoves at Sorrento Grille, bought the restaurant and opened Three Seventy Common in its place, there has been a palpable sense of change in the air. Re-energized, the staff seems genuinely enthused,...

Mitch Gillan, who was, until recently, the chef at French 75 in Laguna Beach, has updated us on where he is now in a comment made on my review of the restaurant. The meal I reviewed, coincidentally, turned out to be one of the last meals he cooked...

Danny Godinez has always been working and learning. Born and raised in Acapulco, Mexico, he helped his mom to make pozole for her restaurant starting at age 5. It would take days to prep the hominy kernels, but his mother insisted on nothing less....

Blaze, PascalBrasserie Pascal is the restaurant Pascal Olhats has been waiting to do, and itNs worth the wait As a friend of mine pointed out, Pascal Olhats couldNve made his mark in New York, LA or Chicago; but he shunned those big ponds and...