Laguna Beach's House of Big Fish Resurrected as Big Fish Tavern

You gorged yourself on steak on Tuesday in preparation for this: the first Friday of Lent. So tonight, it's fish. And it's going to be fish (and/or seafood) for many Fridays to come. Here are 10 of this non-Catholic food writer's essential places...

Sometimes, it feels as if the forces of the universe are conspiring to create a food of the moment. That food, at this moment, is the fried fish sandwich. We seem to have emerged from the Fried Chicken Sandwich ecosphere only to enter an era of...

It’s hard to recall a better piece of fish lately than the roasted sea bass at Detention, the restaurant formerly known as Playground in downtown Santa Ana. The skin is crisp and delicate, like a micro layer of chicharron. The flesh underneath...

Oceanic Fish Grill had a coupon expiring December 31, 2013. But as it turns out, the restaurant appears to have expired before the coupon did. ] The California Fish Grill facsimile that opened October of 2012 to replace a shuttered Jalapenos has...

At my count, there are now four seafood restaurants where PCH cuts through Sunset Beach. Here, in a neighborhood largely ignored by the tourist throngs, the old guard of King Neptune’s, Captain Jack’s and Harpoon Harry’s sounds like characters...