Lido Bottle Works Is Where to Eat at Lido Marina Village

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • August 10, 2017

It was close to 10 p.m. when the wedding-cruise riverboats began returning to the Lido Marina. They’re enormous—futuristic steamboats gleaming of glass, polished chrome and spiraling staircases. As the party guests danced their last dance, these...

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Review: Malibu Farm at Lido Village in Newport Beach peddles a certain lifestyle as much as good taste

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • October 11, 2018

Zinque, Lido Bottle Works, Circle Hook, Nobu… Of the entire range of casual, laid-back-luxury, indoor/outdoor restaurants to open at Lido Marina Village, none has fully captured the joie de vivre of this revitalized harbor-side complex as...

Malibu Farm Embodies All the Best California-Cuisine Clichés

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • November 7, 2018

Perfect hangar steak. Photo by Mercedes Del Real Last month, I was at the historic Fort Worth Stockyards, an epicenter of meat processing back in the Wild Wild West. The steakhouse there, H3 Ranch, was exactly what I wanted to find while I was in...

Where to eat in coastal Newport Beach: The ultimate guide

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • June 27, 2019

Whether you live the Balboa lifestyle full-time or you merely come to play, most of us end up here at some point, and we all need to eat. And there’s never been a better time to eat in Newport Beach than right now. Between the debut of the Lido...

Eat Great Fish and Chips at Circle Hook as You Take in the Newport Harbor Scenery

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • August 29, 2018

The cod father. Photo by @ocwmktgdirector There are currently four restaurants at Lido Marina Village, the revamped dockside mall that seems to be the epicenter of everything new and chic in Newport Beach these days. Of those four, Circle Hook is...

Best of 2019: Orange County’s 10 best new restaurants of the year

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • December 26, 2019

End-of-year lists like this one are never easy. In terms of legitimate “best new restaurants,” 2019 year gave us an embarrassment of riches. It probably would have been easier to compile a list of the 25 best newcomers, but I’ve never been a fan...