Meatballs for the Masses at Rustica

Today, we continue our Q&A with Renieri Caceres, the executive chef at Rustica in Fashion Island. If you missed the first part, click here to read it. And stay tuned tomorrow for a recipe. ] What show would you pitch to the Food Network? A Food...

There has been a changing of the guard at Rustica in Fashion Island. Grant MacPherson left the kitchen sometime last November, leaving it to the very capable hands of his chef de cuisine, Renieri Caceres, who, like his predecessor, came from Sin...

For our final installment of On the Line with Renieri Caceres, the executive chef at Rustica in Fashion Island, our interview subject shares a recipe. If you missed the first or second part of our Q&A, click here and here. Otherwise, click onward....

If we're not inundated with food-truck events, there's always some restaurant week happening somewhere. We're in the midst of Irvine's Restaurant Week. But yesterday, OC Restaurant Week, arguably one of the most successful in our realm, announced...

If Kogi can make a fortune pairing kimchi and tortillas, why not spaghetti and ssam? Howard Gordon, an ex-Cheesecake Factory vice president and his Korean fiancee, Jenny Lee, hope to do just that with their new Irvine restaurant, Itriya Cafe. But...