Mr. G’s Bistro on Balboa Island Has a Great Chicken Dish—But a Bad One, Too

A restaurant called Mr. G's Bistro has opened on Balboa Island at the space vacated by Barolo By The Sea. Entrees include chicken roulade and potato gnocchi. 305 Marine Ave., Newport Beach, CA 92662 MasalaCraft, the Indian restaurant that took...

I bet most of you reading, even those who are regulars at the two Memphises in Orange County, had no idea that there was a third Memphis, one called Memphis at the Beach in Manhattan Beach. I had the pleasure of eating there around two years ago,...

“Where are we going?” my friend asked me as I drove. “Place is called Krave,” I replied. “Didn’t you already review that?” “No, that was Crave with a C in Santa Ana,” I said. “This is Krave with a K. It’s behind the Souplantation in Irvine.”...

Empress Pavilion is the biggest restaurant in Chinatown, a glittery, hangar-size seafood palace built at the height of the late 1980s boom. In its early years, you would typically wait an hour or more for a table on dim sum Sunday mornings, and in...

The life cycle of luxe loncheras is the opposite of butterflies'. They spend their adolescent years flitting about from place to place, and if they're lucky and survive, they settle into the cocoon of a permanent home. The Lime Truck, Dos Chinos,...