Orea Taverna's Greek Chic

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • March 1, 2012
There are two things you must get at Orea Taverna: the saganaki and the pyato souvlaki. Both are table spectacles of the kind that make you turn your head when another table orders it: over-the-top apotheoses of cheese and meat and thus also the...
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