Pandor Artisan Boulangerie & Café Is the Bread Winner

Pandor, the Newport Beach bakery I reviewed around this time last year and said this: “[Pandor's] Tropézienne and kouign-amann are just some of many eclectic regional French specialties that will inspire the kind of where-have-you-been-all-my-life...

The eggplant katsu sandwich at Konbi in Echo Park has the demure looks of a high society English tea sandwich: crustless slices of springy white bread, tidily filled with fried eggplant and finely shredded cabbage. One bite, however, and the...

Everybody loves a good banh mi. Nobody likes a bad one, but the bad ones are everywhere and multiplying. The Vietnamese sandwich made with a crusty French baguette has become a staple in Orange County — not merely in Little Saigon. A good banh mi,...

Baguette Me    Pickle Banh Mi    Beyond the Baguette   

Tustin is dense with great restaurants, having perhaps OC's most eclectic collection of eateries that include not just the original location of the preeminent (and now increasingly ubiquitous) izakaya known as Honda Ya, but also Cream Pan, one of...

The new Cronut — could it be the “avocado toast” at the new Dominique Ansel bakery, a trompe l’oeil confection of avocado ice cream, frozen ricotta and shortbread that looks more like the real thing than the actual avocado toast on offer? The ice...