Park Avenue: Still a Reason to Go to Stanton

End-of-year lists like these are fun to do, but hard to write because it is always difficult to just pick five of anything, let alone restaurants in a year full of great meals. This year, I used the same measuring stick as last year: in picking my...

The Place: Ra Sushi, 2401 Park Avenue, Tustin, CA 92782;(714) 566-1700. The Hours: Mon.-Sat., 3-7 p.m. The Deal: $2 hot sake. $3 domestic beers. $4 well drinks, Corona, Sapporo, Stella Artois, and Tsingtao. $5 Kirin, Le Terre Chardonnay, Le Terre...

Thai Nakorn has suffered more knocks against it than the recently ousted Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra. Years ago, a developer coup d'etat booted this revered OC restaurant out of its original Buena Park location to make way for condos....

I can think of a handful of restaurants that has an on-site garden. But it's one thing to serve your customers vegetables you've grown yourself, and it's quite another to do so next to the planters in which you've grown them. At Il Garage, the...

Fast-food sushi. If there's a better food oxymoron out there, I think it'd have to be “veggie burgers.” But that's disingenuous of me to say. I've actually enjoyed more “fast-food sushi” than veggie burgers. Most of the time, it's Sushi Boy; not...