Plumeria Cafe By Stacks Yummily Expands South County’s Hawaiian-Breakfast Empire

French toast by Stacks Stacks Pancake House has opened a new branch in Newport Beach. It’s the fifth in Orange County for the Hawaiian breakfast chain if you count Plumeria Cafe by Stacks in Laguna Niguel. On the menu here as it is at the other...

The Vox Kitchen has taken over the spot vacated by “Asian-Latin Street Food” restaurant Pango in Fountain Valley. The Vox offers small plates such as spicy shrimp wonton in spicy sauce, Taiwanese tofu with preserved egg, and sautéed Brussel...

EMC Seafood and Raw Bar, the popular Koreatown seafood restaurant and oyster bar, has opened its long-awaited Irvine store. Development began last year at the space vacated by Elephant Bar. Irvine is EMC’s third restaurant and like the other EMC’s...

At Quan Mii, you can have your bánh xèo with the usual sweet-and-sour nuoc cham, or dribbled with the Sriracha-like bottled sauce the restaurant has trademarked with its own name. No matter which you choose, (or heck, why not both?) the...

Sandwiches are like one of the year’s best picture Oscar contenders: Everything, everywhere, all at once. Within a recent 24-hour span, I admired the contrast of soft-scrambled eggs and spicy-sweet fried chicken on a brunch sandwich at Distrito...