Pueblo Is Costa Mesa's Tapas Town

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • January 22, 2015
OC is haunted by the ghosts of failed Spanish concepts. In the idylls of Ladera Ranch, there was once a short-lived but well-meaning restaurant called Picante whose specialty was paellas baked in pans an acre wide. A few years later, a Spain-based...
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