Restaurant Marin Is Noah Blom's Throwback to a More Wholesome, Simpler Time

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • October 26, 2016
Noah Blom, who now has two restaurants at Costa Mesa's SOCO, cooks everything with wood—and I do mean everything. The four-layered cakes? Baked in an oven with a crackling fire at the back. The fries? Cooked in a cast-iron pot heated by burning...
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