Restaurant Roll Call for February 2016

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • March 1, 2016
If it didn’t feel like summer outside, I wouldn’t believe it’s already March. So let’s march on to do our monthly recap of what we saw opening and closing in the local restaurant scene. There was more poke, of course, but also a second outpost of...
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