Restaurant Roll Call for November 2011

So many restaurants opened this month, despite January being a notoriously slow month for the business. Irvine continues to see a boom in Asian eateries and Tustin is now home to an El Toro Bravo and their ginormous burritos. Here's our monthly...

This past month was a bruiser. So many restaurants and venues–some new, some old–went kaput. Some were already on life support since December (Assi Natural Market and Seasons of Japan), while other closures were a complete surprise (Chakra and...

NOW OPEN: Adya, Chef Shachi Mehra's contemporary Indian street food concept, has opened at University Center in Irvine. It's the second Adya restaurant for Mehra, who was previously the opening chef for Tamarind of London in Newport Beach. 4213...

The OC Restaurant Association came out with their final list of participants for the 2010 OC Restaurant Week taking place February 28th – March 6th. As it seems they signed on virtually every restaurant in existence, perhaps an easier thing to do...

Rich Mead, the self-described “IRS paper pusher” turned chef/restaurateur, is now in a public struggle with his landlord, The Irvine Company, to renew the lease on his Newport Beach restaurant.  Sage, which has been in business at Eastbluff...