Restaurant Roll Call for October 2012

Let's get to it, shall we? Here's the Restaurant Roll Call for September: our monthly run-down of what we've noticed opening and closing. Slow month? Well, in terms of restaurant closures, that's a good thing. See also: Restaurant Roll Call for...

Considering nearby Irvine has no shortage of Korean soondubu (soft tofu) restaurants, you might not have noticed that Tustin's lone soft tofu restaurant, HK Tofu N Grill, is now gone, replaced by a Japanese All-You-Can-Eat sushi bar called Kami...

The new NEM restaurant only has three letters in its name and only four items in its menu. This is a roll specialist and it's setting its sights on the seemingly untouchable dominance of Brodard.  Just like at Brodard, NEM's nem nướng cuốn, a...

Time for another restaurant roll call, folks, our monthly blog post that summarizes what's new and what's extinct. The big news was Surfas. Dave called it the “F.A.O. Schwarz for cooks and chefs” and after a few fits and starts, it debuted their...

Our monthly roll call is a little late, but here it is: what we observed on this thing called a food blog. There were several openings this month, with a lot of them in Newport Beach. Our short roster of German restaurants became even shorter when...