Review: 7 new Mexican restaurants worth visiting in Orange County

The beer and wine program at Tamarindo is superb. Tamarindo is a new Mexican restaurant on San Clemente’s main drag. Opened in early May, it’s a beautiful new spot with a relaxed indoor/outdoor vibe. Sunlight streams into the dining room through a...

Oh, how I’ve missed mid-week day drinking. And lately I’ve been enjoying the day-drinking scene at Landers in San Clemente. It’s an interesting vibe, quite unlike anything else in OC. It’s located in that old building on the corner where El Camino...

This is the fifth edition of this guide — a roadmap to Orange County’s wildly diverse dining scene. Narrowing this list to 75 recommendations gets harder each year. Yes, this list is highly personal and subjective but also painstakingly...

Vine    A Restaurant    The Ranch Restaurant    Irenia    Water Grill    Broadway    Mastro's Steakhouse    Brick    Vaca    Arc    Taco María    Marché Moderne    Bourbon Steak    Hana re    Solita   

If you are thinking about dining at one of these restaurants this weekend, too bad. You already missed the bus. Pent-up demand coupled with limited capacity have made getting into some restaurants next to impossible. Feeling lucky? These are the...

A restaurant opened in Dana Point a few years ago called Bistro Provincia. It looked more or less like a Mexican restaurant, but the chef, Manny Diaz, served Eurocentric fusion fare. It was a loosely defined menu of French, Italian and pan-Asian...