Review: All'Acqua has bright Italian flavors

Counter Intelligence: Jonathan Gold reviews Don Dickman's Italian restaurant All'Acqua in Atwater Village.

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • March 13, 2015

All’Acqua is a buzzy place on a weekend night, cars spilling out of the parking lot, crowds milling, the soaring, open-kitchen restaurant, once the local branch of Acapulco, suffused with a happy roar. On cool nights, you can smell garlic,...

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Avocado Pizzas at Stonefire Grill in Irvine

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • March 30, 2008

Pizza isn't something you'll see very often on this blog. Don't get me wrong. I eat plenty of it. But this is Orange County, not Chicago or New York. Pho, tacos, and ramen we got in spades — just as good as those served in in Vietnam, Mexico and...

10 Essential Places To Eat While You're Attending The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • April 11, 2014

This weekend is The Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. If you happen to be attending and you want to get out to see the town beyond what Shoreline Village has to offer, you will want to take a walk to Downtown (trust us: leave the driving to the...

Feast On Urban Kitchen Grill & Wine Bar's Suburban Splendor

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • August 23, 2012

There are still some of us in OC who can't locate Foothill Ranch on a map, or we think there's nothing there besides row after row of squat office parks, faceless warehouses and cookie-cutter tract homes. It's the model of modern suburbia, the...

Rockfire Grill Has Created OC's Next Great Burger

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • February 12, 2015

At first, Rockfire Grill is discombobulating. The music is reggae; the food is American; and the owner is originally from Mumbai and also owns the Tangy Tomato, a Chinese Indian restaurant in Artesia's Little India. That Raj Syal now makes burgers...

Jonathan Gold finds much to like at Rose Café in Venice — pepperoni pizza with honey, anyone?

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2016

You are in Venice. You have probably spent the last 20 minutes looking for a place to park. And you are walking into the Rose Café, a sprawling aircraft hangar of a restaurant that is somehow five times the size it appears from the street. Prints...