Review: Can Taste of Beauty raise the bar for vegetarian dining in Orange County?

Critic Brad A. Johnson says this new fine dining vegetarian restaurant in Fountain Valley is pretty, and he’s been wishing for a great new vegetarian restaurant, but…
Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • July 22, 2021
“Do you prefer vegan or just vegetarian?” the woman on the other end of the phone asks when I call to make a reservation at Taste of Beauty, a new Chinese fusion vegetarian restaurant in Fountain Valley. Open only a couple of months, the...
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