Review: Tamarindo brings a sip of Baja’s Valle de Guadalupe to San Clemente

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   

“Here, try some of this,” my partner says, handing me a jar of charred habanero salsa. “Maybe this will help.” I take the blackened salsa and dab it onto the flatbread. I chase it with a swig of mezcal. The flatbread at Chaak Kitchen doesn’t...

It’s probably not right to have visions of cuisine when exercising, but it is excusable, I believe, when that food is served at Taco Mesa. One, it is right down the street from the gym I go to, and two, it is a miracle I don’t think about this...

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...

It used to be a Carl's Jr. Then Lani Grille moved in around 2006, trying its best to fill the grand space, the biggest dining room in a restaurant-heavy island at the northwest corner of Bristol and Sunflower. Lani offered Asian-inspired...