Rockfire Grill Has Created OC's Next Great Burger

Raj Syal, the Mumbai-born owner of Mission Viejo's Rockfire Grill, has made good on his plan to open a second Rockfire Grill in Santa Ana. What is Rockfire Grill? It's a burger joint that uses fresh-baked focaccia as buns. As I wrote in a recent...

April was a busy month of openings starting with Luna Kutsi, the Mexican restaurant that went into the old Memphis space in DTSA; to Bistro Papillote, the French bistro that replaced Seventh Tea Bar in The OC Mix. Without further ado, here's our...

A new restaurant in Huntington Beach called Rollrritto + Poke Bar serves—you guessed it—poke bowls and sushi burritos. Of the latter, there are seven in all, each one named after each of the Hawaiian islands, even the one tourists aren’t allowed...

Does the notion of a calzone crossed with a French dip sandwich sound like sheer gimmickry? Daniel Cutler runs with the idea and manages to transcend hokum at his Fairfax restaurant Ronan. He appears so confident in the deliciousness of his...

When people ask about the modern way of eating in Los Angeles, the succession of wildly variant small plates followed perhaps by a big, shared platter of meat, I sometimes refer them to Josef Centeno, who got the style started here when he was...