Shwack Cantina Does California Beach Culture and Mexican Food Right in San Clemente

Langres cheese with Champagne at Kippered Langres, the cow’s-milk cheese from the Champagne-Ardenne region in France, is often served with bubbles. At Kippered, the new wine bar in downtown Los Angeles, you can have those bubbles poured over your...

Bested!In which two food writers decide to check out our readersN assertion that JavierNs is OCNs best restaurant We may never know how JavierNs got enough votes to win Best Restaurant on our annual Best of OC ReadersN Poll this year. But Gustavo...

In the brave new Irvine, where there are more Taiwanese restaurants than there might be of any other cuisine, the pork chop rice called pai gu fan might be the most commonly eaten dish in the city. It's such a constant and essential representation...

The best thing to be said about the banal, post-structuralist name of Silver Lake’s new Bar Restaurant is that it is accurate. A bar and a restaurant do indeed coexist on the premises, separated by a wall but connected in the back by a curving...

The chicken schnitzel plate. Photo by Edwin Goei The logo for Newport Beach’s Helmsman Ale House is a sea captain with a beard of tentacles gripping a ship’s wheel. I don’t know what his official name is, but I can’t think of a better mascot for...