Spencer's Bistro Makes Gourmet Food for Cheap From a Buena Park Strip Mall

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • December 2, 2015
Spencer's Bistro is not in a location where you'd expect to find anything featuring the word bistro. It's behind a Del Taco in a gritty, treeless parking lot, next to a lawnmower repair shop and a liquor store in a dilapidated strip mall that...
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