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Ah, Laguna Beach. If there were a rallying point where the high-concept restaurants flock, it'd be here. There are at least three new restaurants slated for Laguna's coast this year, all of them fit for a town that seems to demand a new restaurant...

One of the most memorable things you can eat at Charlie Palmer at Bloomingdale's South Coast Plaza isn't the foie gras or the steaks; it's the sliders. The bite-sized burgers boast a Kobe-style patty rich enough to match their glossy,...

Let's get down to it, shall we? Here's our monthly roll call of what we like to dub “open and shut cases”. This list compiles what we've observed over a month that saw the momentous opening of Batali's long awaited Mozza in Newport Beach and...

Recession? What Recession? Charlie Palmer fires the burner at South Coast Plaza If there's a barometer to gauge when not to open a credit-limit-breaching, forget-the-mortgage kind of restaurant, Charlie Palmer has chosen to ignore it. The man—a...

Laguna Beach is the New York of OC's restaurant scene. If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. Proof: Katsuya, that high-priced, high-concept sushi joint that has branches at LA Live and Brentwood, didn't last more than two years here....