Sucking in the '70s

The new Tomato Café and Grill in Fullerton reminds me of another restaurant I reviewed five years ago called Itriya Cafe. Both boasted a menu that had Korean dishes as well as Italian. If you couldn't decide between Korean spicy pork barbecue and...

In past issues of this infernal rag, we've called for the annexation of Artesia (and its prettier sister Cerritos) as part of OC to claim Magic Wok, arguably the best Filipino restaurant in California. Sometimes confused with the Chinese-takeout...

Those still traumatized by that climactic scene from Lord of the Flies should be warned that the Recess Room's signature dish is a deep-fried pig's head. Yes, a pig's head—with its tongue, teeth, gums, eyeball, snout and ear intact—served to you...

I spend a lot of time eating in the San Gabriel Valley, always learning and ever amazed by the breadth at hand: Beijing duck, Uighur lamb polo, Sichuan ginger rabbit, Hong Kong-style steamed fish, Taiwanese beef noodle soup, on and on and on. Over...

New Qingdao Restaurant    Zhou's Guilin Rice Noodle    1919 Lanzhou Beef Noodle   

Long Beach’s Anaheim Street is to Cambodians what OC’s Bolsa Avenue is to Vietnamese. And for close to eight years, one of the most successful and beloved restaurants there was Sophy’s Thai and Cambodian. But in late 2008—a year after the largest...