The Korean Barbecue at Go Goo Ryeo in Garden Grove Is Amazing, But Your Date May Not Approve

Garden Grove has too many of my favorites. It took me a few days to chop my first draft of this list down to the ten you see below. If you hadn't noticed, Garden Grove is that Venn diagram sweet spot where O.C.'s own Korean District overlaps with...

Marrakesh becomes Casablanca Marrakesh in Costa Mesa is now Casablanca The Restaurant, serving the same Maghreb cuisine as before. The menu includes traditional tagines and couscous. Belly dancers still provide entertainment on some nights. 1976...

Pork Is a Nice, Sweet MeatAnd you can cook your own on the screaming-hot shield-shaped thingies at Wako Honey Pig Korean restaurants have a monopoly on two things: creative names and the cook-your-own-meat barbecue joint. Wako Honey Pig? Yeah, it...

What happens when a successful teppanyaki restaurant decides to branch out without its showboating chefs? You get a yakiniku: the same dishes grilled over furious flames, now minus the flaming-onion volcanoes, the rat-a-tat-tat rhythms of metal...

To tourists, if Anaheim is New York, Buena Park is Chicago: Orange County's second city, the one they go to after they've exhausted all that Disney has to offer. But to locals, Buena Park is more than just the territory of Knott's and knights;...