The Playground & Clay Oven Team Up To Do “Play Oven” Pop-Up

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • July 9, 2012
It was two years ago that Jason Quinn, now famous (or is it infamous?) for his downtown Santa Ana restaurant The Playground, did his first interview here on this very blog. At the time, when I asked him “What cuisine that you are unfamiliar with...
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