The Whole Pita a.k.a. The Greek Island Grille a.k.a. Thasos

Go Greek Yogurt isn’t another frozen yogurt joint. Yes, it does do frozen yogurt, but it isn’t all it does. It specializes in savory dishes based on yogurt. One dish has the yogurt topped with Greek sundried tomatoes, pine nuts, Greek crumbled...

There's been a slew of new Mediterranean eateries invading our southern borders lately. Luna Grill, a San Diego-based chain that calls itself a “kabobery,” opened not just one but two locations recently (Irvine and Lake Forest). Then there's...

Kentro is unlike any Greek restaurant I've ever been to: There are no Hellenic-styled fonts or idyllic pictures of seaside Santorini. Walking in, you'd swear it was a newfangled yuppie gastropub or some sort of uppity wine bar. If it weren't for...

With all due respect to the Cheesecake Factory and P.F. Chang's, the past few years have seen a renaissance for Irvine Spectrum's food scene. Don Bren's most accessible and populist retail shopping center hasn't experienced such a noticeable...

When I look back on summer 2021 — when the Delta variant upended hopes for the pandemic’s denouement, when cultural strains stretched to near-breaking in the barely United States — I’ll remember disappearing for a couple of happy hours into the...