Top Chef Masters Contestants Announced; O.C. Chefs Shut Out

Michael Voltaggio, the brooding champion of Top Chef Season 6, will be one of four celebrity chefs who will talk, and perhaps do a cooking demonstration, at the upcoming OC Fair. ] The younger Voltaggio (as you remember, his older brother, Bryan,...

You might remember Brian Huskey if you watched Top Chef: New Orleans. Me? I stopped watching the show two seasons earlier. So when this very paper broke the news that he was opening a restaurant in OC, it was the first time I'd actually heard of...

As Anne Marie hinted in a previous post, the first annual Newport Beach Wine and Food Festival officially starts today, culminating tomorrow with cooking demos by Richard Blais, winner of “Top Chef All-Stars”, Rick Moonen, “Top Chef Masters”...

From French bistros to fried-chicken joints, a look at the new restaurants chowhounds will be chattering about this autumn. Bicyclette Bistro République’s Walter and Margarita Manzke expand westward with a neighborhood French restaurant sure to be...

One of the first things I saw at Vaca, Amar Santana’s new Spanish restaurant across from South Coast Plaza, was the ham leg propped up on a proper jamonera, an L-shaped board with two metal stirrups specifically designed for displaying Spanish...