Tra House's 'Twisted Vietnamese' Food Is Worth the Nightmare of Its Parking Lot

It’s been a rough couple of years. Far too many restaurants haven’t survived this pandemic, and I fear we haven’t seen the last of that heartbreak. It’s a tough business even in normal times. Very few restaurants live forever. Most don’t make it...

Happy Chinese New Year! Red envelopes and lion dances for all! If you want to celebrate at a Chinese restaurant, and I can’t see why you wouldn’t, here are a few places to ring in the Year of the Rooster.   Ask Jonathan Goldbot where to eat on...

Photo by Edwin Goei Alongside the cramped driveway of the Plaza Condominiums—one of Irvine’s towering mixed-use urban developments—wasn’t where I expected to find an unapologetically authentic Shaanxi-cuisine specialist, but there it stood, in the...

If it's true that Taiwanese cuisine is “disproportionately popular” in California, Irvine has to be the epicenter of that popularity. In OC's unofficial Taiwan Town, there are more Taiwanese eateries than there are McDonald's and Taco Bells...

Little La Lune is located on an unpretty part of Pacific Coast Highway, in a strip mall with less than 10 parking spots—and they're all taken. But stay in your car and wait with the air conditioning on, and soon, a few people will exit the...