Tustin's Lost Bean Coffeehouse Is How Starbucks Should've Been

Mess Hall opened in June inside the new Flight business complex at Tustin Legacy, where the surrounding office towers are still zero percent occupied. Despite the lack of onsite foot traffic yet, Mess Hall already draws a good crowd. The sprawling...

The Lost Bean, Tustin's “organic” coffee house, the one I described as so organic it actually offers “organic water”, is expanding. No, it hasn't gone Starbucks. It is growing, appropriately enough, rather organically by taking up the space next...

Photo from @messhallmarketoc IG. Some of the vendors at Mess Hall Market at Flight in Tustin has opened. The new food hall features these tenants: The Lost Bean, Slapfish, Drink Bar, Fonda Moderna, Saigon Kitchen, Big Parm, Vaka Burger, The...

I think all of us who write and review restaurants get this question asked at least once, “Aren't you worried that you'll some day run out of restaurants to write about?” The answer is, of course, that it's impossible. Just as nurses will always...

As you may recall, earlier this year, there was news that after being banned into oblivion, unsaleable stocks of Four Loko were being recycled into ethanol. Now comes the video of the actual process from one of the companies doing it.  It shows...