Wacky Snacks: Rumba

It's been three years since I reviewed Pizzeria Ortica; two years since Chef Steve Samson left to start Sotto in LA. In that time a little place called Mozza opened in Newport Beach; Ecco debuted not far off at The Camp; and the irrepressible Il...

To the gentleman at Silver Trumpet who seated us on Thursday, Nov. 10: I owe you an apology. You see, I lied to you. As you showed me to my seat, you asked me politely, “You have the same last name as the OC Weekly food writer. Are you him?”...

A few years ago, I was asked to sit on the dissertation committee of a young woman whose academic obsession was cannibal movies and their place in the culture. I still don’t know as much about Lacanian theory as I probably should, but as it turned...

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The menu at Meizhou Dongpo, a new Sichuan restaurant in Irvine, looks almost like a children’s book. A dozen oversized pages are filled with big, beautiful photos. Nearly every dish on the menu is illustrated. I look around the room on my first...