Woo-hoo for Wahoo’s Fish Taco!

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • July 5, 2012
There’s a certain cynicism that a restaurant invites when it grows up and starts franchising. It’s almost as if having street cred and being a successful chain are mutually exclusive—you can’t be both. Not even our own OC-bred surfer den, Wahoo’s...
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