Eating My Way Through OC
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Eating My Way Through OC covers the best upcoming culinary spots in Orange County. Dive into the vibrant food scene with the author, where fresh, local ingredients meet innovative chefs and ocean views!
Eating My Way Through OC
29m ago
Honey's Kettle Fried Chicken
9537 Culver Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
Fresh from our visit to The Getty, we needed some nourishment after checking out their incredible collection. I'm no art buff, but I was impressed with everything I saw this afternoon in early January. There were paintings, sculptures, furniture, photographs, and gardens to take in. The views from this museum perched above Brentwood were almost as breathtaking as those inside the galleries.
After walking around for nearly four hours, we needed some nourishment before we tackled the roughly two-hour drive ..read more
Eating My Way Through OC
1w ago
Lodge Bread Company
8532 West Pico
Los Angeles, CA 90035
The holidays were over, and it was time to take a week off. Katie could only take a few days off because she's been slammed at work, so we decided to make one of those days an LA day. I had the bright idea of visiting The Getty, which I had never been to. Katie had to drop some plans off at Children's Hospital LA, after which the rest of the day was ours. We left OC at 8 a.m. and reached LA an hour later, taking advantage of lighter-than-average traffic conditions. I picked Lodge Bread Company as our first food stop of the day ..read more
Eating My Way Through OC
3w ago
Terrace by Mix Mix
3333 Bear Street #316
Costa Mesa, CA 92626
I can not remember the last time I had been to a mall. Shopping is not really my thing. When I need something, I ask Katie for it, and she goes on Amazon, and I usually have it the very next day. If online shopping was an Olympic sport, Katie would easily win the gold medal. It's her superpower, and all the packages on our porch daily are the proof. I only visit a mall when I eat at a restaurant. That was the case on a rare weekday off that Katie and I had together. I decided to check off a spot that has languished on my re ..read more
Eating My Way Through OC
3w ago
Fat Fish Sushi
20761 Lake Forest Dr.
Lake Forest, CA 92630
I have a complicated relationship with sushi. I like it, but I don't really seek it out. I've had some really expensive sushi, and while I appreciate it, I don't like it enough to justify paying a lot for it. An all-you-can-eat sushi option is a better option for me. I know some AYCE sushi places can be a little dicey, with inferior seafood, but I have not had any issues with subpar fish. My favorite AYCE sushi place is Sushi Damu in Tustin, but maybe Fat Fish Sushi would replace it. Read on to see.
My aunt Hiroko ..read more
Eating My Way Through OC
1M ago
Craft Burger Co.
1450 North Kramer Blvd.
Placentia, CA 92870
I miss the days when burgers were king. When I started this blog fifteen years ago, burgers were all the rage, and new burger spots were opening everywhere. Around ten years ago, the restaurant landscape shifted from burgers to chicken sandwiches. My top three burger spots in OC from back then have all closed; Burger Parlor, G Burger, and Fuddrucker's. I'll post my top three as of today at the end of this review. Will Craft Burger Company be on that list? Read on to find out.
Craft Burger opened its doors i ..read more
Eating My Way Through OC
1M ago
Rooster and Rice
15354 Alton Parkway
Irvine, CA 92618
The email arrived, and I almost deleted it. I saw the name Rooster and Rice and thought I could not write about another chicken sandwich. Then I paused because it said rooster instead of chicken, and I thought that was strange. Who's cooking up roosters in 2024? Just when I thought this chicken phenomenon couldn't get any more crazy. Luckily, I read a few lines down the page and realized it was just a restaurant named Rooster and Rice, and they were expanding to Southern California and wanted me to see what they were all abou ..read more
Eating My Way Through OC
1M ago
Stagecoach Country Roadhouse
763 South Main Street Suite 200 A
Orange, CA 92868
This has happened infrequently, but it has happened before during the run of this blog. I eat in a restaurant, write my review, and find out that the restaurant has closed for good. The few times this has happened, I had an inkling that things were amiss. That's how I felt when we left Stagecoach Country Roadhouse a few months ago.
Stagecoach might have done some research before opening here. This location appears to be cursed. Stagecoach would be the third restaurant to inhabit this space in just si ..read more
Eating My Way Through OC
1M ago
Taqueria El Zamorano
925 West Warner Ave.
Santa Ana, Ca 92707
I miss the OC Weekly. From the time I started this blog until now, that free paper I'd pick up outside my local liquor store would give me plenty of tips about where I should be eating. OC Weekly had the best collection of food writers ever assembled in OC. While my other favorite source for OC restaurant news, Orange Coast Magazine, highlights more mainstream/well-known restaurants, the OC Weekly usually showcased out-of-the-way, hole-in-the-wall spots. These restaurants are ones I would never have heard about and pl ..read more
Eating My Way Through OC
1M ago
Renata's Cafe Italiano
227 East Chapman Avenue
Orange, CA 92866
Downtown Orange is the hottest spot for restaurants in OC right now. In the last year or so, a bunch of popular restaurants from other parts of the county have opened up here: Bosscat Kitchen, Finney's Crafthouse, Pandor Bakery, Urth Caffe, and Snooze, an A.M. Eatery, to name a few. These join the old stalwarts like Haven Craft Kitchen, Citrus City Grill, Smoqued BBQ, and my favorite, Gabbi's Mexican Kitchen. With so many great spots in a condensed area, it's easy to overlook a couple restaurants like the one we woul ..read more
Eating My Way Through OC
2M ago
Carnitas Uruapan
2106 West 5th Street
Santa Ana, CA 92703
I always like it when we get new people at work. One reason is that I have been there for almost 36 years now, and any chance to change things is welcome at this point. Another reason is that there's a chance that this new person will become a friend, and we can bond over food. That happened when George showed up to replace our outgoing meat manager. We instantly connected with food; even better, he wanted to share one of his favorite places with me, Carnitas Uruapan in Santa Ana.
George and I met here at 9 a.m. on a Thurs ..read more