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Orange County’s robust dining scene has been on a steady rise with big-name newcomers, very familiar chefs, and buzzy strip mall finds alike. The county, some 3.5 million people strong, was already known for its taquerias, Vietnamese food, and coastal dining enclaves. Still, the region is growing in seemingly a dozen new directions at once. […]

For the last 15 years, Debbie Lee has been waiting for modern Korean cuisine to have its moment in the sun. Back in 2010, the veteran Korean American chef opened Ahn-Joo — an alternative romanization of anju, which translates to “drinking food” in Korean — first as a food truck, and later on as a […]

Bäco Mercat wasn’t the first Josef Centeno restaurant I fell in love with (that’s Lot 1), though it’s probably the one I’ve missed most — a low-key hangout rooted in puffy, pita-adjacent flatbread surrounding all manner of flavorful fillings. Centeno’s revived it (sort of), along with the more recently closed Tex-Mex favorite, Bar Ama, and […]







