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Orange County

Theme Park Orange County

Orange County Coffee Worth Seeking

On Orange County visits in the aughts, I drove out of my way to drink coffee at Kéan Coffee in Newport Beach. Kéan co-founder Martin Diedrich has a family connection to coffee that now...
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Turkish Food Anaheim

Koftegi Iskender

Mehmet Kaplan is from Cappadocia and spent his formative years in Istanbul, becoming a chef and culinary tour guide. He and wife/partner Lisa Matarazzo shifted Al Sanabel Bakery into a higher gear when they...
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Pasta Orange County

Ocean At Main Dungeness Crab Cavatelli [CLOSED]

Craig Strong is the latest chef to downsize from fine dining. Don’t get me wrong. The longtime STUDIO at Montage Laguna Beach chef hardly turned his back on premium ingredients or flair. However, he’s...
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Coffee Orange County

Common Room Roasters Cappuccino [MOVED TO LONG BEACH]

Melbourne born roaster Ed Moffatt opened Common Room Roasters last year with Jeremy Creighton in a Newport Beach industrial park near Hoag Health Center. They roast beans behind glass on a Joper machine and...
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Juice Orange County

Toast Kitchen + Bakery Passion Fruit Sugar Cane Juice

Sugar cane juice is known in Vietnamese as nước mía. I have a good memory of snagging a bag from a street vendor on a dream-like stroll through Hanoi in 2005. Since my initial...
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Vietnamese Food Orange County

Grandpa’s Kitchen Dry Noodles 168 Phnom Penh Fresh Noodles

“Dry noodles” are a bit of a misnomer. This menu description, which I’ve seen at many Asian restaurants, just means that the noodles aren’t served in soup. Nobody would mistake the namesake noodles at...
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