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?I've stopped trying to understand how some videos on YouTube can get hundreds of millions of hits, while others languish; but it's not hard to see how this simple video...
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?Surely after headlines about fast food bans in lower-income neighborhoods, you've heard the argument that poorer people consume the most fast food and are more likely to become obese. Correlations...
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Edwin Goei?At my count, Irvine has about eight pho/Vietnamese restaurants. Before long, this number will increase to 11, with new entrants La Pho in Quail Hill, Pho Saigon Pearl at...
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Restaurant Closures
Edwin Goei?Chaparosa Grill at The District in Tustin has closed. When it was open, the place was noted for its Caribbean totems, color-splashed walls, and numerous ceiling fans that swoop...
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Flickr user blmurch?The last time you ate out, how many people at your table asked for water? Probably most of them, right? Findings by a market-research firm that tracks restaurant...
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?We don't usually write posts on special menus because if we did, we'd end up doing it all the time. That is, of course, unless we feel like it, especially...
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http://www.sauvageberlin.com/?Newton's law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. So in what seems like a reaction to the modernist/molecular gastronomic bombast of Ferran Adria and...
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Photo from Boiling Point Website?Just in time for the cold snap (it'll be in the 60's by the end of the week), the Taiwanese hot pot restaurant called Boiling Point...
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Restaurant Roll Call
SWSH Facebook?Today, as we do every month, we take a look at what's new and what's passed on in OC's eating scene. The past 31 days saw not one, but...
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?In the battle of sushi versus foie gras, sushi wins. Or so says the Michelin Guide, which has decreed that Japan has more top restaurants than France for the first...
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Sweet, Sweet Sweets
Edwin Goei?Would you rather not give out boring old Snickers and M&M's this year? You want to be the special house on the block that has stuff that no one...
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SWSH Facebook?So did you attend that Chef Hung official grand opening today? Turns out it wasn't the only one at Diamond Jamboree. SWSH, the shabu shabu bar directly above Chef...
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Professorsalt.com?Remember the news that Mozza in Newport Beach might have their liquor license taken away? Much ado about nothing.Last week, the Newport Beach Planning Commission was unanimous in its vote...
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