I haven't been to Cortina's Italian Market in a while, but that doesn't mean I don't keep up with it. My brother-in-law swears by their subs, and I always get folks to get me goodies whenever they're there. And I was planning to swing by sometime soon, as the legendary Italian market is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year--but I'm going to have to wait like everyone else, because they just suffered a fire early this morning that's going to put them out of commission for weeks.

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Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles

Last summer, we reported that Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles would be opening in Anaheim. It is now this summer and we still aren't stuffing our faces with fried deliciousness. What gives?!

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If you're going to be drinking this summer down the Jersey Shore, at least you can be more confident that the shot of Lagavulin or Auchentoshan the bartender just poured you is actually high-end scotch, and not dishwater.

That's because the New Jersey Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control led a statewide raid on Wednesday, the culmination of a sting operation called Operation Swill in which plainclothes investigators went to 63 bars which had received complaints about mislabeled alcohol, ordered shots neat, and surreptitiously took samples away for testing. As a result, the ABC collected over a thousand open bottles of liquors from 63 license holders in 15 of New Jersey's 21 counties and subjected all of the contents to testing.

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Dave Lieberman

Walk into 320 Main on any Tuesday night, and you'll see Dave Castillo wearing an aloha shirt that seemingly sixty lorikeets had to die for. See, Tuesdays are tiki night at the cocktail capital of Orange County, and so the orders for tall glasses of rum with splashes of other stuff slide across the bar, with Castillo shaking and garnishing with aplomb. (320 Main doesn't go in for fruit salad on a stick, just so you know. Simpler is better.)

Don't get us wrong; we love a good Navy Grog or Three Dots and a Dash once in a (very long, massively hungover) while, but Castillo's signature drink, the Fifth Stage, is what's needed after a long day on the beach or in front of a spreadsheet.

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Flickr user rpeschetz

It may be pricey, but if you're both an oenophile and are bummed out that there's no Taste of Newport this year, the 10th Annual Newport Beach Wine Festival starts tonight and runs through Sunday at the Balboa Bay Resort.

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Start starving yourselves now. G Burger, the La Habra joint famed assembling the wild beast you see above, will open two new locations in Fountain Valley and inside the Tustin Market Place.

When you order a G Burger, named Best Burger by OC Weekly in 2011, you don't tell the server what you want on the sandwich. Instead, you tell him what you don't want. Say nada and you'll get this jaw-stretching pile-up of greens, tomatoes, onions, cheese, teriyaki-glazed onions, Portobello mushrooms, slaw, grilled pineapple, a fried jumbo egg, pastrami, avocados, chili and--oh, yes--bacon.

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Anne Marie Panoringan

"So what's new about these?" said our friend as the food came out. After 24 years of consistency with tacos, bowls and burritos, we were at Wahoo's inside Fashion Island having a beer (thank you, full bar), waiting for dinner. Turns out 2013 would be more than a silver anniversary for a quick-service brand started by three affable brothers back in 1988. The 25th of each month brought something to the masses. Back in January, it was a 25-cent sale of their fish taco. Next month, everybody's getting sunscreen from partner Ocean Potion. But May was about the Citrus Slaw Taco.

Our group dined family-style with Mingo Lee, one third of the founding members, grilling him for information as rice, beans, chips and guac arrived. He explained the purpose of our visit.

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Anne Watson/Front Porch Pops

Exciting news for fans of Erin Whitcomb's Front Porch Pops, OC's traveling popsicle cart known for its refreshingly awesome flavors such as Balsamic Strawberry Creamsicle, Mango Chili and Ain't Misbehavin' Mojito.

The homegrown company is going brick-and-mortar with a new shop in Old Towne Orange, expected to open next month.

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You know how we said that Pieology has plans to rapidly expand yesterday? Well so does Spin Pizza, a similiar concept that's already big in Kansas City, and has franchise dreams of its own. And it starts in OC--Orange, to be exact--with its inaugural store in California.

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With all the hoopla and controversy over the first firing of the 3-D-printed gun, here's something everyone can agree is less controversial and astronomically cooler: NASA is funding research on 3-D printed food!

Yup! To feed astronauts that might one day travel to Mars, the space agency has selected a Texas-based firm to develop a 3-D printer that will create a pizza from scratch using powdered ingredients mixed with water and oil. The printer will presumably turn this food toner into something edible, starting with the dough layer, working up to the sauce, cheese, and protein. The proposed machine has been inevitably compared to the food replicator on Star Trek!

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