Costa Mesa's May Garden Gone; Replaced By Vegetarian Restaurant

By Edwin Goei Mon., Jun. 14 2010 at 8:30 PM

Categories: Now Open, Restaurant Closures

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Edwin Goei

Stefani Peterson of the OC Register reported that a few weeks ago Takashi Abe's Sea Smoke in San Clemente closed permanently. Then our buddy at OC Register's Food Frenzy blog, Niyaz Pirani, revealed the shuttering of Q Restaurant, the crawfish and funnel cake hole-in-the-wall that I reviewed not too long ago.

Both developments were unexpected, but really, not a surprise.

Edwin Goei

What did surprise me was finding out that May Garden (the Americanized Chinese/Taiwanese restaurant which has been doing business in Costa Mesa for what seems like eternity and a day), not only shuttered recently but was summarily replaced by Happy Family, a Chinese vegetarian restaurant which has two outlets, one of them on Colima Road in Rowland Heights.

I'm looking forward to trying Happy Family, having vaguely remembered that I had a good meal at the Rowland Heights restaurant once, but I will miss May Garden and Chef Eric Chen's special Taiwanese menu--his chilled Queen's chicken especially.

If anyone knows where he and his bird ended up, please chime in.

Happy Family, 1400 Bristol St. Costa Mesa, CA 92626

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