Restaurant Roll Call for October 2011

• You guys obviously don't know the history of the place, but hey: if you want to dine at a place that hosted a farewell party for a mobster on his way to the pen, be my guest!

• Agreed. If I didn't go to places that allowed Republicans or Housewives- I'd never leave the house.

• I would stick to the quality of the food as I'm sure there are a few taquerias that Loretta and her fat ass sister cleaned out in their day... I would never hold that against the restaurant. 

• I didn't write the story, genius!

• A real pro. You're late with a story -- beaten by the OC Register. You get the details wrong and then attack a reader for expressing his views. I hope your doctor, lawyer, and Indian chief have more professional skill.

• It did NOT close and I enjoy the food, as does your bud Jeff over at OCR. Their hassle is with the Irvine Company and the lease, not a lack of customers. Just what we need in Newport, another gym and a "fast casual" resto.

• Got a post coming up tomorrow about it

• you guys missed Boiling Point in Irvine, in the shopping center behind Dennys

• You have the strangest tastes, sometime. The Ritz had bad food, and is where Mike Carona and other scumbags used to/still roam. It's part of an OC that deserves to fade away.

• Did the Ritz really close?  The Register broke the story a few days ago that the evil Irvine Company would be booting it out of the space it has occupied for several decades on Newport Center Drive.  But I thought I recall that the lease wouldn't expire for some time before that happened.  I really hope the Ritz reopens elsewhere.  There's got to be room here in the land of glitzy shallow emporiums like AnQi and lines-out-the-door Taiwanese bakeries for several true "special occasion" "business lunch" "old school" restos like Ritz. 

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