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...
Interview: M’lissa Roser (Portola Coffee Executive Director)
M’lissa Roser has experienced the full spectrum that coffee has to offer, from drinks that could double as dessert to beautifully roasted beans across the U.S. and in Scandinavia. She previously worked at cutting-edge...
Interview: chef Ryan Adams (Buttermilk Fried Chicken, Parallel Pizzeria + Three Seventy Common)
Chef Ryan Adams has been a driving force in the Orange County culinary community for years. He attended California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and worked for restaurants like One Market and Stars before...
Nuoc Mia Vien Tay Kumquat Sugar Cane Juice
Nuoc Mia Vien Tay is a rebranded Little Saigon sugar cane juice bar that dates to 1996, when Chuyen Nguyen and wife Thuy opened in a Westminster strip mall. I first wrote about Nuoc...
King Noodles 68 Hủ Tiếu Hoac Mi Kings Noodle
The owners at King Noodles 68 posted a surprisingly moving quote from Mahatma Gandhi on the bathroom mirror: “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Love as if you were to live forever.”...
Gunwhale Coastal Ales, Fusty Puckett + Extreme Brewers
Grapefruit, White tea, coffee, guava, ginger, raisins, rum-soaked oak chips, milk sugar, watermelon, fennel, cranberry, clove. That list gets you partway through all of the different ingredients that were on creative display at the...
