(Gerry Furth-Sides, all photos courtesy Nancy Newman Photography) The Anaheim GardenWalk hosted its second annual Chef Challenge Cook-off on Sunday, October 14th, from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sponsored by DiningOut Magazine, top chefs from seven notable Orange County restaurants competed for best-in-show honors with their s...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) When I was invited to Whittier’s Uptown Whittier restaurant District, billed as the “new foodie hub of Southern California,” I was skeptical until I saw the name of Mexican-Japanese American Katsuji Tanabe as executive chef of the NIXON CHOPS & WHISKEY. The service, food and atmosphere...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Whittier was full of surprises, all good, starting with how easy it was to get there. The Whittier Museum was next on the list. Like many, I’m sure, after visiting for the day we also now understand that the Whittier museum is not the library is in Yorba Linda, birthplace of Nixon. Nixon [&hel...
At first an item that came across our desk seemed a totally zany idea: Munk Pack’s ready-to-eat Oatmeal Fruit Squeezes to time with “National Breakfast Month” and the back-to-school season. But much to our surprise, the product tastes great (it could have a little more texture, true), so much more satisfying th...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) You would think that fried chicken was just invented the way is has become a “culinary darling, ” but who cares as long as it lasts. So it had to happen and New Orleans happily has done it first, a National Fried Chicken Festival (FCF) presented by Raising Cane’s that attracted a record [&...
Following its ninth successful run on the Paramount Pictures Studios backlot, The Times is adding a second session in Costa Mesa to focus on the thriving dining scene and award-winning restaurants in the heart of Southern California. The LA TIMES Taste debuts in Costa Mesa will take place at The MET over three days, Oct. [&hel...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) American mainstream chefs known for their ethnic or ethnic-inspired cuisines, Mary Sue Milliken (Border Grill) and Suzanne Goin (AOC, Luque), represented the “ethnic good segment” of restaurants in the The Good Food Media Network’s recently released annual Good Food 100 Restaurants list. T...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) Private-chef-turned-restaurateur Helene Henderson’Malibu Farm in Newport Beach is officially open! White-washed and sunny as the original in Malibu, a brick sidewalk leads the easy path to the indoor-outdoor restaurant, ice cream shop and store. It fits so snugly into a newly remodeled, carefully c...
360 DEGREE COMMUNICATIONS IS PROUD TO ANNOUNCE A SPECIAL SCREENING EVOLUTION OF ORGANIC Q&A WITH DIRECTOR MARK KITCHELL Moderated by ROBERT EGGER – LA KITCHEN This screening is free and open to the public on a first come, first served basis. Validated free parking at LAPL. Other SoCal Screenings for Evolution of Organi...
Celebrate regional American National Cheeseburger Day When the cheese was added to a hamburger it was a big deal. Honoring the 1926 invention of The word “cheeseburger” is a shortened form of the phrase “cheese hamburger”, meaning a hamburger with cheese. The original word hamburger arguably comes from the town of Ha...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 