Tom's Foodie Blog

What Tom’s Foodie Blog is reviewing a chain restaurant? Yes I am, especially since Dave and Buster’s revamped their menu and kitchen operations, they deserve a second look.  I have been visiting Dave and Busters for several years now just to play games. Aside from a  a shifty experience with over-cooked chicken, hot wings and [...]

For the past two years I had been hearing a steady buzz about a restaurant called Chapter One: The Modern Local. This restaurant is located in the hipster chic Downtown Santa Ana, just down the street from The Playground. When we walked into the dining room, the mood was humming like a bee hive with  [...]

“This Wellington is bloody raw!” –Gordon Ramsay If you are going to yell at your Hell’s Kitchen contestants for not cooking the Beef Wellington correctly, then your Steak House better cook it perfect. This is the first thing I thought of after successfully making a reservation to Gordon Ramsay Steak at the Paris Hotel in [...]

Another restaurant that made it onto my 2012 restaurant bucket list is Wood Ranch BBQ in the Irvine Spectrum. Although this restaurant group is not new, it has been consistently reviewed as one of the better chain-BBQ places in Southern California. I wanted to see how it would rank against some of the BBQ Giants [...]

You can order anything from The Playground’s ever-evolving ingredient-driven menu, but no modifications! If you like your meat well done, bring your own.  This is the playful and creative Chef Centric attitude you find at the Playground. The Playground is the love child of owner Jason Quinn,  who catapulted to notoriety during the Great Food Truck [...]