Tom's Foodie Blog

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 [...]

This blog post is about “The Winery” restaurant in Tustin, quite possibly the best restaurants in Orange County. I know this is a big claim, so I will tell my story and you be the judge. I normally provide the total score of the restaurant at the end of the review, but this time I [...]

Like any Friday at 11:00  in the afternoon, I am already thinking about what food I am going to eat for lunch.  So what does any good foodie do when he has a hankering for a Friday afternoon guilty food pleasure? The answer, scour social media for food truck met ups. My friend Alex was bragging, on Facebook, [...]

 Review of Dos Chinos Food Truck – The Stoner Burrito and the Garden Grove Taco I have been hitting the food truck stops in Orange County for the past year and have tried most of the trucks which stop at the Teller Food Truck Summit on Teller Avenue in Irvine (“AKA the Teller Cluster Truck”) on Teller Avenue [...]

Review of “The Matador” Restaurant in Fullerton’s Historic Downtown off Commonwealth -”At the Cross-Roads of Civilizations” The Matador Cantina located in the historic downtown district of Fullerton, just north of Commonwealth Avenue on Harbor (front side at least). But since this is a pedestrian friendly area, you typically walk in the back courtyards and alleys and [...]