Dining

Blazing-fast pizza

Feb 2, 2020

Blazing-fast pizza

In 2012, Blaze Pizza founders Elise and Rick Wetzel pioneered a blazing-fast way to cook pizza — right here in Irvine.

Independent restaurants

Nov 27, 2019

Independent restaurants

Our top picks for 2019 include a restaurant owned by last season’s winner of TV’s “Chopped,” a brewery with nearly 120 awards, and a bakery that makes macarons almost too cute to eat.

Urban Plates for lunch therapy

Feb 26, 2019

Urban Plates for lunch therapy

The steaks are grass-fed. The chicken is free-range. The fish is pole caught. But it’s what Urban Plates does with these ingredients that is special.