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 Archive for the 'Lunch specials' Category1983 prices at Curry HouseJune 25th, 2008, 1:34 pm by jchinCurry House is rolling its prices back to 1983 levels today. The “customer appreciation” deal actually started yesterday — sorry for the late notice. You can still get it for dinner tonight!
Curry House specializes in Japanese-style curry, i.e. sweet, thick curry that’s much milder than Indian and Thai curries. O.C. locations are at Cypress (10953 Meridian Dr., #P) and Irvine (14407 Culver Drive). I went to the Cypress location for lunch today and it was packed. Got there at 11:11 a.m., about 20 minutes before opening, and there were already 14 people waiting outside. At 11:40 a.m., the restaurant was full and there was a line of 10 inside. The servers were incredibly efficient and cheery. My chicken katsu (breaded and deep fried cutlet) curry lunch was just $5, down from usual of $10.15. Where The Fish is De-lishJune 10th, 2008, 9:41 pm by PETER LARSEN, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTERWe’d driven by California Fish Grill in Cypress countless times without stopping, but on a sunny weekday off work recently, the missus and I decided to give it a try. From the outside, it looked like a fancier sit-down kinda joint, but upon walking into the nicely chilled restaurant, we discovered it was more on the fast-and-casual side of things. What to order? Well, the answer is in the name of the place — there are no steaks on this grill. The waitress at the counter said the white roughy with garlic butter sauce is a customer fave, so that seemed an easy choice. And I’ve always felt the other good test of a seafood restaurant is what they can do with a deep fryer, so the calamari and shrimp platter filled out the order.
The white roughy, which as you can see, comes with fries, cole slaw and bread, is a tasty deal at $7.49. It was moist and flaky without being fishy, meaty yet delicate, and simply prepared: charbroiled in the garlic butter, with maybe a dash of seasoned salt and cayenne pepper, it’s a meal that lets the natural goodness of fresh fish come through. Shin Sen Gumi: Robata-yakitori blissMay 23rd, 2008, 11:34 am by Kat "I eat 'til my pants hurt" Nguyen
I’ve been going to Shin Sen Gumi in Fountain Valley (arguably home of the best yakitori or Japanese skewered chicken in OC) since the day it first opened sometime in 2000 or 2001, I believe. I was working out of the Fountain Valley news bureau and was ecstatic that a new ethnic restaurant was coming to town. Actually, a bit too eager. I showed up that first day and walked in a few minutes before the 11:30 a.m. opening time and barged right into the middle of what appeared to be some sort of ceremony or group prayer. Oops. I took my sheepish behind back outside and when I was invited back in a few minutes later, everyone shouted at me. Of course, I quickly learned that it’s the traditional Japanese greeting to patrons: “IRASSHAIMASE!” I was hooked after a satisfying (and under $10) lunch of udon and a bowl of rice with tare negima or teriyaki chicken thigh skewers with green onion and even more so after sampling the bounty of dinner yakitori selections. Seven or eight years later, I’m still enamored with the loud, pub-style atmosphere and the deliciously chargrilled meats, like the shio negima (salted chicken thighs with green onion), tomato maki (bacon-wrapped cherry tomatoes — you know you want some), arabiki pork sausage, and the uber crunchy nankotsu (chicken cartilage). All for around two bucks a skewer… Sushi at the spaMay 21st, 2008, 5:57 pm by Kat "I eat 'til my pants hurt" Nguyen
Talk about an unusual location for a sushi bar — inside a swanky spa and fitness club surrounded by corporate skyrises. Christopher over at Splitends suggested we hit up The Retreat in Costa Mesa for lunch and he was so sure I wouldn’t have found the place that we decided to take one car over together. Good thing he did. I would have been driving in circles looking for the three-month old sushi bar hidden inside The Spa, near South Coast Plaza. Which brings me to the not-so-cool part: You either have to valet your car or park across the street in the structure, so there’s already a few bucks you can add onto your meal tab. (On the upside, I was later told you can get your valet parking stub validated, but there’s still the tip!) Once inside, you walk past the opulent spa lobby and straight into the small restaurant where the dark and velvety colored walls provide a stark contrast to the spa’s bright and gleaming marble. We bellied up to the sushi bar and asked for what the freshest fish was: Bigeye Tuna, Red Snapper, Toro or Spanish Mackeral was the immediate reply from the young sushi chef. The bigeye was such a luscious shade of deep crimson, we couldn’t resist. We didn’t expect to be presented with a beautiful sashimi rose … ADVERTISEMENT
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