June is gone. And there goes half of 2015. But, my oh my, was that a busy month for new restaurants. We saw and wrote about a dozen new restaurants opening, including a UK-based milkshake shop shaking up HB, Mitsuwa Costa Mesa finally getting a beer bar, and a new breakfast joint hatching up in Downtown Fullerton. What will this new month and the rest of the year bring?
In the meantime, here's our monthly roundup of open-and-shut cases we wrote about in this thing we call a food blog.
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RESTAURANT/VENUES OPENED IN JUNE:
Grits, Fullerton
Pom N Olive, Costa Mesa
Padre, Long Beach
Cream, Irvine Spectrum
Baos Hog, Garden Grove
Mendocino Farms, Irvine
Hikari Poki Bar, Lake Forest
Porthole Chip Shop, Newport Beach
Shakeaway, Huntington Beach
New Japan Beer Co., Costa Mesa
OPM Restaurant N Lounge, Huntington Beach
Piadina, Tustin
RESTAURANT/VENUES CLOSED IN JUNE:
Pinot Provence, Costa Mesa
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Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.