Bruster’s Real Ice Cream, a chain based out of Pittsburgh, has opened in Orange, their fourth OC location. Other locations include Huntington Beach, Cypress, and Garden Grove. Specialty flavors include Deep Dish Apple Pie and Boston Cream Pie.
510 N Tustin St, Orange, CA 92867
Campitelli Cookies, the Brea-based family-owned cookie and sandwich shop, has opened a new store in Placentia. Along with cookies and sandwiches, stromboli and pepperoni rolls are served.
1029 E Imperial Hwy, Placentia, CA 92870
Pita 360 has opened in Cypress next to other fast casuals Piadina, Noodles and Company, and Little Fisherman’s. It’s a build-your-own joint with pitas, salads, and rice plates customizable with shawarma, kebob, gyro and falafel.
5895 Katella Ave, Cypress, CA 90630
Yang’s Braised Chicken Rice has opened in Tustin. It’s part of a chain that originated in Ji Nan, Shandong Province in 2011. There are more than 6,000 franchised locations across China, Australia, Japan and Singapore. The Tustin store is its first U.S. location. It serves only one dish: braised chicken rice. You can have it three ways: regular, authentic, or spicy.
13824 Red Hill Ave, Tustin, CA 92780
I Can Barbecue, an all-you-can-eat Korean BBQ restaurant, has opened in Irvine’s Oak Creek Shopping Center, next to Pizza One. Lunch prices are $16.99 per person; dinner, $24.99.
5781 Alton Pkwy, Irvine, CA 92618
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.