Here were are again at the end of another month, which means it's time for our monthly roll call of open-and-shut cases. The big news this month was the sudden closure of Rainforest Cafe at South Coast Plaza, which, for the record, won't be the location of OC's first Din Tai Fung–the McDonald's that was also recently closed upstairs will.
Here's the rest of the list.
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RESTAURANTS/VENUES OPENED IN JULY
Pho Banh Mi Che Cali – Garden Grove
Tofu King – Irvine
Thanh – Santa Ana
Tea Room – Newport Beach
Monster Sushi – Tustin
Lark Creek – Newport Beach
RESTAURANTS/VENUES CLOSED IN JULY
Rainforest Cafe – Costa Mesa
Asiana Cafe – Fullerton
Jinya Ramen – 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.