The name, a portmanteau or “bar” and “bodega” (the term New Yorkers often use for their local corner stores), and concept is ...

In 2022, a small and short-lived fire at Mint Desi Craft Cuisine in Laguna Hills forced the Indian-Pakistani restaurant to postpone its grand reopening. Now after nearly three years, the halal ...

After a year, it became a critic’s darling. So, it’s bittersweet that he’s closing his Laguna Hills restaurant at the end of August, but he’s embraced a second brilliant idea: Move the ...

The minute I stepped into Mint Indian Restaurant in Laguna Hills, I knew I was in for a treat. The place smelled subtly of roasted meat and spices. After I sat down at a table nearest the kitchen ...

The old Jolly Roger building in downtown Laguna Beach has been waiting for some ... and has expanded instead toward the hills—Anaheim Hills, that is—with his newly opened Canyon restaurant. Rich ...