Career College of California (CCC) is hosting a Family Healthy Eating Event in Santa Ana on Wednesday, April 29th, 2015, from 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.
Learn how to eat right, cook healthy, and get your whole family in shape! Continue reading
Category Archives: Food
The DTSA Farmers’ Market turns one
City of Santa Ana, Downtown Orange County
Community: The DTSA Farmers’ Market Turns One
The DTSA Farmers’ Market is celebrating its one year anniversary!
A community-oriented, chef-driven certified farmers’ market – here’s a recap of what year one looked like:
• The DTSA Farmers’ Market launched on March 27, 2014, providing the community with a weekly event with organic produce, artisan foods, live local music, and a free kids’ craft table.
• In May they began to offer a “Friends of the Market Program” to residents and shoppers. With a DTSA Farmers’ Market tote bag, you can get discounts all over town, every Thursday. This has helped to create a destination feeling for the downtown area, with the market being one of a number of stops for shoppers. Continue reading
Free book giveaway and potluck in Tustin on 4/18 for needy families
Reading books and helping others is super incredible! Operation Warm Wishes Presents: The Incredible Adventure of Giving-Book Drive and Community Potluck.
Join Operation Warm Wishes, Girl Scouts Troop 2460, and the community as we host “An Incredible Day of Giving Book Give-Away” for motel children, foster children, underprivileged children, and struggling families on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at Pepper Tree Park in Tustin (230 W. First Street Tustin, CA 92780), Noon to 3:00 p.m.). Continue reading
Get together at the DTSA Farmers’ Market set for tonight
A Downtown Santa Ana Get Together is set for tonight, March 26, 2015, from 5-8pm at 307 N. Spurgeon St., in DTSA.
This will be an opportunity to meet and share the good news and cheer with your fellow downtown artists, businesses, residents and friends. Continue reading
Support the Santa Ana Boy Scouts at a pancake breakfast today
Support Santa Ana’s historic Boy Scouts Troop 28, at a pancake breakfast today, from 8 to 10 am, at the First Congregational Church located at 2555 Santiago, in the Park Santiago neighborhood.
The pancake breakfast included freshly made fluffy pancakes, savory breakfast sausages and scrambled eggs. Continue reading
Death Of Diego’s Open Mic Tuesday/Band Nights set for Tuesdays in February
Death Of Diego’s Open Mic Tuesday/Band Night! February, 2015
As you may have heard Diego’s restaurant is shutting down, so in February we really need to celebrate the good memories we have had. The food has been awesome, the drink specials were great and the staff always nice and friendly.
We will have 2 bands every week and open mic for any kind of expression, no censorship. Continue reading
Try five bites for ten bucks at DTSA’s Savor Santa Ana on 2/12
What can $10 buy you? Well it can buy you two pepperoni pizzas at Fast 5 Pizza, or two delicious tortas at El Pollo Norteno, or even two awesome hamburger combos at In N’ Out Burgers.
But on Thursday, Feb. 12, 2015, from 5 to 9 pm, that same ten dollar bill can buy you five bites of your choice from over 25 restaurants and eateries in Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA) at this year’s Savor Santa Ana event. Continue reading
Is the Dough Exchange’s failure a sign of things to come in DTSA?
“In late 2014, Jason Quinn, the chef-owner of The Playground, opened Dough Exchange next door to his critically acclaimed restaurant in downtown Santa Ana. But the Fourth Street bakery has struggled to generate foot traffic and sales, forcing Quinn to toss out freshly baked goods and breads every night,” according to the OC Register.
In attempt to resuscitate the storefront, Quinn told the Register on Thursday that he’s going to offer baked goods for free starting Friday. Dine-in customers will be limited to two items such as doughnuts, pastries, and meat pies. In exchange for the free food, Quinn is asking customers to fill out a form that provides him feedback on what they like and dislike about the food and prices.
This is pretty hilarious considering that Quinn famously has rejected all input from his customers! His philosophy has been that he is the Chef and you will eat what he cooks the way he cooks it – your opinion be damned. Continue reading
Cholula’s Bakery has reopened
Cholula’s Bakery was expected to open Wednesday, after enduring a debacle over holiday sweet bread laced with a synthetic drug that sickened more than 40 people and that shut its doors for nearly two weeks, according to the O.C. Register.
What this means is that the Orange County Health Department has cleared Cholula’s – and they are now in compliance with all of the O.C. Health Codes. Continue reading
More new restaurants opening up in Santa Ana
Blackmarket Bakery’s Apple cobbler with vanilla ice cream and caramel
There are several new restaurants opening up in Santa Ana, according to the O.C. Register.
One new restaurant is already open – Panini Cafe, at the MainPlace Mall. They sell healthy Mediterranean food. I have visited the Irvine location several times. Their chicken kabob lunch is the bomb! But their panini sandwiches are also very good and I love their lentil soup!
El Mercado Modern Cuisine: The operators behind the two Anepalco’s restaurants in Orange are opening a new fine dining concept in downtown Santa Ana. Executive Chef Daniel Godinez, who blends Mexican and French cuisine at Anepalco’s, is developing the El Mercado menu. El Mercado will be a full service restaurant, with a modern approach. Scheduled to open by the end of March. Will be located at 301 N. Spurgeon St. Continue reading
The Cholula Bakery Rosca de Reyes bread had a synthetic cannabinoid in it!
Santa Ana Police Department
Advisory: UPDATED Test Results in Cholula’s Bakery Investigation
The Santa Ana Police Department has been contacted by the Orange County Sheriff’s Crime Lab with results of the Cholula Bakery beards sent in for analysis.
Results returned positive for JWH122 classified as a “synthetic cannabinoid,” but is better described as a synthetic cannabimimetic because it mimics some of the symptoms of cannabis consumption. Continue reading
The Ninjas With Appetite Asia-Mex Food Truck now has a restaurant in DTSA
The Ninjas With Appetite Asia-Mex Food Truck has opened a restaurant at 5th and Broadway, located at 318 W. 5th st., in DTSA.
Their dishes include like home-brewed teriyaki sauce drizzled over grilled beef, wrapped in a tortilla with garlic fried rice and cilantro. They also offer Yummy Bowls, Tasty Teriyakos, and “Nacho” Average Teriyaki. Continue reading
Will the new Norms Restaurant owner improve the Santa Ana location?
After more than 65 years of family ownership, Southern California’s iconic Norms restaurant chain has been sold. The flashing neon and 24-hour sizzling grills have been a Los Angeles institution since Norman Roybark opened his first location near the bustling music scene at Sunset and Vine in 1949 and will continue on under new owner Jim Balis, according to L.A. Magazine.
The Norm’s in Santa Ana has been on the corner of 17th and Main St. for as long as I can remember. They are open 24 hours and are always busy. Service can be spotty, as noted in Yelp, where they have only 2.5 stars. But their breakfast meals are awesome and I love that they serve soup and salad with many of their dinners. And you can’t beat their half a sandwich with soup and salad lunch. Continue reading
There was a synthetic drug in Cholula’s Bakery’s Rosca de Reyes bread
Santa Ana Police Department
For Immediate Release: January 9, 2015
Contacts: nstanfield@ochca.com, (714) 834-2178; abertagna@santa-ana.org, (714) 245-8029
Advisory: Foodborne Illness Investigation at Cholula’s Bakery
(Santa Ana) – One January 6, 2015 the Orange County Health Care Agency closed Cholula’s Bakery in Santa Ana and began a foodborne illness investigation after receiving several reports of illness related to eating Rosca de Reyes Bread distributed by the bakery on January 5 and 6, 2015.
Based on preliminary laboratory results from product samples that indicated the presence of a synthetic drug in the bread, the investigation will be handed back to the Santa Ana Police Department for criminal investigation. Confirmatory laboratory results are expected in one to two weeks. Persons who believe they have consumed the tainted bread are encouraged to contact the Santa Ana Police Crimes Against Persons Unit at (714) 245-8390. Continue reading
Christmas day pancake breakfast celebration and laundry day for the homeless
Operation Warm Wishes Presents: The Gift of Giving – Christmas Pancake Breakfast Celebration and Laundry Day for the Homeless and Families in Need.
We are taking over a local Laundromat in Orange County California (Good Choice Laundry-1620 East 1st Street, Santa Ana, CA 92701) to serve the homeless and families in need in a very special way on Christmas.
We are doing the laundry of the homeless and families in need for Free on Christmas Morning, as well as serving a FREE All You Can Eat Christmas Pancake Breakfast. With Christmas Gifts for everyone and toys for children in need! No one will be turned away!
It’s going be a beautiful morning of love and Christmas! Join us! Continue reading