When you’re already planning what you’ll order next time before you’ve even finished your meal, you know the restaurant is a keeper. That’s what happened on a recent trip to Dinesty Chinese Restaurant ...

Fifi Chao the longtime Orange County restaurant columnist died Monday. She was 81. “She was one of a kind,” said husband Patrick. In June, Fifi and Patrick celebrated their 55th anniversary. Born ...

There’s summer food and there’s winter food. In summer, I gravitate to food that’s like a light summer dress — light, fresh and simple. In cooler weather, I’m into sweaters to warm me to my bones.

Those who have visited any one of Dinesty Dumpling House’s outlets around town will know that the dining establishment is a popular purveyor of xiaolongbao, also known as pork-soup dumplings. It’s not ...

Richmond’s food court scene has been seeing a lot of changes recently. And now there is a new, but familiar, name that has ...