By Amalia RoseImagine the opportunity to enjoy a healthy, high quality and beautifully hand crafted mixed sashimi bowl. Poke, pronounced (Po-Kay), is a popular Hawaiian dish right around the corner.The restaurant Honeyfish Poke, new to Victoria Gardens, is a healthy fast food alternative filled with high-quality food and cultural history that brings much-needed diversity to the food court. Poke has some of the most delicious flavors and explosive sauce combinations. Its bright red and orange logo can be found presenting the well-refined establishment right down the street from the Corner Bakery.With a large smile and kind hospitality, co-managers Ben Ma and Charles Lei welcome anyone who walks through their giant glass doors. Their employees provide great customer service and reassure that every bowl is made with the freshest ingredients and high-quality cuts of fish. It's perfect for the busy college student who doesn't crave the same old greasy fast food.Poke is a Hawaiian dish made of steamed rice, freshly cut vegetables, savory sauces and fish protein.

It is served in a convenient mixed bowl of different sizes and comes with various combinations that can be customized to fit anyone’s palette. Customers can chose from a wide variety of high-quality seafood such as yellowtail, tuna, albacore, salmon, shrimp, cooked crab, lobster and tofu.For those near Victoria Gardens, a visit to Honeyfish Poke is well worth it. All sushi eaters both old and new will fall in love with this poke place.Duke Park is the owner of Honeyfish Poke. The Rancho Cucamonga location is the fourth place he has opened, and he has stores in Northridge, Westlake and the L.A. area. He hopes to further the craze and spread the joy of poke to the west coast. Best Of :: Food & Drink The Library Gentlemen's Club You laughed at the thought of sushi at a strip club? Hey, we're with you—the fish jokes kinda write themselves, don't they? And the owners and managers of the Library Gentlemen's Club in Westminster aren't ignorant of your jokes, either. In fact, they take pride in their top-grade meat selection, sourced multiple times per week.

The sushi (rolls, nigiri, omasake—whatever your heart desires) comes reasonably priced and beautifully displayed. There's even real wasabi, which is more than can be said about half the local sushi joints you try to impress your dates at. jugar online youda sushi chef gratisHow's that for dinner and a show?jiro dreams of sushi onde comprar Readers’ Choice: King’s Fish Housetupperware sushi maker cena 7000 Garden Grove Blvd, Westminster, 92683jiro dreams of sushi vod We figured Taco Maria had a nice two-year run as the county's best restaurant, that chef Carlos Salgado wouldn't mind if we spread the love elsewhere, that there were a bunch of other OC spots worthy of the crown. tenzan sushi order online

And there are—more than at any point in OC's dining history, actually. But we are a paper of truth, no matter how inconvenient, and the truth is Salgado's place remains epochs ahead of nearly everyone else: He's a chile de árbol in a sea of bell peppers. sushi grade salmon bramptonIt's not just that Salgado was a James Beard Award semifinalist this year, or that he's increasingly getting called to cook in the motherland alongside such Mexican culinary giants as Javier Plascencia and Enrique Olvera, or that they're doing pop-ups with him at Taco Maria. It's not even how his staff is as precise as a phalanx of neurosurgeons, from setting cutlery to refilling your glass with water. It's all about his food—sustainable, delicious, forward-thinking and paisa AF. What won him this award was a late-summer addition of a shrimp quesadilla served alongside a squash blossom and a green salsa—available at nearly any lonchera in OC, but nowhere near as astounding, and yet regal enough to deserve its own booth on the fourth floor of South Coast Plaza.

And, being the good general that Salgado is, credit for Taco Maria's great run also goes to his No. 2, Roland Rubalcava, the best right-hand man since William Tecumseh Sherman. Readers’ Choice: The RANCH Restaurant & Saloon 3313 Hyland Ave., Costa Mesa, 92626 The original Anepalco is still the place for a quick breakfast or brunch of fine French-Mex cuisine. But it's at Anepalco inside the ALO Hotel where chef Danny Godinez is able to oversee the philosophy that's the subhead to the restaurant's name: cocina del barrio. Food of the people that's as futuristic as that Mayan spaceman glyph. We've long raved about Godinez's postmodern chilaquiles, but everything here is a stunner: deconstructed tortilla soup, huitlacoche ice cream and the pan-Latin #borrachoproblems of head bartender Cesar Cerrudo. It's a goddamn shame that Anepalco doesn't get more regional or national love—but in the meanwhile, it'll just be our beautiful secret. Readers’ Choice: Avila’s El Ranchito

3737 W. Chapman Ave., Orange, 92868 Pizzeria Ortica has always attracted eaters for its great pizzas, but the entrance of Joel Caruso and his man Friday, Aristotle Alstaetter, transformed the place into Orange County's ultimate booze factory. Caruso is a Caravaggio of cocktails, each sip detailed, dramatic, dark, thoughtful and brilliant. Alstaetter, meanwhile, is already at top-rate bartender status with creations more playful, lighter, yet just as genius—let's call him Pizzeria Ortica's Rossini. Are we done with the Italian metaphors? Together, the two are the young DeNiro and Pacino of OC bartending, wowing with every appearance. Readers’ Choice: SOCIAL Costa Mesa 650 Anton Blvd., Costa Mesa, 92626 Despite Filipinos representing the largest Asian population in California, their cuisine has historically been resigned to cater to only Filipinos. Ryan Garlitos' Irenia aims to change that. Whether you're new to Filipino food or you grew up with it, Garlitos' interpretations of classic Pinoy dishes, such as adobo and ginisang monggo, will make you fall in love with it for the first time or the millionth.

This is Filipino food for the widest possible audience that's never dumbed down or whitewashed. And for dessert, pastry chef Ashley Guzman shines with her modern spins on sweets such as a deconstructed calamansi pie and halo-halo, which are some of the best desserts in OC, Filipino or otherwise. 400 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, 92701 Not only is Kelly's Korner Tavern the epitome of a neighborhood bar—stumble up McCormack Lane for a minute, and you're in the middle of a nice suburban tract—serving some of the best bar food around (and suds FOR DAYS), but the Placentia favorite also has enough flat-screens to illuminate the Carlsbad Caverns. Nearly all of them are set to different games, ensuring that on any given night this fall, you saw the Angels losing, the Dodgers winning, the Lakers struggling, the Galaxy hustling, the Ducks underachieving, the Kings rebuilding and Sportscenter morons braying—and that's just one wall. Readers’ Choice: Tilted Kilt 907 E. Yorba Linda Blvd., Placentia, 92870