The Eat Index: 🍰 Delectable pastries and a new entry for the best pizza in OC🍕

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Main Course

Here’s a tip from Brad A. Johnson if you visit Shokuh Patisserie in Newport Beach: Order one of everything.

Why? Because that magical pastry you saw may not be there next time and you really don’t want that kind of regret haunting you.

Eat of the Moment

Hot new pizza 

Brad may have discovered a new candidate for Orange County’s best pizza in Costa Mesa. Here’s what he had to say about Kuro Artisanal Pizza at The Lab.

The last carve

After almost 20 years, Lawry’s Carvery shut down in South Coast Plaza this week. It was the first quick casual concept for the swanky prime rib house which says it is planning to introduce a new casual restaurant.

By popular demand 

Customers of O Sea in Old Towne Orange liked the place and the food so much they kept asking for the restaurant to be full-service. Founder Michael Flynn decided they were right, so he turned its ordering counter into wine bar and hired a new chef.

A new take on tradition

When Alejandro Cuellar decided to open his own restaurant he looked no farther than his childhood favorite dishes. At Balvina’s Mexican Kitchen in Laguna Hills he serves moles, enchiladas and huevos rancheros the way he enjoyed them growing up in Puebla.

A break from booze

Of course we were stress drinking during the pandemic but this month  casual and social drinkers are taking a month off or trying to quit entirely. There’s help out there, including self-help books and low alcohol cocktail recipes.

Get the most out of your grocery budget with these three recipes that are tasty and save you cash.

Anyone else feel like they need to eat their feelings in the form of carbs this week? Yeah, me too. Cathy Thomas is here to save the day with a recipe for a show-stopping potato galette.