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JULY CONCERT GUIDE • DISHES WORTH THE DRIVE: VIETNAMESE FOOD TRUCK AND AUTHENTIC MEXICAN • CHEAT DAY LAND AT IRVINE SPECTRUM JUNE 26, 2019 • NO. 18 BY: LIZ GOLDNER JUNE 26, 2019 • No. 18 CONTENTS IRVINEWEEKLY.COM CANNABIS | COMPLIANCE 4 JUNE 2019 26, FIRM | 2 The Cannabis Compliance Firm is composed of the best cannabis-focused attorneys in Southern California. We combine years of experience in cannabis law and industry-specifi c insight to help you stay compliant and thriving. Christopher Glew and Jina Kim are expert cannabis attorneys assisting numerous clients in legal licensed cannabis regulation, cannabis manufacturing, cannabis cultivation, cannabis retail operations and cannabis distribution. Christopher Glew is lead counsel for the Santa Ana Cannabis Association and founder of the California Cannabis Bar Association. Feel confi dent that the Cannabis Compliance Firm will educate and advise you every step of the way. 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BY: MICHAEL COOPER or this week’s Dishes Worth the full-service Mexico City restaurant open today. Taco Rosa, which consid- beverages from a variety of regions the Drive from Los Angeles to from chef and owner Ivan Calderon. ers Taco Mesa its sister restaurant, was throughout Mexico, Taco Rosa takes its Irvine, we’re going on a Calderon also owns Taco Mesa, the recently named the Best Lunch Spot commitment to authenticity and sus- multicultural culinary journey fast-casual restaurants serving healthy in Orange County at the 2018 Golden tainability one step further by using Ffrom Mexico to Vietnam! and authentic Mexican cuisine, as well Foodie Awards. GMO-free masa for all their housemade First up this week, Taco Rosa in Irvine as Taco Mesa Tortillería Organica &; “The award-winning menu utilizes corn products and tortillas,” says Cal- brings a little bit of Mexico to Orange Café, where he produces all the tortillas, sustainable ingredients and artisanal deron. The first dish that makes it worth County. The first one opened in New- chips and other masa-based products. spices brought to life through authentic the drive is the enchiladas de Mexico port Beach in 2003, followed by the The first Taco Mesa opened in Costa and contemporary cooking techniques. City. The dish consists of two chicken Irvine location in 2006. It’s the same as Mesa in January 1992 and is still Presenting the very best dishes and enchiladas topped with tomatillo sauce, IRVINEWEEKLY.COM | IRVINEWEEKLY.COM OG Kush. A California Original Since 1996 JUNE 2019 26, | 5 AVAILABLE AT www.joshd.com LICENSED CULTIVATOR: @therealogkushstory BOSIM 1628 MANAGEMENT COMPANY LLC CULTIVATE CARE • ENJOY RESPONSIBLY • 21+ ONLY LICENSE #: PML18-0001689 MUSICFOOD MUSIC ing is the newest addition to TRADE Sons of Anarchy, at Irvine Regional Food Hall, Broken Rice, which first Park on Aug. 1. opened its doors back in March. The Mason Regional Park & Irvine Vietnamese eatery first started as a Regional Park popular Orange County and Los Ange- les food truck. Serving classic Vietnam- Sat. 7/13 ese staples, Broken Rice uses the textures HAMMER’S HOUSE PAR- and taste elements of its namesake, TY: M.C. HAMMER, 2 LIVE which are fragments of rice grains, CREW, BIZ MARKIE, SIR MIX- IRVINEWEEKLY.COM and allows customers the opportunity to | A-LOT build the meal by adding combinations With its rotating bill of early ’90s hit of veggies, proteins and handcrafted machines, always topped by ol’ para- sauces such as sriracha BBQ, miso curry, chute-pants himself, MC Hammer’s peanut sesame or cilantro lime. The “House Party” tour is an ultimate cele- TRADE location oers two new options: bration of retro R&B and hip-hop. Billed crispy glazed salmon and cajun shrimp, as Hammer’s fi rst major tour since 1991, in addition to the food truck’s original its Irvine stop also features Florida’s oerings of chicken, beef and tofu. JUNE 2019 26, controversial 2 Live Crew (“Me So The first dish we’re recommending as Horny”, “Banned in the U.S.A.,” etc.), the | worth the drive from Los Angeles is the juvenile humor of “Just a Friend” rapper surf ‘n’ turf bowl. The surf ‘n’ turf bowl 6 Biz Markie, and Seattle’s Sir Mix-A-Lot is a craveable combination of Cajun who, despite being overwhelmingly shrimp and marinated angus beef on best-known for 1992 mega-hit “Baby a bed of Jasmine broken white rice and Got Back”, has retained a cult following topped o with our half cilantro lime for his bouncy, bass-heavy style. But at mixed with half Sriracha BBQ. “We call the end of the day (or night) “Hammer’s this sauce mixture ‘popular sauce’ for House Party” is all about the iconic good reason!” says chef and owner MC Hammer, whose ability to laugh Peter Nguyen. The seafood and beef at himself has kept him in the public over all the other ingredients chosen for eye through TV commercials, reality CHILE RELLENO TACOS FROM TACO ROSA • PHOTO COURTESY OUTSHINE PR the dish makes it really delicious. shows, and movie cameos long after melted Oaxaca cheese, crema, queso The second dish we’re recommending the hits dried up. fresco and marinated serrano peppers is the creamy cilantro lime chicken CITIZEN KANE WAYNE BY: • PHOTO BECK FivePoint Amphitheatre, and onions, served alongside Mexican bowl. “This is a delicious mixture of veg- 14800 Chinon, Irvine rice and pinto beans. There’s a lot of gies, chicken breast and handcrafted Mexican food in LA, but these are really cilantro lime sauces, mixed perfectly in worth the drive because of how authen- a bowl that will keep you craving more YOUR JULY CONCERT GUIDE Wed. 7/17 tic they taste. The combination of after the first bite,” says Nguyen. We BECK, CAGE THE flavors makes these anything but your couldn’t agree more! The Broken ELEPHANT average Enchiladas. Rice food truck built a loyal fan base FROM BEAST COAST TO THE PACIFIC SYMPHONY, AND A quarter-century since his breakout The second dish is the chile relleno throughout Orange County, and when album Mellow Gold, Beck Hansen tacos: two chilaca peppers stued with the space at TRADE Food Hall became EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN, HERE’S WHERE AND WHAT remains rock royalty, the critical drool- panela cheese, topped with calabac- available, Nguyen jumped on the ing over his multi-genre musical mosa- itas and served with white butter rice chance to serve his customers at the TO HEAR THIS MONTH. ics consistent even as his commercial and black beans. If you can handle unique location. Guests are no longer fortunes have fluctuated. Angeleno BY: PAUL ROGERS the spice, you’re sure to love these tacos limited to searching for the Broken Rice through and through, his wide-eyed that are totally worth sitting in traic truck schedule, and the brick-and-mor- Sundays (7/7, 7/14, 7/21, er tunes, while country cover band the mer Concert Series. On July 11 at Mason collage of folk, psychedelia, hip-hop, for. “Since its inception in 2003, Taco tar location at TRADE will also allow 7/28, 8/4 & 8/11) Country Club will also o er a little rock, Regional Park, Aliso Viejo ‘90s cover noise, jazz and more reflects the myr- Rosa has been committed to sustain- Broken Rice to facilitate take out orders pop, jazz and swing on the 28th. The band SEGA Genecide throws back to iad cultures and social undercurrents CITY OF IRVINE’S SIZZLIN’ ability by using artisan alkalized and catering requests. Pacifi c Symphony brings it popular listening to Alanis, Eminem and Smash of his home city.