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Lucid now has the Gravity in store at Fashion Island. Only for a few days, just a prototype. Look but no touch :(

sad I missed the photos on this one, looks like they were taken down

If you don't want to travel that far, you can get Picanha to go from Texas de Brazil on the Irvine side of the Market Place. Price is reasonable at $12 for a half pound pile of meat.

I scouted out DFC prior to my in-laws visiting recently, and the food came out over-seasoned, oily, and gross. We took the in-laws to Meizhou Dongpo instead during their visit from HK.

Great restaurant and I love that they use the Toast app for easy takeout ordering.

My fav item at Hopdoddy is the queso, but I'm originally from Texas and it's the closest I've found. Quality control is variable unfortunately so sometimes it'll come out watery and gross.

It's Kin Izakaya for dinner in the same location as Nep for brunch/lunch. They close in the afternoon and flip the concept when they reopen later in the day. (I'm referring to the ex-EMC space in Heritage Plaza)

I think the 34 Mann St is a better teardown candidate. We also peeked inside this house. Worse condition but better lot (I think) https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/34-Mann-St-92612/home/4698066

This $2m listing is a being marketed as a tear-down. Most of the pictures in the listing are 3d renderings and plans for a "shovel ready opportunity" https://www.redfin.com/CA/Irvine/64-Mann-St-92612/home/4698057 Comps on the next street that transacted with the same strategy: 1.6m...

hold up DFC is back open?

Funny you should post this. We went to the open house for 17 Butler on Sunday. Nicely staged with a good amount of foot traffic. It's not a tear down like some of the other units that have transacted in the chancellor tract or the Mann "4bd" one for sale currently as well. Great neighborhood, I...

I guess this is where personal taste comes in--not a fan of homebrewing or IPAs. My fav tap room is up in Anaheim at Bottle Logic. Burger/tots sounds nice but a lot of places do them well including The Cut in Irvine. I think it's harder to do healthy food well and reliably.

I really like their Chicken Caesar salad and sometimes they have nice beers on tap.

Agreed, BMW Financial Services are doing a lot of heavy lifting to move units. Same with Mercedes EQS if you check lease forum deals. It does make the growth feel a little bit juiced in my mind. Having said that, people have been hacking BMW leases for decades so the concept of pushing certain...

I'm agreeing with you in principle while providing an actual experience of a car renter for a practical reason why EVs make sense in principle but Hertz screwed up the execution.

You would think, but I rented a Polestar 2 EV last year from Hertz. It was almost brand new (<50 miles on the odo) but the idiots didn't fully charge the car.

Yeah, I shopped and ate there twice and just wasn't that impressed. I prefer Gelson's if we're going to go to a bougie market and somehow the food court wasn't as good as others. I didn't mind the price level but it did set a level of expectation.

We don't really do buffets but I preferred Agora over Fogo de Chao. Sucks that they left.

I like the idea of direct sales over dealer but am not sure it's very mature right now. For example, we decided we want to test drive a Rivian. We went to the Laguna store and was told that they weren't doing test drives but we could sit inside the car. In order to actually test drive the car...

We visited the new Rivian showroom in Laguna Beach this month. It is super nice as an architectural adaptive reuse but kind of odd in the sense that you cannot buy a car or place an order there. The product info people were really nice and it is a nice place to drink a coffee and next to some...