Our law firm just moved offices to the Xerox building off the 55 and
the 5 in Santa Ana and my boss and I are having trouble coming up with
more than 4 decent restaurants: Nieuport 17, El Zocaolo Mexican
Restaurant (which are both actually in Tustin), Original Mike's and
Memphis. (We'd just as soon not have to venture as far afield as the
Southcoast Plaza area, although this cuts out Jerry's Deli, dammit.)
Since we go out to lunch most days, a 4 restaurant rotation is getting
a little old. Anyone have any recommendations for good restaurants
that are anywhere near the 55 and the 5? And by "good restaurants," I
mean something a couple of steps + above Mimi's or Coco's and that has
a full bar...there are days when we wine and dine clients and a good
Grey Goose martini can occasionally make the client see our legal
strategy as sheer brilliance :-D

TIA,
Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

--
"If the soup had been as hot as the claret, if the claret had been as
old as the bird, and if the bird's breasts had been as full as the
waitress's, it would have been a very good dinner."

-- Duncan Hines

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