Ecology Center: Local Food Video featuring St. Roy Owner Justin Monson
The Ecology Center: Green Feast part II. Buy Local. Think Global.
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OC Weekly Feature: St. Roy Chef's Pub Is the Cure for the Common Gastropub
You can get great food, excellent beers and top-flight wines at this San Clemente bar-just don't call it a gastropub
If you're wondering why St. Roy Chef's Pub is called that and not St. Roy Gastropub, it's because owner Justin Monson thinks "gastropub" sounds like a disease. Other recently opened restaurants that are really pubs have also avoided the distinction like, well, the plague. Santa Ana's Chapter One: the modern local, the last restaurant to disavow the label, loses nothing by disassociating itself from the word. But if there were a place capable of revitalizing the now-trite gastropub term with an injection of gravitas, it would be St. Roy.
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OC Weekly Feature: On the Line: Jared Cook of St. Roy Chef's Pub at Vine Restaurant, Parts One, Two and Three
Can a name for our featured chef be more appropriate than Jared Cook? Nah. The man in the kitchen at St. Roy Chef's Pub offers us his thoughts on foodies and how he likes to spend his free time. On the Line, Part One, begins below.
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