These are some of the oldest restaurants in Orange County

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• Miguel’s Jr. introduces beef birria
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His declining health meant she had to drop out of middle school in Anaheim to pick strawberries. She dealt with the alcoholism and gambling of my father in their early years of marriage, and his machismo until the day she passed. My family laid her to rest five years ago today, in a ceremony I remember like it happened yesterday. Dick Church’s is just over 50 years of age, but it has gone by different names over the decades when it first opened in 1947. Baby’s Beef Burger, Bud’s Drive-In, Art’s Coffee Shop were its former iterations, making it one of Orange County’s longest continually operating restaurants.

Column: My mami’s hard life, cut short right when it was about to get really good

Despite making national headlines for a mass shooting in 2023 — an ex-police officer shot and killed three people and injured six — Cook’s Corner is best known as the oldest-running dining establishment in Orange County. Gentrification’s unyielding homogenization. Food trend impermanence (remember molten chocolate cakes?). Myriad hurdles make breaking even during the first year cause for uncorking Champagne. But some lucky stalwarts have been around for decades, defining dining culture while weathering figurative and literal storms that keep people coming back for more.

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Since I had the most flexible schedule, I usually took her to chemo. We would drive down La Palma Avenue in Anaheim to a Kaiser Permanente so I could ask about her memories when the city was still very agricultural (she said the Japanese American farmers were far nicer than the white ones). Back home, we watched reruns of the trivia show “The Chase,” and she always suggested that I appear on it because I was able to answer so many of the questions. The rendition of “Lara’s Theme” I play — titled “Tema de Lara” in Spanish — is by Los Camperos de Nati Cano, the pioneering L.A.-based outfit that Mami was a fan of for backing Linda Ronstadt during her mariachi era.

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Restauranteur Bodie Rasmussen (Lost Bean Coffee, Lost Vine Wine Bar) purchased Dick Church’s in 2017 from its longtime owners. His new ownership has resulted in an admittedly much-needed makeover for the classic diner. New brass light fixtures, white paint, decorative tiles have all been added. The kitchen has also been updated to add more quality to its classic menu. Instead of frozen products from Cisco, fresh meats, like the tres popular waygu beef, are used for French dip sandwiches. Craft cocktails, like an Aperol Spritz or a Moscow Mule, have been added.

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Founded by Juan and Felipa Sariñara, who immigrated to Santa Ana from Durango, Sariñara’s Tamale Factory, Orange County’s oldest Mexican restaurant, located in the heart of Santa Ana, has stayed in the same family since it opened in 1939. Teresa Rodriguez Nieves, who inherited the family restaurant in 1985, is the third generation member of the family to own and operate the institution. Today guests return to Harbor House Care for its diner-forward menu. Cheeseburgers, Cobb salads, patty melts and milkshakes all make an appearance. Even grilled beef liver, a dish you don’t see often these days, can still be found on the expansive, laminated menu at this seaside institution. Noted for classic movie posters and antique displays gracing the walls, the first Harbor House Cafe opened in Sunset Beach in 1939.

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As a hopeful, solitary trumpet soars over the strums of guitars, the tears don’t stop as I think about everything I learned from Mami’s hard life, one cut short right when it was about to get really good. Twins starter Chris Paddack (2-1) wobbled a bit by giving up four runs on eight hits and a walk but went five innings. Max Kepler and Ryan Jeffers also hit home runs and Edouard Julien had three hits and three RBIs as the Twins improved to 7-1 following a five-game losing streak that included a three-game sweep by the Baltimore Orioles.

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Oh yeah, the desserts, very savory.Also, the drinks. Brian , the manager, we feel welcomed and our sever, Lucas, he is very attentive. Pistachio and ricotta creams separated by sponge cake, decorated with crushed pistachios and dusted with powdered sugar.

I will forever write about your life, your lessons, your great food and wide smile and eternal love. We had hoped she could beat cancer, but it wasn’t to be. My sisters and my Tía María’s daughters became Mami’s main caretakers as she declined. I was there when the phone call came from her doctor to say it was time to prepare for the end.

As “Lara’s Theme” swoons to its wistful finale, I remember the last year and a half of Mami’s life. Doctors dismissed her initial complaints about abdominal pains as nothing to worry about until one finally diagnosed her with Stage 4 cancer, with a survival rate of just 5%. The news devastated everyone who knew her, because she was just about to enjoy a well-deserved retirement with her grown-up children and a toddler grandson. The Twins have at least 10 hits in every game of the winning streak and had six different players drive in runs over the first three innings on Saturday.

El Adobe de Capistrano, which has been around since 1948, occupies a building that, in part, dates back to 1797. The two unassuming structures, now joined together as El Adobe, were once a residential house, the home of Miguel Yorba Adobe in 1797, and a building that served time as a trading post, a stagecoach stop, a post office and the Juzgado jail, established in 1812. Legend has it that ghosts haunt the eatery, most notably inside the wine cellar that, before storing cabernets and pinots, once housed inmates awaiting trial or the firing squad. Having survived earthquakes, forest fires, recessions and floods, this bar-slash-restaurant, noted for its Harley-riding clientele, has been a staple at the corner of Santiago Canyon Road and Live Oak Canyon Road in Trabuco Canyon since the Depression Era.

My mother’s grave is within eyesight of a big statue of the Santo Niño de Atocha, an apparition of the infant Jesus omnipresent in the lives of people from the state of Zacatecas, where she was born. Many from that diaspora are buried in Holy Sepulcher, including both of my maternal grandparents, family friends and cousins — and, one day, myself. So I recite the Lord’s Prayer and a Hail Mary for all of us, then pull up YouTube on my smartphone to play a mariachi version of “Lara’s Theme,” the song Mami requested we play at her funeral. Joe Adell hit a home run and drove in three runs for the Angels, who lost for the eighth time in their past nine games.

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Los Angeles starter Jose Soriano (0-4) gave up four runs with three walks over a season-low 1 2/3 innings. He has walked 11 batters over his last three starts. In 1948, rancher Clarence Brown opened El Adobe restaurant in the space after purchasing the property (the two buildings became one in 1910). The restaurant originally served continental fare, but after comments by Nixon, who had the chef make him private meals, word got out about its Mexican-American fare and the owner changed the menu to offer more south-of-the-border grub. Today the chicken meal costs $21.99 — and remains a bargain.

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