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Yes, Ecco is a good sign of things to come for the Camp. Where there was once just a notably good vegan restaurant housed in a yurt, there is now also an Italian restaurant that introduces the granola set to Grana Padano. The dish that represents the restaurant is the half-chicken. Like the Camp itself, it looks challenging to navigate. It's brown, dark and crispy where it isn't Hulk-green from the heavily herbed marinade. You ready yourself to get hands and fingers dirty, thinking there's a bone-in barbecued chicken in front of you. It's only after you finish the plate that you realize it's all edible-not a trace of bone or cartilage to be found, just moist pink meat and deliciously rendered skin.
You'd think a mac and cheese would be simple to pull off for a restaurant kitchen, but you'd be wrong. Never mind the technical difficulties of making a cheese sauce creamy-smooth, balancing the... More »
I waited nearly a year for Ecco to open at the Camp in Costa Mesa. It’s not that I was necessarily looking forward to another Italian restaurant, with Pizzeria Ortica and Il Dolce already existing in the same city. I was more interested in seeing... More »
Costa Mesa is blessed with not one, not two, but three restaurants that specialize in the thin-crusted pizzas of Naples. Think of the pizzaioli at each restaurant as painters with a different vantage point of a model pizza Napoletana. Each rendition is good, but the most perfectly balanced pizza of them all is found at Ecco Restaurant in the Camp. Starting with imported Italian tipo 00 flour fermented slowly over two days, the moderately thin dough cooks in a wood-fired oven burning hot... More »
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