Making your way through South Coast Plaza — the sleek consumer cathedral in Costa Mesa, a sort of mall of malls — past Uniqlo window displays and Pop Mart blind boxes, there’s a good chance you’ll eventually land at Tiny’s, the new casual restaurant from Chef Sang Yoon.
The burger shack-meets-Asian convenience store is the latest from Yoon, best known for Father’s Office, the Los Angeles institution where he’s spent two decades running one of the city’s most uncompromising kitchens — no substitutions, no exceptions.
Tiny’s marks Yoon’s first venture into Orange County — a deliberately accessible entry point for a chef who has spent decades at the top of L.A.’s gastropub scene.
The concept
Tiny’s is the place Yoon wanted to exist as a kid…