"Chef Richard Mead operates the Farmhouse at Roger’s Garden in Corona del Mar; in a 2019 review of Mead’s restaurant Patricia Escárcega wrote that the most satisfying starter is the daily wood-fired pizza and that the soppressata-topped pie met the mark, although she described the restaurant’s signature seasonal vegetable bowl as “a dense, sluggish welter of fibrous things.”" - Cathy Chaplin