After spending years with the Ritz-Carlton, Chef Dee Nguyen started Break of Dawn, a gourmet Orange County restaurant featuring breakfast and lunch, to enrich the Irvine, El Toro, Irvine, Lake Forest and Newport Beach neighborhoods.

Chef Dee's vision is to integrate a hint of Vietnamese flavors with refined European sophistication. The resulting food explodes in your mouth with exciting flavors giving all patrons a longing to return to experience another dish.

When you want to impress a friend or business associate in the Irvine, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Newport Beach or Laguna Hills area, visit Break of Dawn -- treat your mouth to something special!!!

The OC Business Journal and Fifi Chao's 2006

"BEST LITTLE GEM TO OPEN"