Let’s say you wake up one day craving a big juicy burger for lunch.

Later in the day, you decide that you want to watch an Angels game on TV in a sports bar. And you’re now in the mood for tacos.

After the game, you want to let loose and go clubbing.

You could drive all over Orange County; or you could park your car outside the Cantina Lounge in Fullerton and never leave.

The four-year-old restaurant, on the former site of the venerable college hangout Off Campus Pub, is all things to all people – particularly to people who like burgers, tacos, sports bars and nightclubs.

Click here for a photo slideshow of Cantina Lounge.

And the best night to satisfy all those needs is Tuesday. In Orange County, Tuesday is taco day.

At the Cantina Lounge, tacos are $1 each until 10 p.m., but the whole menu is also available, and that includes the mighty Cantina Burger, a half-pounder with pepper jack cheese, a giant beer-battered onion ring, thick Applewood bacon and a fire-roasted green chile on it. I love that a Mexican restaurant is not afraid to flaunt its burger when a well-known burger chair is RIGHT NEXT DOOR.

Although Tuesday is a great day for tacos, the restaurant offers happy hour discounts seven days a week, although on Sunday, there are no food bargains.

The place is festooned with flat screens, and I found a seat at the bar, and was able to watch the Angels, the Heat-Celtics game, the Women’s College Softball World Series and an IFC battle without turning my head. Look at me; I’m multi-tasking.

On Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, if you wait around long enough, you’ll watch the restaurant/sports bar magically turn into a full-blown nightclub. The theme on Thursdays is the 1980s and 1990s.

Contact the writer: 714-796-5051, ext. 1110, or bkoltnow@ocregister.com

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