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LA TimesFrom left, callo gratinado — scallop, queso chihuahua, squid ink crumbs, chile ancho — and the taco de esturión — smoked sturgeon, peanut, chile morita and cucumber — from Taco Maria in Costa Mesa. For Los Angeles diners, that means making a trip down south or Orange County to eat at Santa Ana’s loncheras or the best Vietnamese food in the country in Little Saigon. The 2019 Best Restaurants of Los Angeles The official L.A. Times list of the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles, curated by our restaurant critics. Chaak Kitchen At her sleek Old Town Tustin restaurant, chef Gabbi Patrick pays homage to her family’s Yucatecan heritage with time-intensive interpretations of the region’s revered dishes. 215 El Camino Real, Tustin, 699-3019, chaakkitchen.com Food Review: Chaak Kitchen is a culinary trip to Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula, via Tustin The charred habanero salsa at Chaak Kitchen, a Yucatecan restaurant in Tustin, is a fairly alarming thing to behold as far as condiments go — a thick, darkly mysterious sludge that resembles, more or less, a small vat of spent motor oil.
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