Decadent dinners for New Year’s Eve in Orange County

1 week, 1 day ago

New Year 2025: 5 delicious dips to pair with appetisers for your New Year's Eve menu

New Year Eve parties are all about remembering the past year, making resolutions for the coming year and good food, music and conversation. For the dip, you'll need mayonnaise, cheese, scallions, sour cream, frozen chopped spinach and water chestnuts. Corn and Jalapeno Dip Image Source : FREEPIKCorn and Jalapeno Dip For this dip, you will need cream cheese, cheddar cheese, …

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1 week, 5 days ago

From New York to Vegas: Five iconic places to celebrate New Year's eve in US

India Today

Want to welcome the New Year with a bang? From fine dining to live music and even tiny gatherings, New York City caters to all those people who want New Year eve night different and truly unique. Orlando Orlando is a perfect family destination, with the most famous amusement parks hosting special New Year's Eve events. Walt Disney World features …

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1 month ago

Your first stop from L.A.’s 101 best restaurants? This weekend-only taqueria

LA Times

Our annual mega-project is live! Since 2013, The Times has published a yearly guide to the 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles, though in the six years now that I’ve been plunging into the project for months the word “essential” has always been more of a guiding precept for me. The three magazine covers for the 2024 edition of the …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Eat (and drink) your greens at this new Costa Mesa restaurant

LA Times

In Southern California, verde is a word that might not need translation, but it’s Spanish for the word “green” and also the name of a new restaurant concept from partners Koire Rogers and Anthony Laborin. “We are on the corner of Mesa Verde and Irvine, and we wanted to pay homage to the area specifically,” said Laborin. There is a …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Feast on this roundup of Thanksgiving takeout options in O.C.

LA Times

This Thanksgiving, leaving the cooking up to the professionals doesn’t mean you have to go out to eat. There are also prime rib and brisket options and you can choose from sides like mashed potatoes, cornbread stuffing, creamed corn, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce and turkey gravy to round out your meal. Turkey dinners include cranberry sauce, spinach dip with …

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2 months ago

13 tasty gifts you can only get from L.A. restaurants

LA Times

Whether the people on your gift list love locally roasted coffee, spectacular spices, wine, sake, mezcal or pizza, there’s something delicious for everyone from a neighborhood restaurant or bakery. One of the best gifts is a subscription from some of the country’s premier wine bars and shops, including Ototo in Echo Park and Alta Baja Market in Santa Ana. $13.50 …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

3 O.C. eateries offering Día de los Muertos dining in Orange County

LA Times

Día de los Muertos, the holiday dedicated to honoring beloved family members who have passed away, has been celebrated in Mexico and other Latin countries for centuries, but traditions associated with the multiday holiday have become popular in Southern California too. TimesOC takes a look at three: A dish of braised hanger steak with Nueske bacon and Rancho Gordo Peruvian …

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3 months, 3 weeks ago

Where Mario Lopez goes for the best Mexican food in Los Angeles

BBC

Where Mario Lopez goes for the best Mexican food in Los Angeles Getty Images The actor and born-and-bred Chicano loves hole-in-the wall Mexican food. Best birria tacos: Birrieria Gonzalez "I don't really go to a lot of high-end Mexican restaurants," says Lopez. Best Mexican style seafood crudo: Mariscos el Faro Lopez also loves Mariscos el Faro, a mariscos truck in …

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5 months, 2 weeks ago

Want to save money, curb food waste and try new restaurants? There’s an app for that.

LA Times

Too Good to Go is an app that aims to prevent food waste by selling surplus items from food businesses to consumer at a discounted price. “It’s important for us to save food from everywhere, from every convenience store to high-end grocery, local coffee shop or big chain.” Too Good to Go started in Copenhagen in 2016, expanded throughout Europe, …

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5 months, 4 weeks ago

Nothing says summer like the $10 tomato

The Independent

Going to the Hamptons and complaining about the cost of things is a little like going to Dubai and moaning about the heat. I did a rapid assessment of what was in my basket and approached the till with fear in my heart, ‘Were those tomatoes really nearly £100?’ The woman blanched. I am yet to spend €10 on a …

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6 months ago

How Chef Carlos Portela Captures Puerto Rico On A Plate

Huff Post

As I walk into chef Carlos Portela’s restaurant, Orujo, nestled in the swanky restaurant district of Miramar in San Juan, Puerto Rico, I’m greeted at once by John Lee Hooker’s blues. Portela’s lack of desire to conform to what it may mean to be a “fancy chef” is baked into Puerto Rican culture: We are proud of our vulnerability, our …

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7 months, 2 weeks ago

It’s the first taquería in the world to get a Michelin star. Here come the two-hour lines

LA Times

The taco guy didn’t quite get the fuss. Declared one commentator on the social media platform X: “In my opinion — and call me a hater if you want — neither El Califa de León, or Mexican cuisine in general, needs the validation of the gastronomic marketing company of the tire-maker Michelin.” An employee tosses a tortilla on a griddle …

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10 months ago

L.A.’s only Dominican restaurant introduces a family’s legacy of meaty, comforting glories

LA Times

Jonathan Santana opened the sole bricks-and-mortar Dominican restaurant in the Los Angeles area last summer. Deany and Jonathan Santana decided to open El Bacano to share their family’s recipes. In August, the siblings began the next chapter of the family’s restaurant lineage with 16-seat El Bacano in a North Hollywood strip mall. I’m especially partial to Santana’s chicken, Jonathan’s renaming …

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11 months, 2 weeks ago

Chinese New Year 2024: Places to eat in San Francisco to ring in the Year of the Dragon

Hindustan Times

Chinese New Year, or Lunar New Year, is a widely celebrated festival across the world. Here’s a list of places to eat in San Francisco to ring in the Year of the Dragon: Celebrate Chinese New Year in San Francisco with a special menu at these restaurants Where to eat in San Francisco on Lunar New Year? To mark the …

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1 year, 1 month ago

A closer look at the puestos of the new Mercado González

LA Times

A master fryer from El Moro Churreria from Mexico City cuts pieces of churros, the popular Mexican treat, at the new Northgate marketplace, Mercado Gonzalez, on opening day in Costa Mesa. “It is a celebration of food, of people, culture, traditions, and it is bringing a little bit of Mexico to Costa Mesa.” Fresh corn tortillas out of the oven …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Watch a Frida y Diego opera, join a pipe-making ceramics class and more ways to spend your weekend

LA Times

There’s nothing like the rain to really help us sink fully into fall. When: 4 p.m. Sunday Where: High Tide, 605 E. 4th St., Los Angeles Admission: Tickets start at $10 at the door; 21+ ART & CULTURE “El Último Sueño de Frida & Diego”: L.A. Opera’s latest production is set three years after the death of famed Mexican artist …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Open All Night – Ease Your After-Hours Hunger in Las Vegas

LA Times

Las Vegas may be known as a 24-hour town, but sadly, like many cities post-pandemic, round-the-clock dining options near the Strip are becoming as scarce as the beloved buffet these days. Flanker’s pretzel served up on “goal posts.” POST-GAME FARE THAT WILL LEAVE TASTE BUDS CHEERING Located inside Mandalay Bay, the recently opened Flanker Kitchen + Sports Bar has a …

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1 year, 3 months ago

One of L.A.’s oldest Mexican restaurants needs a miracle to stay on Olvera Street, owners say

LA Times

Bertha Gomez, right, and her son, David Gomez, the new owners of La Golondrina Cafe, stand inside the famed restaurant that remains closed on Olvera Street in El Pueblo de Los Angeles. Bertha Gomez, right, talks with Rocio Mendoza, who says she and her family would visit La Golondrina Cafe frequently over the years on Olvera Street in El Pueblo …

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1 year, 5 months ago

‘I miss it tremendously.’ Readers share their favorite spots to eat in Mexico City

LA Times

“Everyone has a ‘list.’ That’s your running, messy sheet of restaurants and sightseeing options for your favorite city that you only share with relatives or friends,” writes Times Food editor Daniel Hernandez. But the only place I ate at twice in my two weeks was a taco stand in the middle of the fancy Polanco neighborhood — near the Maserati …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Appreciation: Farewell for now, Taco María. We didn’t deserve you

LA Times

Carlos Salgado opened Taco María in Costa Mesa in 2013, propelling an exploration of what Mexican food and a Mexican chef could be. Taco María’s Twitter account stated the truck was named after the matriarchs in Salgado’s family and would focus on “Chicano cuisine.” As food editor for OC Weekly at the time, I found Salgado’s proclamation preposterous. My wife …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Plating four centuries | César Niño’s cookbook 1607 brings back an older chapter of Spanish cuisine

The Hindu

My time in Salamanca, a UNESCO heritage world city in Madrid, is a veritable time travel across centuries. At El Alquimista, chef César Niño’s five-course menu celebrates local produce, Spanish cuisine, and his Catalonian roots. The conversation organically moves to food history and I learn that Niño has recently released a crowd-funded book, 1607 - The Stoves of the Colegio …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Two New York icons open in L.A. with cocktails, pizza and legendary chocolate chip cookies

LA Times

Dante Beverly Hills A century-old Italian restaurant with a globally lauded cocktail program just touched down in Los Angeles, expanding beyond New York City for the first time. “We wanted to kind of adapt the concept to the produce and the way that consumers behave in that kind of environment, and not kind of make it a direct implant from …

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1 year, 6 months ago

True farm to table experience in San Juan Capistrano

LA Times

Guests eat lunch at the Campesino Café at the Ecology Center on Wednesday in San Juan Capistrano. “Everything comes from our farm and our fermentation lab,” said Evan Marks, founder and executive director of the Ecology Center. That is ultimately what the Ecology Center seeks to be as well.” The Ecology Center’s dedication to ecological foodways can be found in …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Want to throw a weekend asada? Guelaguetza’s Bricia Lopez shows us how

LA Times

Many people hear the word “asada” and think carne asada tacos or burritos, or carne asada plates with rice and beans at their favorite home-style Mexican restaurant. In “backyards across Southern California, an asada represents more than just meat,” the two say in the introduction to Lopez’s recently published book, “Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling.” “It means family, friends, …

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1 year, 6 months ago

Two new places to get your mariscos fix

LA Times

Lately, I’ve been eating foods that remind me of summer. El Muelle 8’s taco gaxiola, taco mar y tierra and campechana seca The taco Gaxiola at El Muelle 8 in Downey is a tower of seafood and condiments on a thick flour tortilla — and at the center is a brick of seared marinated tuna. El Muelle 8, the Downey …

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1 year, 6 months ago

When is a tasting menu worth your money ... and your time?

LA Times

Red foods for Juneteenth, Lucas Kwan Peterson’s salad days, a Pump-Tini-powered “Vanderpump Rules” restaurant crawl, Netflix’s IRL food show and a taqueria that brought in a priest to get employees to confess their work sins. On Tuesday, we not only announced our Restaurant of the Year award for Holbox, we named Koreatown’s Park’s BBQ as the winner of this year’s …

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1 year, 10 months ago

A new restaurant from one of L.A.’s wildest chefs opens inside a video game arcade

LA Times

Poltergeist The chef behind L.A.’s wild, irreverent, lines-around-the-block pasta pop-up Estrano Things is opening a new restaurant inside the beloved Echo Park arcade and bar Button Mash. The menu is grouped into small, medium and large plates to encourage sharing and sampling, with options such as honey walnut shrimp that involves a horchata-inspired take on panna cotta, while the Caesar …

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2 years ago

A wood-fired pizza spot is headed to this reimagined Culver City A-frame

LA Times

Best Bet By the time Best Bet opens, chef Jason Neroni says it will have been more than three years since he was handed the keys to one of Culver City’s remaining A-frames. While Best Bet is by no means a strictly Italian restaurant — riffing on the chef’s love of Japanese food and on the French technique he acquired …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Gordon Ramsay is charging £400 per person for his New Year’s Eve menu

The Independent

Sign up to IndyEat's free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Dining at a Michelin star restaurant is rarely an affordable …

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2 years, 3 months ago

A beloved Hollywood dive is reborn — with $3 beer and classic cocktails

LA Times

The Hollywood bar formerly known as Powerhouse is now Power House Bar, reopened by new management that hopes to bring the haunt close to its dive-bar roots. Power House Bar is open from 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. daily, with happy hour from 4 to 7 p.m. 1714 N. Highland Ave., Los Angeles, 463-9438, powerhousehollywood.com Chef Diego Argoti kicked off …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Spain holidays: Discovering why it's not the parties but the FOOD that's luring visitors to Tenerife

Daily Mail

Who likes their holiday to offer up surprises? Curve appeal: The Auditorio de Tenerife concert hall in Santa Cruz, which 'hogs the architectural limelight with its 190ft-high curved eclipse-like roof' Sudi stayed at the Royal Hideaway Corales Beach hotel, which opened two years prior to the pandemic. Sudi said the breakfast at the hotel included 'heaped platters of local cheeses, …

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2 years, 6 months ago

Modernizing bar food in Studio City — one killer quesadilla at a time

LA Times

When Jeff Strauss opened a sandwich shop in the back of a Highland Park liquor store near the end of 2019, his menu inspired a loyal following, even though the eatery was open for business only four hours a day, six days a week. Customers became ardent fans of certain sandwiches, referring to them as if they were picking their …

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2 years, 7 months ago

L.A.’s beloved Afro-Mexican restaurant nearly closed for good. This weekend, it’s back

LA Times

Tamales wrapped in corn husks and banana leaves are back on the menu at Tamales Elena y Antojitos, an Afro-Mexican restaurant in Bell Gardens that was set to permanently close but reopens today. In mid-May, after nearly one year of questioning their restaurant’s future, the Irras family announced they would close Tamales Elena, a restaurant that expanded upon their decades-old …

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2 years, 8 months ago

This week in L.A. restaurants: Tacos and a tiendita at Alma, Eataly invites coastal fare

LA Times

Alma Cocina de Mexico A restaurant from a prolific Mexico City hospitality group is now open within the Grove. Alma Cocina de Mexico takes over the space previously inhabited by 189 by Dominique Ansel and Curtis Stone’s Picnic Society and is open daily from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the taqueria and noon to 10 p.m. in the tiendita. …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Review: Poncho’s Tlayudas, a window to Oaxaca, serves one of L.A.’s defining dishes

LA Times

One recent Friday I brought a widely traveled, well-fed friend visiting Los Angeles to Poncho’s Tlayudas, a weekend Oaxacan pop-up in South L.A. that reemerged from a two-year hiatus in early March. Martinez, who is Zapotec, grew up eating tlayudas grilled and folded by cooks in Oaxaca’s Central Valleys, where he was raised, so that’s how he prefers serving them. …

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2 years, 9 months ago

The chef behind Ronnie’s Kickin’ opens the first of a string of new restaurants this week

LA Times

The first bricks-and-mortar restaurant from chef Ronnie Muñoz opens this week with his signature fried chicken alongside more plated dishes and a full bar. Ronnie’s Kitchen + Cocktails Chef Ronnie Muñoz had wanted to open a full-service restaurant of his own for years, but when the pandemic hit, the Craft and Paley vet instead turned his attention to Ronnie’s Kickin’ …

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2 years, 10 months ago

Your next great L.A. meal will probably be a tasting menu

LA Times

Dry-aged fish by the Joint Seafood, with Nam Jim seafood sauce was part of a recent omakase menu by chef /co-owner Justin Pichetrungsi of Anajak Thai in Sherman Oaks. Though Phan said the tasting menu format suits her “110% more” than a la carte dining, the $158 cost prompts a certain level of guilt. “If you don’t let them order, …

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3 years ago

Guide: Where to get top-notch tamales in Los Angeles right now

LA Times

Tamales rate among the essential staple foods of Southern California. During an early December visit to Angry Egret Dinette, Wes Avila’s then brand-new takeout operation in Chinatown’s Mandarin Plaza, I noticed he’d painted a sign on its window: “Tamales available for the holidays.” I placed an order online, and on Christmas Eve we were unwrapping corn husks revealing fluffy masa …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Ecology Center sets the table for 13th annual Green Feast in San Juan Capistrano

LA Times

A variety of hot peppers at the Farm Stand in the Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano. The Ecology Center in San Juan Capistrano sets the table for its 13th annual Green Feast on Sept. 18 and 25, and diners will have a lot more room to spread out than in years past. “But when the city offered up the …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Lasita reopens in Chinatown with a makeover

LA Times

Lasita gets a renovation, new menu items Earlier this year, Lasa in Chinatown’s Far East Plaza was rebranded as Lasita, a casual Filipino rotisserie and natural wines concept; recently it closed for a couple months for a renovation. 727 N. Broadway, #110, Los Angeles, 443-6163, lasita-la.com Qué Padre opening in Pacific Palisades At Qué Padre, a fast-casual restaurant in the …

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3 years, 7 months ago

And the winner of the 2021 Gold Award is ... Guelaguetza

LA Times

Guelaguetza, awash in orange paint, appears on Koreatown’s Olympic Boulevard like a burst of sunlight. “People laughed in his face,” says Fernando Lopez Jr. of his father’s notion to open an L.A. restaurant that was specifically Oaxacan. Guelaguetza is also this year’s winner of the Gold Award, given to a local chef or restaurant “with the idea of honoring culinary …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Welcome back: Restaurants, movie theaters, gyms reopen in L.A. County today

LA Times

Crystal Garcia, an assistant manager at Planet Fitness on Imperial Highway in Inglewood, wipes down treadmills with disinfectant while helping to prepare the gym for its reopening after being closed since July. “Now that we’re open, it’s certainly a good birthday,” Canter said Monday. As L.A. County Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer noted Monday, “just because certain activities are allowed, …

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3 years, 10 months ago

Private dining salons for Valentine’s Day in Covid-era

Live Mint

It's a Covid-era conundrum for Valentine's Day: how to eat out with your beloved when you live in a country where all restaurants are closed? The answer hit upon by a handful of hotels in Belgium's capital is to convert empty rooms into private dining salons for two, where a four-course meal with champagne and wine can be enjoyed without …

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4 years ago

`Noon Year’s Eve': toasting the new year before midnight

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. One way to combine a glittery New Year's Eve …

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4 years ago

Exploring Afro-Mexican cuisine at Tamales Elena in Bell Gardens

LA Times

As we try to deal with the 2020 pandemic freight train that continues to barrel over us, we should note a few bright spots— including the opening of a bricks-and-mortar location, in Bell Gardens, of Tamales Elena y Antojitos, which had for years operated out of a truck in the Watts neighborhood. In this episode of “Off Menu,” host and …

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4 years ago

Surviving the pandemic with takeout feasts that make you feel at home

LA Times

It’s been an uncommonly difficult year in many ways, but Los Angeles teems with talent and ideas, and our city’s dynamic food culture remains. Recently, I spent the better part of a Saturday morning in the front yard of Alan Cruz’s City Terrace home eating barbecue, a luxurious spread that included baby back ribs glazed with tamarindo sauce; pork belly …

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4 years, 2 months ago

Boo! 18 ways to celebrate Halloween and Día de Los Muertos, IRL or virtually

LA Times

With the COVID-19 pandemic still lurking like some horror-movie phantom that just. In-person events “Los Angeles Haunted Hayride” This year’s iteration of the Halloween attraction has relocated from Griffith Park to San Dimas and ditched hay wagons in favor of automobiles. Zoo Drive-In Movies’ “Hair-Raising Halloween” The zoo’s four-night slate of mostly family-friendly films kicks off with the 1985 mystery …

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4 years, 3 months ago

Why Tamales Elena y Antojitos is L.A.’s most vital new Mexican restaurant

LA Times

The pozole verde at Tamales Elena y Antojitos in Bell Gardens is a dish to savor in stages. Lorenzo’s recipe, like each of the two dozen menu items at Tamales Elena y Antojitos, illuminates the Afro-Mexican cooking of Costa Chica, a hilly stretch along the southern coast of the state of Guerrero between Acapulco and the border of Oaxaca. Tamales …

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4 years, 8 months ago

Cinco de Mayo usually brings in profits but family-owned Mexican restaurants struggle to remain open

LA Times

Restaurant owner María Elena Avila said she usually sees packed seats and lines outside Avila’s El Ranchito restaurant in Costa Mesa during Cinco de Mayo. We’ve had recessions, different downturns, 9/11 — but we’ve never seen anything like this,” Avila said. For El Mercado Modern Cuisine in Santa Ana, which opened in 2017, the takeout model didn’t work, and general …

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