Review: In Boyle Heights, a fast-casual Mexican restaurant inspired by Mesoamerica
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Review: In Boyle Heights, a fast-casual Mexican restaurant inspired by Mesoamerica

LA Times  

An array of dishes from Milpa Grille, a Mexican restaurant in Boyle Heights : a plate of taquitos; crema de elote soup; and coco flan. A staple of Mexican restaurant combo platters and meal bowls around the world, rice is nowhere on the menu at Milpa Grille in Boyle Heights. Milpa Grille — a small Mexican restaurant with the anodyne appearance of a fast-casual chain — opened in early 2018 as a tribute to one of the world’s oldest agricultural systems, the Mesoamerican milpa. The all-female kitchen crew wears T-shirts that say Hecha de Maiz, and a sign in the storefront window reads: “Milpa Grille, Established 5000 B.C.” Milpa Grille owner Deysi Serrano along with her employees Viviane Hernandez, left, Lucila Olea and Raquel Abundiz.

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