21 great L.A. places for Mexican food delivery and takeout
4 years, 9 months ago

21 great L.A. places for Mexican food delivery and takeout

LA Times  

There is hope in the sight of Wes Avila’s sweet potato taco splotched with almond salsa. 4538 East Cesar E Chavez Ave., Los Angeles, 262-5977 Broken Spanish Ray Garcia funnels a few headliners from his downtown restaurant’s modern Angeleno menu into generous family-style meals. 3014 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, 427-0608, ilovemole.com Guerrilla Tacos If you remember Wes Avila’s singular tacos served from a scrappy Arts District stand nearly a decade ago, you know the chef’s mettle: He knows how to make a situation work. 1261 Cabrillo Ave., Torrance, 974-8005, and 10426 National Blvd., Los Angeles, 559-4732, madrerestaurants.com Mariscos Jalisco It has long been popular for food writers to suggest that Raul Ortega’s shrimp tacos, blazing from the fryer with a cooling overlay of avocado and salsa, might be the first or most essential dish for visitors to eat to understand Los Angeles. 1401 Mirasol St., Los Angeles, 246-6819, elrusola.weebly.com Sonoratown The Burrito 2.0 is both a delivery godsend and superb encapsulation of what makes Jennifer Feltham and Teodoro Diaz-Rodriguez’s downtown taqueria so special.

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

How Mexico City’s humble taco went from market stall to Michelin star
3 months, 1 week ago

How Mexico City’s humble taco went from market stall to Michelin star

The Independent  

Sign up to Simon Calder’s free travel email for expert advice and money-saving discounts Get Simon Calder’s Travel email Get Simon Calder’s Travel email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. open image in gallery Diners queue for tacos at El Califa de León in Mexico City The taquería that made …

Guerrilla Tacos and Angry Egret chef Wes Avila returns with Mexican steakhouse MXO
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Guerrilla Tacos and Angry Egret chef Wes Avila returns with Mexican steakhouse MXO

LA Times  

MXO One of L.A.’s most celebrated chefs is playing with fire. Wes Avila, founder of Guerrilla Tacos and the now-shuttered Angry Egret Dinette, just opened Mexican steakhouse MXO in Beverly Grove, where steaks and seafood are singed over mesquite and peach wood, salsas and tortillas hit the tables along with ceviches and sides such as stewy Mayocoba beans or salsa …

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

A new Cypress Park taqueria brings a taste of Tijuana — from the family behind a popular TJ taco chain
4 months, 1 week ago

A new Cypress Park taqueria brings a taste of Tijuana — from the family behind a popular TJ taco chain

LA Times  

A new Tijuana-style taquería in Cypress Park is pressing fresh handmade tortillas to order and filling them with 24-hour-marinated meats and hearty scoops of guacamole, with customers lining the counter stools late into the night under a sign that reads “MORE TACOS LESS BORDERS.” “We’re trying to bring Tijuana to Los Angeles,” said Taquería Frontera owner Juan Carlos “J.C.” Guerra. …

The best tacos in L.A., according to L.A. Times readers
5 months ago

The best tacos in L.A., according to L.A. Times readers

LA Times  

L.A. Times Food writers ate hundreds of tacos to identify the 101 best tacos in L.A., an endeavor that took months. It’s made with fried and braised mushrooms, salsa macha and hibiscus onion.” 1254 S. Figueroa St., Unit 806, Los Angeles, level8dtla.com/location/brown-sheep-taqueria Aileen Cho calls a new taqueria in Eagle Rock “a local gem,” and elaborates, “Taco Social is easily …

Latinx Files: These are the best tacos in Los Angeles
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Latinx Files: These are the best tacos in Los Angeles

LA Times  

With all due respect to other major cities in the United States, Los Angeles reigns supreme when it comes to tacos. “And since tacos are embraced by people of all ethnicities in Southern California, a comprehensive taco guide seemed like a natural way to offer service journalism to our readers, reflect our culinary culture and celebrate all the working taqueros …

Celebrities, chefs and athletes share their favorite tacos in L.A.
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Celebrities, chefs and athletes share their favorite tacos in L.A.

LA Times  

Everyone in Los Angeles has a go-to taqueria. Read the guide Memo Torres, L.A. Taco journalist, landscaper: “There’s so many different styles of tacos: If you want a Sonora-style taco, Sonoratown; Sinaloa-style, La Carreta; you want a good street taco, Brothers Cousins Tacos; a good shrimp taco, Mariscos Jalisco; something innovative, I’ll go Evil Cooks, Macheen … My favorite taco …

We ate hundreds of tacos to find the 101 best. Here’s how the whole process went
5 months, 2 weeks ago

We ate hundreds of tacos to find the 101 best. Here’s how the whole process went

LA Times  

That’s the most tacos Food reporter Stephanie Breijo ate in a single day while researching our latest team guide, the 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles. Food How L.A. reached peak taco Los Angeles is the world’s most taco-diverse city with an explosion in regional Mexican tacos plus Korean, Black, vegan and more. There was no denying that tacos are …

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

The secret ingredient in these meaty tacos makes Whittier your next taqueria destination
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The secret ingredient in these meaty tacos makes Whittier your next taqueria destination

LA Times  

Peering over the counter at Tacos La Carreta in Whittier, I watch the cook in front of the comal assemble chorreadas — one of the specialties that defines José Manuel Morales Bernal’s quickly growing enterprise of Sinaloa-style taquerias. The view of the ordering counter and open kitchen of Tacos La Carreta in Whittier Bill Esparza wrote about the first iteration …

L.A.’s best mom-approved chilaquiles
7 months, 4 weeks ago

L.A.’s best mom-approved chilaquiles

LA Times  

Happy Mother’s Day weekend. Our wise server smiled and had a simple answer: “It’s a masterpiece.” California’s disappearing asparagus Fourth-generation farmer Aaron Barcellos of A-Bar Ag Enterprises in Firebaugh, one of just three large-scale asparagus farming operations left in California. But this past weekend, I was able to find meaty California-grown asparagus in three local markets: Whole Foods in Pasadena, …

Column: Cal-Mex is having a moment in New York. But how does it taste?
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: Cal-Mex is having a moment in New York. But how does it taste?

LA Times  

Customers line up at Los Tacos No. New York, like Los Angeles, has become a de facto suburb for Mexico City’s hip set, with culinary ideas flowing among the three cities. There’s an outpost of Dos Toros, an OK burrito chain started by two brothers from Berkeley in 2009, for the same reasons Cleghorn cited, that now has locations across …

A closer look at the puestos of the new Mercado González
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 …

All my favorite new restaurants are in downtown L.A.
1 year, 1 month ago

All my favorite new restaurants are in downtown L.A.

LA Times  

Certain pockets of downtown Los Angeles feel like a real, contained, thriving city. Beef bourguignon torta from Fabby’s Sandwicherie The beef bourguignon torta from Fabby’s Sandwicherie in downtown L.A. “It’s very Mexican, very Los Angeles and very French in its essence,” Alejandro Guzmán says of his small sandwich shop, where he also serves beef tartare on a paper plate. Food …

6 unique tacos that could only exist in Los Angeles
1 year, 2 months ago

6 unique tacos that could only exist in Los Angeles

LA Times  

In Los Angeles, the taco has for decades served as a canvas for diverse chefs who have long called the city home and likely grew up folding convenient ingredients from their own cultures into tortillas. Duck birria tacos at Baar Baar The duck birria taco is, in chef Sujan Sarkar’s words, “the perfect marriage between Mexican and Indian cuisine.” Sarkar …

A Michelin-guide taqueria is coming to Grand Central Market this fall
1 year, 3 months ago

A Michelin-guide taqueria is coming to Grand Central Market this fall

LA Times  

Villa’s Tacos Grand Central Market Villa’s Tacos, which makes some of L.A.’s most celebrated tacos, plans to open a location at Grand Central Market downtown as early as next month, bringing freshly pressed blue corn tortillas, char-grilled meats and family salsa recipes to one of the country’s most historic food halls. “Being part of something so amazing like the Grand …

The taquero hero’s journey that led Jorge ‘Joy’ Alvarez-Tostado to create Tacos 1986
1 year, 4 months ago

The taquero hero’s journey that led Jorge ‘Joy’ Alvarez-Tostado to create Tacos 1986

LA Times  

A man will change the course of his life for the love of a pretty girl. At least that’s the way it worked for Jorge Humberto Alvarez-Tostado, also known as “Joy” and the culinary force behind the growing Tacos 1986 empire of Southern California. “But he believed that I had the the knowledge to execute the concept, At least the …

Villa’s Tacos is the essential taqueria that only L.A. could dream up
1 year, 4 months ago

Villa’s Tacos is the essential taqueria that only L.A. could dream up

LA Times  

A thrilling sort of gravitational pull always attracted food lovers to the weekly pop-ups by Villa’s Tacos in 2021 and 2022, held near a restaurant-dense corner of York Boulevard in Highland Park. Villa frequently focused on his marquee queso tacos — tortillas fused with cheese that often formed into browned, jagged rhombus shapes resembling continents; on others the cheese ran …

Jonathan Gold’s birthday and Taco María’s next chapter
1 year, 5 months ago

Jonathan Gold’s birthday and Taco María’s next chapter

LA Times  

Carlos Salgado’s influence on Southern California cuisine, plus Bill Addison’s newest shawarma picks, breakfast memelas, “The Lincoln Lawyer” taco crawl, enigmatic doughnuts, a $600,000 wine heist, a hot new Korean-influenced sushi spot and a new Crazy Thai Burger. A birthday wish When word came this week that Carlos Salgado’s Michelin-starred restaurant Taco María would be closing until next year — …

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

Two new places to get your mariscos fix
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 …

Where to find the best lobster roll in Los Angeles
1 year, 11 months ago

Where to find the best lobster roll in Los Angeles

LA Times  

This week’s recommendations are shining examples of why I’ll never tire of eating around Los Angeles. Warm lobster roll from Saltie Girl The most decadent sandwich in Los Angeles may be the warm lobster roll from Saltie Girl, the Boston seafood restaurant that recently opened on Sunset Boulevard. We really wanted to showcase that.” McClelland’s roll is built on fresh …

‘A constant in our lives’: Readers share their favorite classic L.A. Mexican restaurants
2 years, 3 months ago

‘A constant in our lives’: Readers share their favorite classic L.A. Mexican restaurants

LA Times  

What makes for a great classic Mexican restaurant? 31 N. Baldwin Ave., Sierra Madre, 355-6060, casadelreyrestaurant.com — Domingo Torres-Rangel Food Old-school California Mexican restaurants, por vida Mocked, maligned and ignored, Cal-Mex dining is a testament to our state’s true history — and the food is glorious La Cabañita in Glendale. 6703 Santa Fe Ave., Huntington Park, 585-5055, avilaselranchito.com — Patty …

Some of L.A.’s top tacos expand to Mid-Wilshire with a second Sonoratown
2 years, 7 months ago

Some of L.A.’s top tacos expand to Mid-Wilshire with a second Sonoratown

LA Times  

Downtown’s award-winning Sonoratown is now open in Mid-Wilshire with limited hours and the same menu of caramelos, chivis and tacos as the original location. Hours are currently limited to 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday but will eventually mirror downtown’s hours — which include dinner service — in the coming weeks. 5610 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, 490-0198, …

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

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

Guide: Where to get top-notch tamales in Los Angeles right now
3 years, 1 month 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 …

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

Exploring Afro-Mexican cuisine at Tamales Elena in Bell Gardens
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 …

L.A. Taco’s Javier Cabral on scouting for tacos in Mexico and reporting the pandemic
4 years, 3 months ago

L.A. Taco’s Javier Cabral on scouting for tacos in Mexico and reporting the pandemic

LA Times  

In June, L.A. Taco editor Javier Cabral made one of the most nerve-racking editorial decisions of his career: He greenlit a story about the controversy surrounding Carnitas El Momo, a beloved L.A. taqueria whose use of the hashtag #AllLivesMatter on social media ignited a conversation about anti-Black racism in Latino communities. The El Momo story was “precedent-setting” for L.A. Taco, …

Newsletter: Who should be making (and selling) tamales?
5 years ago

Newsletter: Who should be making (and selling) tamales?

LA Times  

December is tamale-making season in Los Angeles, the time of year when I inevitably find myself elbow-deep in a tub of masa. In my family, the tamale prodigies include my husband, who makes green chile pork tamales in the wantonly spicy northern New Mexico tradition, and my mother, who can transform bubbling vats of guisados and hand-blended masa into pyramids …

Here’s all the great Mexican food from the 2019 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles list
5 years ago

Here’s all the great Mexican food from the 2019 101 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles list

LA Times  

Of the many excellent restaurants on this year’s 101 Best Restaurants list, where can you go for exquisite carne asada, mole Oaxaqueño, a steamy bowl of fideo, Zacatecas-style burritos, or maybe a taco tasting menu? Food Ray Garcia wants to combine old-school soul and new-wave ingredients at Broken Spanish Ray Garcia says his new Broken Spanish restaurant in downtown Los …

Newsletter: There’s no better place than Los Angeles to live the taco life
5 years, 2 months ago

Newsletter: There’s no better place than Los Angeles to live the taco life

LA Times  

Recently I reviewed Chinitos Tacos, a taquería in Lakewood with a charismatic chef and a compelling menu of Asian-influenced tacos. I thought about this recently as I stood in a Boyle Heights parking lot, waiting in the October chill to order what is perhaps Mexico’s proto-“fusion” taco: the taco árabe. Los Originales Tacos Arabes de Puebla sells tacos árabes in …

Review: In Long Beach, Amorcito spotlights Mexican American ‘pocho’ cuisine
5 years, 7 months ago

Review: In Long Beach, Amorcito spotlights Mexican American ‘pocho’ cuisine

LA Times  

Restaurant Critic The taco salad, a midcentury Mexican American dish, has never gotten much respect in food circles. At Amorcito, a new counter-service Mexican restaurant located inside the Hangar, the aviation-themed food hall located at the Long Beach Exchange shopping center, chef Thomas Ortega presents a version of the taco salad that’s, at once, ennobling and playful. Review: Sushi master …

Review: At Otoño in Highland Park, modern Spanish cooking with an L.A. twist
5 years, 8 months ago

Review: At Otoño in Highland Park, modern Spanish cooking with an L.A. twist

LA Times  

Restaurant Critic By the time the negra fideuà makes its appearance on your table at Otoño, you’ll have already worked through a few plates of tapas — triangles of Manchego cheese smeared with Asturian honey, tiny bowls of paprika-dusted Marcona almonds, plates layered with lustrous, paper-thin slices of jamón ibérico. This is the sort of modern Spanish cooking that Montaño …

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