It’s never been easy to define a regional style of cooking for Southern California. Consider that at any given moment in the city, Los Angeles cuisine might take the form of Avish Naran and Miles Shorey‘s dosa onion rings with mango chutney at Pijja Palace, Katianna and John Hong‘s matzoh-filled mandu at Yangban Society, Junya Yamasaki‘s tonkatsu-chicken Kiev mashup in …
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 …
Even in the throes of June gloom, the sunny disposition of Southern California is an ideal climate for mariscos — for the precise uplift of citrus-doused, chile-ignited seafood. Mariscos Jalisco’s legendary tacos dorados de camarón tend to kick off local dialogues on the subject, as do the smoked marlin tacos and the grilled, Nayarit-style pescado zarandeado at Coni’Seafood in Inglewood. …
There’s no shortage of tacos in Los Angeles. Tacos dorados estilo San Marcos from the Birrieria San Marcos truck Unsolicited advice offered while waiting in line at the taco truck is the only advice I’m interested in taking. “We added this new San Marcos-style this summer because it was so hot and we weren’t doing as well with the regular …