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 …
It’s noontime on a hot Sunday afternoon and all along the Boyle Heights stretch of Olympic Boulevard, taco hunters are out in force. “Juicy salsa and sliced avocados douse the first blazing bites like liquid metal cooling a nuclear reactor.” Raul Ortega holds a plate with his famous “taco dorado de camaron” outside his original Mariscos Jalisco food truck location …
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 …
Francisco Aguilar calls out the name on my order. Through one of the windows of Simón, the admiral-blue mariscos truck he parks six days a week at Sunset Triangle Plaza in Silver Lake, he hands me a plate with two tacos — a fish al pastor and a shrimp-filled gobernador. Customers wait for their orders at the Simón mariscos truck …
On the evening of March 19, shortly after Mayor Eric Garcetti announced that Los Angeles would be placed under a “Safer at Home” ordinance in response to the coronavirus outbreak, the rolling avenues of Boyle Heights were unusually quiet. I’ve never seen anything like it.” The scene was equally grim on nearby Soto Street, where the Tacos El Pecas food …
