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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Amid the lush outdoor setting of 106 Seafood Underground, Sergio Peñuelas stands front and center in a semi-open-air kitchen housed in a small structure near the restaurant’s entrance. Pescado zarandeado from chef Sergio Peñuelas at 106 Seafood Underground. A colorful marlin on a wall at 106 Seafood Underground, left, and the restaurant’s marlin tacos. Chef-owner Sergio Peñuelas surveys the scene …