The pozole verde at Tamales Elena y Antojitos in Bell Gardens is a dish to savor in stages. Lorenzo’s recipe, like each of the two dozen menu items at Tamales Elena y Antojitos, illuminates the Afro-Mexican cooking of Costa Chica, a hilly stretch along the southern coast of the state of Guerrero between Acapulco and the border of Oaxaca. Tamales …
Restaurant owner María Elena Avila said she usually sees packed seats and lines outside Avila’s El Ranchito restaurant in Costa Mesa during Cinco de Mayo. We’ve had recessions, different downturns, 9/11 — but we’ve never seen anything like this,” Avila said. For El Mercado Modern Cuisine in Santa Ana, which opened in 2017, the takeout model didn’t work, and general …
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 …
