Silvia Rendon, owner of Casa de Silvia in Indio, shows off some of her restaurant’s Mexican dishes, including her award-winning tamales. We had to call my mom to make more tamales!” Juan Carlos Barajas, culinary director of the Indio International Tamale Festival, in front of a mural in downtown Indio. “Everyone comes back home, and you’re going to run into …
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 …
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 …
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 …
