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Professional punk and Editor-In-Chief for James Beard Award-winning L.A. TACO. Associate Producer for JBA-winning Las Crónicas Del Taco. Former restaurant scout for Jonathan Gold. Co-author of &#8220;Oaxaca: Home Cooking From the Heart of Mexico (2019, Abrams) and &#8220;Asada: The Art of Mexican-Style Grilling&#8221; (2023, Abrams).

Javier Cabral

Tacos

Tijuana Taco Safari with Ed’s Manifesto: NY Steak Tacos with Mayonnaise and Salsa at a 57-Year-Old Institution

One of L.A. TACO&#8217;s co-founders, Hadley Tomicki is a writer and editor on food, travel, and culture whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Magazine, UrbanDaddy, High Times, and many other places.

Hadley Tomicki

Crime

Glendale Man Gets Five Years of Prison Time For Hate Crime At a Turkish Cafe in Beverly Hills

L.A. TACO STAFF

News

Headlines: Fire Damages ‘Karate Kid’ Apartment; Exploring Lao Cuisine in SoCal

Weed

After Paying $18M in Taxes, Jungle Boys Raided For All Its Cash In Boyle Heights

Headlines: Former UFC Champ Faces Attempted Murder Charge; 22 Injured at Querétaro Futbol Match

Seafood Tower? Nah. This Culver City Restaurant Serves a ‘Taco Tower’

Memo Torres is the Director of Engagement and multimedia journalist for the James Beard award-winning L.A. Taco. He is also the host of the Daily Memo and writes for Apple Maps’ ‘Where Memo Torres Eats in L.A.’ You can see him on Netflix&#8217;s Taco Chronicles and Pressure Cooker.  You can hear him on KCRW’s ‘Good Food’ occasionally. He was a finalist for the Ruben Salazar Award for Latino journalists and a former third-generation landscaper.

Memo Torres

Food

From Coyote to ‘Ceviche Champion,’ Meet the Man Conquering the I.E. With His T.J.-Style Mariscos

Headlines: Three Mixteco Men Murdered in Phoenix; ‘Atheist Pirates’ Clean Up L.A.’s Streets

Whittier’s ‘Tacos Y Que’ Seeks Help After Tens of Thousands of Dollars In Gear Is Stolen

Chinatown

This Weekend’s Events: Sade Night, Jitlada’s Thai Tacos, and FGW on a Sick One in Van Nuys

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