In which L.A. TACO's Hadley Tomicki fills you in on the most exciting new restaurants, pop-ups, and events cracking in and around Los Angeles...
Whittier
Tacburg is a restaurant dedicated to tacos and burgers, soft-opening today in Whittier. The food here is pointedly unsubtle, with a menu reveling in tacos de asada topped with split, marrow-filled shanks, al pastor burgers loaded with caramelized pineapple rings, a Flintstones burger speared with an entire beef rib, and Sonoran-inspired bacon-wrapped and hot-dog-filled chiles.
"We wanted to bring something different," an owner tells L.A. TACO. "We all love tacos, burgers, and hot dogs. We just amplified them to certain things we grew up with... for example, the chile relleno hot dog. I remember that during cuaresma (Lent), all we ate was chile rellenos. So we created plates that take us back."
6541 Greenleaf Ave. Whittier, CA 90601. Closest transit lines and stop: Norwalk Transit Line 7 - "Greenleaf/Hadley" or Montebello Bus Lines Routes 10 and 50 - "Philadelphia/Milton."