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L.A. TACO’s Most-Read Food Stories of 2025

These were L.A. TACO's most-read food features of the year.

8:49 AM PST on December 23, 2025

This year, we took the bold step of ranking L.A.'s best Mexican restaurants, along with shaking up our annual guide to the best tacos in town. Along the way, we watched as Mexico tried to free itself from GMO corn and a titan of Tequila was sued for not being everything it claims to be. These were L.A. TACO's most-read food features of the year.

1. Announcing the Winners of TACO MADNESS 2025 by L.A. TACO Staff

After a grueling online fight between L.A.'s best taqueros, a champion was crowned at our TACO MADNESS festival in Downtown L.A., where an alligator trompo from the city's most diabolical taqueros nearly stole the show.

2. What to Know About Mexico’s Bold Move to Ban Growing GMO Corn (Yet Being the Biggest Consumer of American-Grown GMO Corn) by Javier Cabral