L.A. TACO is currently on its biggest mission yet: to create a food guide for every neighborhood in Los Angeles! Along the way, we will also be releasing brief histories of each neighborhood to understand L.A.’s past and present a little more, all the while celebrating how every square inch helps make our fine city the best in the world. Today we’re taking a look at Pomona.
San Fernando is “The First City of the Valley,” with its origins dating back almost two centuries. It is a neighborhood filled with contrasts from the vaqueros that still tend to their livestock in the area and lands to a place that is now home to second and third-generation proud Valley residents who work in the city’s booming manufacturing and commerce economies.
It is a city many Angelenos have fond memories of with their families. I can recount the weekends spent at the San Fernando swap meet searching for the newest Dodgers jersey with my dad, walking around with a bag filled with roasted peanuts, shamefully leaving a trail as we walked through the aisles. It’s also a place for remembering that life can be just a little slower.
The city’s food can be nostalgic, and family memories come easily in a place like this. Here are our favorite tacos in this historic San Fernando Valley neighborhood.