Tacos
Bison Tacos and Wild Venison Flautas at Echo Park’s Most Controversial Former Vegan Restaurant
Antojitos get the wild game and Indigenous protein treatment at Sage Vegan Bistro in Echo Park, but are they intriguing enough to lure you away the chile colorado at El Ruso across the street?
Inspired By One of Oaxaca’s Best Street Foods, This Taquiza Is Bringing Chicharrón-Topped Suckling Pig Tacos to L.A. (and O.C.)
The pork is marinaded in a secret recipe for ten hours and roasted for four hours until it falls apart. They top it with crumbled chicharrón that they puff up themselves, a habanero salsa, and taquería guacamole. They just started offering an outstanding suadero that is confit in beef tallow, longaniza drippings, and lard until it gently crisps up like a beef version of carnitas.
One of Tijuana’s Most Respected Taco Shops Just Opened in East L.A.
It is the eighth location of the celebrated T.J. chain, but the first one in the U.S. The ninth one is opening in San Diego soon.
This Pioneering Mexican Restaurant Was One of the First in L.A. to Reject ‘Combination Plates’ In 1985. Now, They Are Struggling to Stay Open
Jose and Aurora Rodriguez founded La Serenata on 1st Street in 1985. Their menu full of "complex sauces that blew everyone's minds," as Jonathan Gold once wrote, drew people from all over the city to Boyle Heights. But like many other restaurants at the moment, Jose's only son, Marco, is struggling to keep their last-standing West L.A. location open amid rising costs and declining sales.
L.A.’s Next Top-Tier Taquería Brings Border-Defying Asada and Perfect Al Pastor to Cypress Park
Even with hundreds of great taquerías in Los Angeles, you know this taco is a winner as soon as you take your first bite. The owner pulled temporary visas for his staff to bring them from his legendary taqueria chain in Tijuana to make sure the tacos and the experience are as delicious as it is in Mexico.
$7 Mini ‘Al Pastor Trompos’ Have Arrived In the San Fernando Valley
You can either tear into each mini trompo with your hand using a corn tortilla like a glove to eat it like a taco or bite into it like a kebob. It's the the first of its kind in the streets of L.A.
Holbox In South Central Just Became the First Mexican Marisquería In the U.S. to Get a Michelin Star
The genre-pushing Mexican seafood stall in Mercado La Paloma is also the only marisquería to use tortillas and tostadas made from nixtamalized heirloom corn grown in Oaxaca and the state of Mexico. Holbox also stands out among the rest of one-star recipients for not serving alcohol in its menu.
Someone Illegally Painted a Curb Red In Highland Park, Allegedly To Kick Out One of The Neighborhood’s Oldest Taco Trucks
The local taquero behind Charlie's Tacos has fed his neighborhood of Highland Park for 13 years. Now his community has his back as a red curb spontaneously appeared where he parks.
Seven Incredible Dishes to Try In Compton’s Exciting Atlantic Avenue Street Food Market
From gorditas estilo Durango, machaca and sushi Sinaloense, mariscocos, and birria estilo Tijuana, here are seven places down Atlantic Avenue in Compton to satisfy your cravings.
