L.A.’s First Cochinita Pibil is Legendary and Still Amazing, 52 Years Later

“Cochinita is my fountain of youth,” jokes Marc Burgos, the second-generation owner of La Flor de Yucatán Bakery, off Hoover and 18th Streets in Pico-Union. At 50, he is younger than his father’s pioneering Yucatán bakery, the first in L.A. to offer cochinita pibil tacos. 

For reference, that predates King Taco and the birth of L.A.’s two-bite taco by a whole year in 1972. 

“I inherited this restaurant from my father,” Burgos tells L.A. TACO as he leans over the bakery case that has been here for over half a decade. He himself was born in Los Angeles but raised in Yucatán.