L.A.’s mariscos game is up there with those of the biggest cities in Mexico.
We have it all:
Sonoran-style tostadas, stacked high with aguachile en salsa negra and served by a former minor league pitcher in Lynwood. Young coconut “mariscocos” in the streets of Compton, overflowing with pen shell clams and Pacific Ocean shrimp. And more than our share of perfectly flaky whole-fish pescado zarandeado around L.A. County.
In the last decade, we've eaten at modern Mexican restaurants that celebrate a contemporary approach to mariscos, like Ceviche Project in Silver Lake, Loreto in Frogtown, and fine dining restaurants like Damian, which put a creative spin on different seafood dishes.
The rise continues at Ruta 15, a mariscos-only restaurant that quietly opened three months ago in a part of Long Beach's Seventh Street flanked by Cambodiatown and north Junipero Beach. With its appearance, Long Beach finally has its own modern Mexican seafood restaurant where you can pop in for a surf-and-turf aguachile and michelada made with hard-to-find Negra Modelo on tap.