13352 West Washington Boulevard @ Glencoe ~ Mar Vista ~ TACO MAP
Taking home a box of Tamara's tamales hits you with that same feeling you get from the intro to Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A cavalcade of colors and experiences await your senses in the multi-flavored varieties of banana-leafed/corn-husked little beauties, just like the "whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers" in Hunter's classic tome.
Tamara's waits in a corner of a Mar Vista strip-mall that is heavy on ex-pat eateries popular with the Costco crowd from across the street. This gem is the most pleasing, both in cuisine and atmosphere. Tamara's is a blur of icons homegrown like Frida and the Virgin Guadalupe, as well as imported, like the Haile Selassie we so appreciate making his way onto the collage of religious iconography...
