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Cha Cha Chicken

1906 Ocean Ave.
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Category: Restaurant > Caribbean

Region: Santa Monica

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El Coyote

7312 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Category: Restaurant > Mexican

Region: Hollywood

El Gallo Grill

4533 E. Cesar E. Chavez Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90022

Category: Restaurant > Mexican

Region: East L.A.

Julienne's

2651 Mission St
San Marino, CA 91108

Category: Retail

Region: Pasadena and vicinity

Reddi-Chick

225 26th St.
Santa Monica, CA 90402

Category: Restaurant > American

Region: Santa Monica

Tacos Baja Ensenada

5385 Whittier Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90022

Category: Restaurant > Mexican

Region: East L.A.

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Tacos Baja Ensenada

Tacos Baja Ensenada is a cheerful restaurant in a converted hamburger stand near the heart of East L.A., a Formica palace echoing with bouncy ranchera music and decorated with maps, posters and post cards of La Bufadora, the sea spume 20 minutes south of Ensenada. Tacos Baja smells right, homey and oniony like a Mexican grandmother’s house, without a hint of seafood funk, and the various seafood cocktails -- octopus, shrimp, clam, though not the pata de mula -- are fresh and good. You‘ve come, no doubt, for what may be L.A.’s finest fish tacos: crunchy, sizzlingly hot strips of batter-fried halibut, folded into warm corn tortillas with salsa, shredded cabbage and a squeeze of lime, sprinkled with freshly chopped herbs and finished with a squirt of thick, cultured cream, lightly done, delicately flavored -- you could eat four in a minute and a half, and no doubt probably should, before they have a chance to cool. 5385 Whittier Blvd., East L.A.; (323) 887-1980. Open daily for lunch and dinner. Lunch for two, food only, $6--$14. No alcohol. Lot parking. Cash only.