You should probably be going to Mercado La Paloma anyway, because it's as close to a utopian Los Angeles as you're going to find, a cooperatively run marketplace whose second floor is home to nonprofits and neighborhood tutoring facilities, and its first to a warren of regional, Mexican crafts markets and reasonably priced restaurants, some with national reputations. You might end up at Chichén Itzá for a cooking class, a demonstration of pre-Columbian dishes or to take out a Yucatán-style Day of the Dead tamale big enough to feed the USC football team. The restaurant, run by the Centena family, is the most serious Yucatecan kitchen in town, its menu a living, chile-intensive thesaurus of the citrusy, fragrant, sometimes searingly hot cuisine of... More >>>