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10 Best Taco Trucks in Los Angeles

Think back, if you can, to a time before food fusion and "mobile gourmet dining experiences." When late night eating meant a 24-hour Subway, 4 a.m. Thai joint or one of the city's finest taco trucks. Remember the off-white loncheros that have crawled the construction sites throughout Southern Califo ... More >>

More Events: Best New Chef Dinners, Italian Passover Dinner Sandwich Deal

Best New Chef Dinners For two evenings, Ricardo Zarate, Stephane Bombet, Food GPS and Food & Wine will be hosting a collaborative multi-course dinner to celebrate the magazine's Best New Chef honorees at Paiche in Marina del Rey restaurant. Each night will feature a tag-team effort with Tuesday show ... More >>

Hipster Heaven

Cortez might seem like a parody of current food trends -- if only it weren't so good

Langer's Pastrami Delivery: From L.A. to You

The pastrami sandwich at Langer's Delicatessen is legendary. So delicious that it made our "100 Favorite Dishes" list. So distinctive that Nora Ephron deemed it "the finest hot pastrami sandwich in the world." So beloved that Angelenos regularly queue up for a taste -- and out-of-towners bemoan thei ... More >>

Adventures in Veganism: The Spot in Hermosa Beach

The menu at Hermosa Beach vegetarian restaurant The Spot Natural Food Restaurant indicates that the place serves desserts, but unless you're the reincarnation of Andre the Giant, you'll never know for sure. Because only the former Eighth Wonder of the World would be able to complete the Tamale Combo ... More >>

Los Poblanos Cemitas: More Fun With Tacos Arabes

If there's a better way to spend a warm evening sunset than cruising down East L.A.'s Whittier Boulevard, armed with an appetite and a pocketful of dollar bills, I haven't found it. The night might start with a few suadero tacos served on freshly made tortillas and end with crunchy churros fried to ... More >>

10 Best Moles in Los Angeles

Let's count the reasons we love mole. It's rich and intense. Warm and comforting. Spicy, yet sweet and often savory. A seamless blend of 20 to 40 (or more) ingredients that have been toasted, roasted, ground, blended and cooked. Radiant and colorful. A mix of Old World spices with New World chiles a ... More >>

10 Best Seafood Tacos in Los Angeles

It used to be, a dozen years ago or so, that there weren't that many spots in town where you could find a decent seafood taco, much less a great one. Fast forward to 2012, and fish and shrimp tacos have gone through something of an evolution. There are plenty of fish in the sea now; you can barely ... More >>

Joe's Falafel: Laffa Now, Smile Later

When fresh from the oven, the variety of Israeli flatbread known as laffa is delicious enough to inspire fever dreams: a stretchable, oval-shaped length of unleavened bread -- not dissimilar to a good Indian naan -- pulled just thick enough to form a kind of textural duality between its soft chewy i ... More >>

Status Report: Lamb Burger at Shaanxi Gourmet

Recently, we told you about the lamb sandwich ('Fried With Meat') at Beijing Restaurant. Our original plan was to compare it with another lamb sandwich, namely the lamb burger at Shaanxi Gourmet in Rosemead. At least that was the plan. On three visits, we were told they no longer served them. We ... More >>

Finally: L.A. Gets Mexican Food Worthy of Mexico's Grand Tradition

Jonathan Gold's 10 Best Dishes of 2011

10 Holiday Take-Out Menus: Where To Go for Great Food To-Go

Huckleberry CafeOld Fashioned Coffee Cake at Huckleberry Cafe​Holiday dinners are stressful enough. Ditch dinner reservations and hours in the kitchen for a ready-made holiday dinner. Step 1: pick your menu. Step 2: place you order. Step 3: pick up order. Step 4: Eat. There'll be ample time fo ... More >>

Cochinita Pibil Taco Fight: La Cabanita vs Chichen Itza

B. MesirowLa Cabañita's Cochinita Tacos​The versatility of the taco is well-documented, on these pages and countless others. There are as many potential taco fillings as there are kinds of food in the world, but not all of them are equally wonderful. (We know that Korean BBQ works but Taco Be ... More >>

Q & A with Monica May and Kristen Trattner of Nickel Diner, Part 2: Homeless Visitors Sugar Fairy Snap Tarts

A. FrougNickel Diner owners Kristen Trattner and Monica May​ In part one of our interview with Monica May and Kristen Trattner, owners of downtown's Nickel Diner, the two ladies explained how they moved from a cafe with no kitchens to a diner with two of them. In the second part of the interv ... More >>

A Recipe from the Chef: Pitfire Pizza's Heirloom Tomato Pizza

A. FrougHeirloom Tomato Pizza at Pitfire Pizza​ In parts one and two of our interview with Pitfire Pizza's owners Paul Hibler and David Sanfield, we learned about the design and recipe decision-making that allowed a 14 year-old restaurant chain to become a $10 million pizza behemoth. They make ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Insanewiches... Are They?

​Insanewiches. Yeah, we know. The burger cover image with a tongue. The title. And the more than frightening recipes. Did we mention the subtitle? 101 Ways to Think Outside the Lunchbox. This is not a kid-centric sort of publication. Confused? So were we. And yet, this just-released book is ... More >>

Eat This Now: Alambre Mexicano at La Tehuana

A. Frougalambre​ It had all started innocently enough. When it's late and the craving for tlayudas hits, La Tehuana is the only truck we trust to griddle our tortilla just the way we like it. But just as we were about to order, cash in hand, a new sign caught the corner of eye, and there began ... More >>

No Messing Around: Migas in Los Angeles

D. GonzalezMr "G" Migas at Nick's Taste of Texas​ Trends aren't always a bad thing. Of course, we aren't talking about overly precious mini-cupcake-on-a-stick trends. But the kind where we all benefit, like one that has chilaquiles popping up on brunch menus through out the city. Jar in Wes ... More >>

New Spirit: Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey Liqueur Our Huckleberry Variation

J. GarbeeBlueberry Focaccia Homemade Ice Cream Whiskey-Honey Liqueur. Jealous?​The honey craze hit the whiskey and bourbon trail long ago, Drambuie (honey whisky liqueur) and Wild Turkey American Liqueur (bourbon-honey) among them. Jack Daniel's is now joining the game with the release of ... More >>

Review: The Proof Is In the Pudding & The Strata & The Sweets at Proof Bakery

The stretch of Glendale Blvd. between San Fernando and the 5 -- broad and friendly, still dotted with genuine neighborhood businesses -- wasn't hurting for sweets or caffeine when Proof Bakery opened in mid-November. Neighborhood favorite Kaldi brews its house-roasted coffee strong, but its select ... More >>

Q & A With Whist Chef Tony DiSalvo: Homemade Meatballs, Sicilian Roots Tales Of A Private Chef

ViceroyWhist's Executive Chef Tony DiSalvo​From W Hollywood's Delphine to The Montage's Scarpetta to The Four Seasons' Culina, transforming L.A.'s hotel restaurants from forgettable to five-star is seemingly becoming routine. Now Tony DiSalvo (Gramercy Tavern, Jean Georges, Jack's) is making h ... More >>

Cookbook Reviews: The Wicca Cookbook A Magikal Mushroom Recipe For Halloween

Wicca This Halloween Weekend?​And now, to dispel your wildest Halloween assumptions (sorry). "No hard and fast rules exist in Wicca," begins the Introduction to the second edition of The Wicca Cookbook: Recipes, Ritual and Lore by Jamie Wood and Tara Seefeldt. "It is not based on a degree or a ... More >>

Truffled Lounge: Rockwell’s Architectural Comforts

Home of the Porno Burrito

But the true object of desire at El Atacor #11 is the awesome potato taco

Where to Eat Now: New to the List

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Welcome to La La Land

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Good, Better, Wurst

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Tacos like Mom used to make

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