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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 >>

The Taco Madness Tournament Returns to L.A. Taco

Don't believe all of that NCAA basketball hype; there's only one single-elimination bracket to worry about this month, and L.A. Taco has it covered. The alternative arts/food/culture site has just released the 5th annual version of their extremely popular Taco Madness tournament, which pits the city ... More >>

Mariscos Jalisco: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Q & A With USC Professor Sarah Portnoy: On Latino Food in L.A

We all eat for pleasure. Some of us also eat in pursuit of academic knowledge. "Food studies" is a burgeoning field where scholars consider food a potent tool for illuminating a vast range of topics and issues. Among L.A. colleges and universities, you'll find classes on "Animal Ethics," "Restaurant ... More >>

Los Tacos Los Angeles: A Taco Photo Compilation

For Angelenos who grew up eating tacos -- at home, in taquerías, at old school taco trucks or at fancy nuevo food trucks, in both high and low end restaurants and probably every restaurant in between, at barbecues and picnics, and late at night sitting on the hoods of their cars -- the glories of t ... More >>

Maná Gets Inducted Into the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk

Mexican rockers Maná made their mark in concrete as the foursome were inducted the Hollywood Guitar Center's Rock Walk yesterday. Like Bon Jovi, The Boss and Guns N' Roses all rolled into one (but from Guadalajara, Jalisco), Maná has garnered dozens of accolades -- including winning eleven Grammys ... 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 >>

Food News Roundup: 11 Things You Didn't Know About Wheaties, Paul Ryan's Vegan Speechwriter Homemade French Fries

Smithsonian: The 11 Things You Didn't Know About Wheaties. LA Observed: Paul Ryan's new speechwriter is, among other things, a vegan. Bon Appetit: How to make the best homemade french fries ever. Grub Street LA: Jon Shook and Michael Voltaggio head to Baja. The Huffington Post: Nancy Pelosi's ob ... More >>

Vendors Announced for 2012 L.A. Street Food Fest

One of the year's biggest food festival has gotten even larger this year. The L.A. Street Food Fest, which takes place on July 21 inside the Rose Bowl, just announced that it has upped its vendor counts to a staggering 100 participants, far exceeding the count from last year. The cast includes man ... More >>

Neat Bar's Tequila and Sangrita

Glendale's Neat Bar, a bare-bones watering hole located in the shadow of the Verdugo Mountains, serves what could be best described as the anti-cocktail. Sure, the bar's well-lit back wall is filled with an impressive selection of spirits -- the variety of single-malt scotches alone is enough to mak ... More >>

Raul Ortega: The Truck Stops Here

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The most remarkable clue that you have arrived at Mariscos Jalisco, a lonchera parked on Olympic Boulevard in Boyle Heights, is in the air. A few blocks away, the climate is no ... More >>

10 Best Tacos in Los Angeles

Los Cincos Puntos, one of our favorite places for a taco, is located right near a cemetery. This is fitting, in a way: After all, in Los Angeles, nothing can be said to certain, except death and tacos. Indeed, we're willing to bet that if you peeked in backyards across town during Memorial Day week ... More >>

Tamales at Guisados

If you're going to Guisados, the Boyle Heights eatery that, along with Mariscos Jalisco, just won LA Taco's epic Taco Madness 2012, you undoubtedly are going for one, or two, or three of its famed stewed and braised tacos. But tear your eyes away from the long list of available taco fillings chalke ... More >>

Two Winners in LA Taco's Taco Madness 2012: This Way Madness Lies

LA Taco's Taco Madness 2012, an annual NCAA-style tournament to determine who reigns taco supreme in Los Angeles, concluded last night, and madness it was. The exciting finale between Mariscos Jalisco and Guisados was so close that it required multiple recounts and caused a temporary bit of confusi ... More >>

Voting Begins in LA Taco's Taco Madness 2012: Help Crown the Next Taco King or Queen

If your March Madness brackets are already looking pretty dismal, look, as you always should, to tacos for your saving grace. LA Taco kicked off Taco Madness 2012 last week, its annual NCAA-style tournament that pits our favorite taquerias against one another to determine the king or queen of the t ... More >>

La Casita Mexicana: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

LA Street Food Fest: Photo Gallery

Carmageddon? Where? The traffic-nightmare-that-never-was (westside to Pasadena in under 30 minutes!!!) may have kept cars off the road and eaters from attending LA Street Food Fest, but their loss was our gain. With few lines, we managed to sample from EVERY vendor at the festival. Yes, every v ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Señor Bayless Where To Eat Regional Mexican Food in L.A.

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: Chef Rick Bayless has continuously told the media that he thinks L.A. is a "timid" food city and that we do not have as good regional Mexican cooking as what he can find in Chicago. He seems to think that we only have "California" Me ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Top 10 Pico Boulevard Eats

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: Have you published a list of the 10 best places for L.A. street food and/or "dives"? I'd like to tour them on bicycle, so if they are concentrated in one general area, that would be best -- and hopefully a slightly more urban area l ... More >>

¡Viva Sangrita! Contest at The Edison Tonight

​Largely unknown outside of Mexico, sangrita is a tart, red, spicy drink not to be confused with sangria. Customarily served with a shot of tequila, the classic Mexican cocktail whose name means "little blood," finally gets its due. Tonight at The Edison, a trio of high-flying bartenders know ... More >>

Last Night: Top 10 Quotes from KCRW's Global Street Food Panel

Guzzle & NoshCrowds wait in fron of the Nom Nom Truck (left); a taco from Mariscos Jalisco (right).​If you've been to some of the apallingly oversold food truck festivals of the past couple years, the sight of lines snaking around food trucks outside the Broad Stage on Sunday morning should ha ... More >>

Mexicali Crowned Taco Madness 2011 King: Probably Scored More Than Butler

T. Nguyen​ This was far, far more exciting than UConn v. Butler: this past Friday, the Baja-style meat tacos of Mexicali Taco Company bested the seafood tacos of Mariscos Jalisco in LA Taco's NCAA-March Madness style Taco Madness 2011 and was crowned king of LA taco-dom. At times, the spread ... More >>

Evan Kleiman Talks Global Street Food - Tickets on Sale Tomorrow

​Street food existed long before the myriad of Twittering food trucks took over Los Angeles. Evan Kleiman (chef/owner of Angeli Caffe, host of KCRW's Good Food) reminds us of that on May 1st, when she moderates the Global Street Food event featuring OC Weekly Managing Editor and food contribut ... More >>

L.A.'s Best Cocktails

Our 55 favorites and where to find them

The Cocktail Issue: Border Grill's Sangrita A Recipe

Anne FishbeinBorder Grill's sangrita​ This week's cover story is the cocktail issue, or L.A.'s Best Cocktails, in which Jonathan Gold considers, as you can probably infer from the title, the best cocktails in Los Angeles. To celebrate the happy event, we're giving you a cocktail a day here on ... More >>

Esteban Navarrete Shot at SoCal Restaurant Following Argument Over Which Mexican State is Best

A fight over Mexican supremacy ended up with a man shot.​Updates: Oh boy, this only gets better. Police told KNX 1070 Newsradio that the suspect was en route to (you guessed it) Mexico when he was arrested and noted that he had never been. Authorities allege his father was taking him there. ... More >>

Tequila Can be as Bad For the Environment as it is For Your Hangovers

A shot to the environment?​Tequila, as we all know, is the new vodka. And it's good for you if you like wake up in strange places, wipe your memory clean or get arrested. But maybe you didn't know that it's also starting to wreak havoc on the environment where it's made, in the Mexican state ... More >>

Remembering Jose "Pepe" Rodriguez: La Serenata In Santa Monica And His Happy Hour

Yelp user Joan S. La Serenata Santa Monica, Never A Glass Wall​Most weeknights, the Santa Monica outpost of La Serenata, the "other" Mexican restaurant on 4th Street in Santa Monica, resonates with a post-tequila calm that pales next to the constant laugh track and cocktail shaker buzz at Bord ... More >>

AWAY IN A DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION

Holy Mole: "Taste of Mexico" Coming in December

Guelaguetza.com​There's been much to say recently about what constitutes authentic Mexican food in Los Angeles, and who's bringing it. But perhaps we'll get our answer at next month's Taste of Mexico event, which celebrates Mexico's bicentennial via its cuisine. Four L.A. restaurants - ... More >>

City of Bell Corruption

The people yell over the smell in the hell that is Bell

La Casita's Latino Goodie Baskets

Barbara HansenLa Casita Mexicana chef-owners Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu​ A tisket, a tasket, what's in that basket? Obleas, glorias, chiclosos, alegrias, pepitorias, ates, cajeta, piloncillo, tamarindo, canela and much, much more. Even if you don't know what these are, you can e ... More >>

Under the Radar Cinco De Mayo Suggestions by Tijuana's Nortec Collective

​When it comes to Cinco de Mayo, you need to go where the pros go. Jorge Verdin, graphic designer and member of Tijuana music troupe Nortec Collective, could have a degree in torta-ology. Growing up in La Mesa neighborhood in Tijuana and touring all over Mexico (and the world) with Nortec Coll ... More >>

Top 10 Worst Potential McFood Ideas

Chris SaulitWhat can we get for you?​ Sometimes fast food restaurants come up with menu ideas that really make your brain hurt. Amazingly, they could be doing a lot worse. For every KFC Famous Bowl, P'Zone, Volcano Taco and Nacho Crunch Burrito, there are hundreds upon hundreds of far more te ... More >>

Drowning, Not Eating

L.A. is awash in tortas ahogadas

EL PARIAN WILL GET YOUR GOAT

A kid-friendly restaurant that brings Guadalajara home.

Mexican Pride and the Reconquista

At El Monte’s Birrieria La Barca Jalisco, spicy transcendence comes in a molcajete

Mortar fire

A Federal Case

Eating D.F. style on both sides of town

Rock Picks: The Humpers, Secretary Bird, Cut Chemist & DJ Shadow

For the week of June 21–28

¡Ask a Mexican! the Golden Screen

Why do we always think Mexican men drink tequila and sing mariachi tunes, while the women are pretty señoritas?

Argelia Atilano

Think pink in the morning

Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu

The Taste of Nostalgia

¡Ask a Mexican! Brownie Mix

Ask Mr. Gold

Despiertese, Despiertese!

Starting the day with Piolín

Variations in the Key of Taco

Mad Cow

Where's the beef? Right here, baby

Birria Forever! And Ever...and Ever...

Here's where to get your goat.

El Torero

Man vs. bull in the village of Cherán