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John Sedlar's Critically Acclaimed Playa May Be Closed, But With Rivera and His Museum Tamal, He's Still Cooking

Casamigos: George Clooney's New Tequila (Yes, The Bottle Is Hot) His Su Casa Cocktail Recipe

Always wanted to have a cocktail with George Clooney? Grab a bottle of Casamigos, Clooney and longtime friend Rande Gerber's new tequila label, and pull up Argo or Ocean's Eleven, or hell, even ER works. It doesn't matter. By morning, you'll be able to tell your friends all about that incredible nig ... 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 Cheap Eats in Los Angeles

As you may have noticed, this year's Best Of issue dropped on your doorstep, metaphorically if not actually, yesterday. There are hundreds (yes, hundreds) of listings, of spas and hikes and cocktails and grottos (yes, grottos), so many that you might get lost -- so many that we thought we'd pull ou ... More >>

Chicano Batman, Caped Crusader

[Editor's note: Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. Be sure to also check out the archives.] With the July 20 release of The Dark Knight Rises, the iconic Batman franchise returns for its seventh summer with the usual panoply of "pows," "bangs" and Chri ... More >>

Tapatio Blanco Now Available In L.A. How The Cult Tequila Finally Made It Stateside

After 75-years, Tapatio Blanco tequila is finally being imported to the U.S. For local tequila aficionados, you might say the news is sort of a big deal. Consider the Facebook reaction of Bill Esparza, a.k.a. Street Gourmet L.A., who has decades-worth of Tapatio suitcase stashing on his resume (and ... More >>

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

Maná - Staples Center - 4/19/12

Maná Staples Center 4/19/12 Better than ... Britney Spears at selling out Staples Center. Seriously, though. With this round of concert dates Maná has now surpassed Brit's record. Staples even held an official press conference about it Thursday afternoon. But let's talk about the show. Ultra hu ... More >>

Viva Los Dodgers 2012 Lineup Announced: Ximena Sariñana, Ana Tijoux, More

See also: *Ximena Sariñana: An Indie-Pop Star In Mexico, Anonymous In L.A. *Our review of Ana Tijoux at Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park Viva Los Dodgers, a festival celebrating Los Angeles' Latino culture, just announced this season's lineup exclusively through West Coast Sound. Held in Lot ... More >>

Our Tacos, Ourselves: How Southern California Reinvented the Taco

How Southern California discovered, gave birth to, reinvented and loved the taco for more than a century

L.A.'s Idea of Mexican Food vs. What Mexicans Really Eat

In this episode of Squid Ink's Venn Food Diagrams, we study Mexican food. Why? Well, because deep down, every single person in this city has a soft spot for the stuff. Whether it be Americanized or not, fajitas or tacos de guisado -- a taco is the archetypal Angeleno meal. In this city, a taco is ea ... More >>

Amelia Ceja of Ceja Vineyards on Wine With Mexican Food

You've picked out a good Cabernet. What should you serve with it? Beans -- Mexican beans. That's what Amelia Morán Ceja would do. Ceja is the first Mexican-American woman to head a wine production company, Ceja Vineyards. "People never thought to pair wine with Mexican food until we came along," s ... More >>

5 Best Margaritas In L.A.

Ten years ago -- maybe even five years in Happy Hour time -- compiling the 5 Best Margaritas in L.A. would have been a syrupy lime mix task. Now we're awash in so many small batch tequilas and fresh-squeezed lime promises on cocktail menus that the idea of a $100 margarita is somehow (?) not terrib ... More >>

Downtown L.A. Halloween Bar Crawl [Photo Gallery]

Guzzle & NoshPunch from Broadway Bar (top), the scene at Las Perlas (bottom), angry Scottish Highlanders from Seven Grand (right).​In Los Angeles, even the bars get dressed up for Halloween. This year, all eight of the downtown L.A. bars owned by Cedd Moses -- Casey's, Cole's, Las Perlas, Tony ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Antojitos Carmen

Jonathan Gold's Pico Picks

In Search Of: Chad Brown on Rare Country From Prison, Johnny Paycheck and the Phillipines

courtesy chad brown​ Chad Brown is an L.A.-based DJ and the singer/guitarist in CB Brand, and he may well know more about country music than anyone you're likely to encounter in this city. He is a true historian who recalls the backstories of each record in immense detail--from how he found i ... More >>

Street Food Comes to Angeli Caffe

Bill EsparzaRicky Piña of Ricky's Fish Tacos​If you've resisted driving deep into unfamiliar terrain to get great street food, you can now find it closer to home, that is, if you live mid-city or on the Westside. This Monday, July 26th, Angeli Caffe starts a series of Street Food on Melros ... More >>

Here Comes Another Taco Truck: Free Tacos That Taste of Tequila A Recipe

​Ho hum, another taco truck is rolling out. But wait until you hear what this one has to offer -- free tacos and taco fillings that are laced with tequila. The truck will travel all over Los Angeles and environs, starting with a launch in Glendale today, June 1st. During the next two months it ... More >>

Top Ten Musicians Who Cannot Tour Arizona Without Proving They're "Legal"

Carlos Santana: Papers please!​We don't know if you're aware of this, but Arizona has recently passed a little law demanding that every cop, security guard or random person in some kind of uniform and in possession of a Tazer stop anyone "suspected" of being an illegal immigrant and demand tha ... More >>

Photo Gallery: El Parian Will Get Your Goat

Need a visual aid for your print edition? Jonathan Gold visits the goat palace of El Parian on Pico Boulevard ("the broth sang with garlic and spice but mostly with a strong, goaty essence, a barnyard smack that could as well have come from the Jalisco mountains instead of from a restaurant a few bl ... More >>

Top 10 Metro Stop Eats: Eating On the Blue Line

In comparison to the intricate net of freeways gridding the Los Angeles basin--cutting through the mountains and running through the valleys, peppered with intricate overpasses, interchanges and clover-shaped off ramps--the LA subway/rail metro map is a simple one. With its nexus in downtown, three ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Food and Drink

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Meet your Food Blogger: Bill Esparza of Street Gourmet LA

Bill Esparza is a professional saxophonist, and the mouth and mind behind food blog Street Gourmet LA. He also teaches a class called Affordable Ethnic Dining at the Burbank Adult School, an eating-intensive class that takes students out into the streets of Los Angeles to diversify their palates and ... More >>

La Morenita Bakery Reopens in Cypress Park: Get Huaraches, Tostadas, even a Hamburger

Barbara HansenLa Morenita bakery​Want a huarache? Mexican pan dulce? A chocolate mousse? A few pounds of tamale masa? It's all at La Morenita, a newly re-opened Mexican bakery, restaurant and market in Cypress Park. The neighborhood, which is heavily Latino, is delighted to get the place back. ... More >>

East of the 5: Spreading the Eastside Luv in Boyle Heights

Eastside Luv flaunts local musicians and old school spirit of Boyle Heights.

Stage Raw: Phil Newby Remembered

CLASS CLOWN: PHIL NEWBY (1971-2009) The following article appears in print tomorrow (Thursday) The day after actor Phil Newby, 37, was found dead in his apartment last month, the victim of an apparent suicide, 200 company members and friends of Sacred Fools Theatre Company, where Newby perfo ... More >>

Where to Eat Now

El Sinaloense: Let He Who Is Without Sinaloa

... get to Huntington Park

A Week in the Life of Jonathan Gold's Stomach

Dear Diary

Mexican American Princes: ¡Mas Suave!

They’re handsome, charming and so good to their mothers. They’re Mexican American Princes, and they rule Los Angeles

¡Ask a Mexican!

Does the logo stay or go?

Naa Na Na Na Naa

How the West Coast Eastside sound changed rock & roll

Brown Dirt Cowboys

Meet Esteban Hills and crew, your gardeners

Hirsch’s Hornet’s Nest

Éminence grise of Hollywood lawyers provokes pain in parting

El Toro!

Monster Burrito

Variations in the Key of Taco

Girls Gone Ranchera

An encounter with the Mariachi Divas

Up All Night

On patrol with one good cop

An Exquisite Scar

Life and commerce along the Alameda Corridor

Notes on the Taco Gap

Demons on Broadway

Miracles. Exorcism. Catholic-bashing. Going for broke in the Universal Church.

See the Light

Ex–church members struggle to reclaim happiness and financial health

The Year I Ate Pico Boulevard

where have you gone, mr. coleslaw burger?

Consume Part I: Food

Forty-One Reasons to Live in LA