Michoacan

10 Best Carne Asada Fries in Los Angeles

Carne asada fries don't travel well, practically and ideologically speaking. They're increasingly hard to locate as you drive north from San Diego county, and surprisingly rare in Los Angeles, a city teeming with Mexican food, college students and medical marijuana cards. Piles of freshly fried spud ... More >>

10 Best L.A. Restaurants That Closed in 2012: An Elegy in 10 Parts

The conclusion of every year is a time to catalog both beginnings and endings, to look back over what exactly happened in the twelve months now drawing to a close. Which means that we're getting a lot of lists -- thank you, David Letterman -- as we calibrate and recalibrate, and remember, or try to, ... More >>

Celebrate Día de los Muertos at Mercado La Paloma: Tamales, Atole Sugar Skulls

If you're a Día de los Muertos -- or Day of the Dead -- fanatic, head to Mercado La Paloma this Sunday to celebrate with non-stop music, dance, theatrical performances and food from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. The program has been arranged in collaboration with Xamanism. (Admission is free.) The theme is ... More >>

Anel Violeta Noriega Rios, Alleged Mexican Drug Cartel Ambassador, Arrested in L.A.

The bloody war between drug cartels in Mexico is being fought largely over which one will control turf that leads mostly to the California border and ... Los Angeles. Yes, we're the illicit drug capital of a hungry drug nation. All roads lead to L.A. Strangely, you rarely hear about cartels operati ... More >>

Best Vegetable Candy: La Zamorana's Candied Squash and Sweet Potato

If you've eaten those garnet-hued camote (sweet potato) nuggets and amber chunks of candied calabaza (squash) at local dulcerias , chances are they're from East L.A.'s La Zamorana. Since 1957, this tiny family-run factory has been churning out the authentic Mexican candies you wish your abuela still ... More >>

La Monarca: Best Bakery That Might Have Been Named by Nabokov

State Library and Archives of FloridaA monarch butterfly on a Pentas flower.​Were he alive and living in Los Angeles today, writer, poet, synesthete and -- lest we forget -- lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov might have been found at La Monarca. Named for the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), ... More >>

Margarita Cabrera at Walter Maciel Gallery: Trying to Bridge the U.S.-Mexican Border

Courtesy of Walter Maciel GalleryCabrera's butterflies are each stamped with an impression of the U.S. penny​Farm implements and tools made of clay and decorated with ceramic birds, flowers and butterflies greet viewers entering the Walter Maciel Gallery, works from the Arbol de la Vida (Tree ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Antojitos Carmen

Your Counter Intelligence Preview: In Which Mr. Gold Visits Antojitos Carmen

Anne Fishbeinchicken cooking in the mole at Antojitos Carmen​ This week, Jonathan Gold visits Antojitos Carmen in Boyle Heights. More adventures in street food, the joys of brick-and-mortar locations, and chicken in mole. There are restored pictures on the wall, mostly from Castellanos' vill ... More >>

AltaMed Focuses on Food of Michoacán a Recipe for Chilled Avocado Soup

B. HansenLotería Grill's green mole taco​ AltaMed's sixth annual East LA Meets Napa wine and food tasting July 8 at Union Station will focus on a single Mexican state, Michoacán. Last fall, UNESCO named Mexican cuisine an intangible cultural heritage of humanity (France is the only other ... More >>

Chicano Batman: Los Superheroes

Celebrating National Salsa Month: 5 Places to Salsa

LA Weekly Flickr pool/R. E. ~Mexicali Taco & Co.'s salsa fresca​ It's May, which means it's National Salsa Month, (it's also National Hamburger Month, but we already pre-celebrated in our original burger round-up in February). Apparently, this commemorative holiday comes courtesy Pace Foods, ... 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 >>

Q & A With Winemaker Rolando Herrera Of Mi Sueño: Vineyards, Baseball The Teenage Career Plan

Mi Sueño WineryRolando Herrera​Five minutes into a conversation with Rolando Herrera, the owner-winemaker at Mi Sueño in Napa, it's clear that what first comes across as shyness is really more of a quiet conviction for winemaking. He didn't come from a longstanding winemaking pedigree. He di ... More >>

Pork, Glorious Pork

Quell carnitas craving at Cacao Mexicatessen

The Top 20 Mexican Restaurants In and Around L.A.

B. Hansenchefs awaiting awards​ The latest list of best Mexican restaurants in Los Angeles comes from Sabores Auténticos de Mexico (Authentic Flavors of Mexico), a non-profit founded to promote authentic cooking outside of Mexico. The awards were presented Tuesday at a cocktail party and din ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: Quelling That Carnitas Craving at Cacao Mexicatessen

Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: Where can I find good carnitas? I'm thinking like the kind I'd get off the taco trucks in Oakland -- we loved to go to El Ojo de Agua. Relatively close to Pasadena would be nice. --Nina K. Dear Ms. K.: You are, alas, a few years too la ... More >>

Welcome to Mi Pueblito: The Small-Town, Family-Farm Lifestyle That We Cherish Is Being Preserved Thanks to Mexican Immigrants

Weenies and Wings Fit for a Prince

At Barn Rau, it's Muslim food, home style

Happy Summer: Top 10 Paletas and/or Popsicles

J. KoslowPopshop Creations​ With Southern California's sunny climate and proximity to Mexico, the paleta has been alive and well for decades. Now that the NYT has conveniently proclaimed that ice cream sandwiches are out and frozen-treats-on-a-stick are back in, we thought we'd look around L ... More >>

Los Alpes: an Icy Taste of Hell

And other paleta flavors

Ask Mr. Gold: An Icy Taste of Hell, and Other Paleta Flavors at Los Alpes

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menu​Dear Mr. Gold: You seem to spend an awful lot of time tweeting about popsicles, many of them with flavors I have never contemplated in a popsicle before. While I know that the provenance of these things is probably something of a state sec ... More >>

Woman Sexually Assaulted By Possible Lawman Who Pulled Her Over On 405 Freeway

​A woman reported to authorities that she was pulled over on the 405 freeway near Lennox and sexually assaulted by a man claiming to be a law enforcement officer, La Opinion newspaper reported over the weekend. Sheriff's officials say one of their patrol units was involved, but it's not clear ... More >>

Duck Duck Taco: CACAO MEXICATESSEN

Confitlike carnitas, hecho en Eagle Rock

Feds Hit Mexican Drug Cartel in SoCal

Federal agents today and Wednesday fanned out across Southern California and the rest of the nation in what has been described as the largest domestic crime strike against a Mexican drug cartel. Twenty-four people were arrested locally and three area cells related to the La Familia cartel were targ ... More >>

Brainy Tacos

Gray Anatomy Con Queso

Mexican Pride and the Reconquista

Ask Mr. Gold: Gray Anatomy Con Queso

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinMr. Gold, with dim sum menuDear Mr. Gold: I was wondering if you have any recommendations for tacos de sesos in Echo Park or surrounding neighborhoods. It seems brains are more difficult to come by than they were in the past. --Nicole, Echo Park Dear Nicole: Sesos aren't ... More >>

La Luz del Dia on Olvera Street Celebrates its 50th Anniversary

In these uneasy economic times, when food trucks materialize seemingly overnight and established restaurants can close their doors just as quickly, it's comforting to celebrate a local favorite that's been around for half a century. La Luz del Dia on Olvera Street turns 50 years old next week. And w ... More >>

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

Mortar fire

Mo-Chica: The Best Peruvian Ceviche Might Be in a Warehouse South of Downtown

Raw deal

Mexican Slang: “To Fuck,” by Any Other Name

Pork in the Time of Swine Flu: Mexico City's Pig Cuisine, Snout to Hoof

Highland Park's Antojitos Chilangos and Metro Balderas

Taco Madness 2009: Last Chance to Vote for LA Taco Immortality

Online polls close Sunday at midnight in LAtaco.com's first-annual Taco Madness tourney. In the championship's final round, it's all about Los Feliz versus Santa Monica. Yuca's or Tacos Por Favor? Will this contest be about rallying neighborhood support, or about the place that inspires taco love ci ... More >>

The 10 Best Dishes of 2008

Hot dogs and hominy, blowfish and a fine cup of joe

A Week in the Life of Jonathan Gold's Stomach

Dear Diary

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

Immigration bill looks a lot like The Fly

¡Ask a Mexican! Brownie Mix

A Bunch of Toro

Jonathan Gold’s 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants - Part 2

From The Hungry Cat to Providence

Ask Mr. Gold

New to the List

Love, From Los Angeles

Ask Mr. Gold

Ask Mr. Gold

Border Calls

In the Mexican desert, a sanctuary for worried migrants

Music Reviews

Letters

Macaroni & Cheese

And the crossing of cultural borders