Yucatan

Cookbook of the Year: Gran Cocina Latina A Spicy Bolivian Peanut Sauce Recipe

What happens you combine a culinary pedigree that includes a Latin American/Spanish market and pastry shop (Ultramarinos) and two restaurants (Zafra & Cucharamama in New Jersey) with a doctorate in medieval history? Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America, a 900-page homage to Latin American c ... More >>

Skrillex Considered Having His 12/21 Party on the Moon

Every EDM DJ worth his wobbles is throwing a massive party on Friday, aka the winter solstice, aka the end of the world. The ambitious ones are doing it near Mayan ruins on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula. The even more ambitious ones are venturing to the Great Pyramid of Giza, which is where the Do Lab ... More >>

Mayan Apocalypse Parties

Things to do in Mexico when the world's ending

Top 4 Weekend Food Events: Abigaile's Kitchen Takeover, Chichen Itza Tamale Class, Gingerbread Skid Row Young Folks Family Supper

The Kitchen Takeover at Abigaile Manhattan's Abigaile will open its kitchen to chefs from around the city for each to create courses that celebrate their personal style. Guests include Bernhard Mairinger of BierBeisl, Lara Mandracchia of Cake Bakeshop, Meg Hall of Made by Meg Catering and John-Carlo ... More >>

Yucatán's Longaniza: Where to Get It in Los Angeles

You may never have heard of it, but one of the world's great sausages is right here, under your very nose. It's the famous longaniza of the city of Valladolid in Yucatán. The L.A. version doesn't just pretend to be authentic. It's the real thing, vibrant with Yucatecan seasonings such as seasone ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: L.A. Taco Fest, Lucky Rice Night Market, Plate by Plate Fundraiser, Chichen Itza Seafood Class L.A. Weekly Pancake Breakfast

Los Angeles Taco Festival Enjoy some of Boyle Heights' and East L.A.'s best tacos, from birria to carne asada to shrimp, as well as live mariachi music, arts and crafts at this new outdoor event. Proceeds go to support Jovenes Inc., a nonprofit that provides housing for homeless youth. WHAT: L.A. T ... 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 >>

Are You Crazy Enough for Chichen Itza's Habanero-Eating Contest?

We're not sure if this would be considered a treat or torture for Dad, but on June 17 Chichen Itza Restaurant is hosting their second annual habanero-eating contest as part of Mercado La Paloma's Father's Day celebration. Chichen Itza specializes in cuisine from the Yucatán Peninsula (we're big fan ... More >>

98: Chichen Itza's Cochinita Pibil

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 98: Chichen Itza's Cochinita Pibil. You know the drill. Wind your way down the 110, past the concrete universe of downtown L.A., LA Live and USC, and into the ... More >>

Top 5 Places to Eat off the Metro Expo Line

If you ride the Metro regularly, or more likely, tell yourself that you should be riding the Metro regularly, the recently opened Exposition line should come as exciting news. Culver City residents now have the western terminus of L.A.'s rail system at their doorstep (somewhat), which means a journe ... More >>

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 >>

Jeremiah Tower's Cookbook Collection

JeremiahTower.comJeremiah Tower on the beach​Cookbook collectors, get moving. Speed is necessary if you're going to snag a choice book from the collection that celebrity chef Jeremiah Tower has sold to Omnivore Books on Food in San Francisco. "They've gone fairly quickly," says rare book exp ... More >>

Jonathan Gold's 10 Best Dishes of 2011

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 12/19-12/23

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "When properly cooked, its texture becomes less like rice than a kind of fluffy, chewy couscous, brilliant at absorbing flavors from dribbles of fish sauce and random splashes of oil." Night of the ... More >>

Chichén Itzá's New Cookbook a Recipe for Sopa de Lima

​If you're a fan of the Yucatecan food at Chichén Itzá in the Mercado La Paloma, you can now make your favorite dishes yourself. No kidding. All the recipes from the restaurant, and many more, are in a just-published cookbook by Chichén Itzá's founder, Gilberto Cetina (read the Weekly's Q ... More >>

Cheeseburger Week in Pasadena: Coming in January

J. Cabralcheeseburger at Biergarten​Pasadena will be hosting a "Cheeseburger Week" starting on January 15th and going until the 20th. It will feature various renditions of the cheesy meat sandwich by a handful of popular places, even a sushi restaurant. According to the press release (and Wik ... More >>

Chichén Itzá: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

Cookbook Review: Vegan Family Meals From Real Food Daily's Ann Gentry

​For the omnivore, the problem with so many vegan cookbooks is they can be so heavy with specialty vegan ingredients and/or laden with so many other health claims (gluten-free, low cholesterol), that they can read -- and taste -- more like a medical prescription than potential weekend palate e ... More >>

Where to Eat Near the Natural History Museum's new Dinosaur Hall

Kathy A. McDonaldA T. rex is poised to munch out at the Natural History Museum's new Dinosaur Hall​ Three Tyrannosaurus rex skeletons are posed dynamically, hovering over a skeletal carcass -- this is the dramatic centerpiece of the Natural History Museum of L.A. County's new Dinosaur Hall, wh ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews Spice Table

Q & A With Gilberto Cetina: Chichen Itza, His New Cookbook, The Scoville Scale The Happiness of Chowhound Guys

Facebook/Gilberto CetinaGilberto Cetina​Anyone who loves cochinita pibil, the Yucatecan dish of pork roasted in banana leaves, knows the well-traveled route to Chichen Itza in the Mercado La Paloma near USC just south of downtown, which also houses Ricardo Zarate's Mo-Chica. Chef-owner Gilbert ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: Gilberto Cetina's Tikin-Xic

A. ScattergoodTikin-Xic at Chichen Itza​ If you read our interview with Chichen Itza chef-owner Gilberto Cetina, you will have been reminded that the chef, besides running one of L.A.'s favorite restaurants and writing a soon-to-be-published cookbook on Yucatecan cuisine, makes a mean bottle o ... More >>

Tlayudas & Tequila at Taste of Mexico

Guzzle & Nosh​ Los Angeles, which seems to offer every iteration and regional culinary specialty of Mexico, may not need a festival like Taste of Mexico, but between need and desire lies a vast gulf. In this case, it's filled with tequila. And mescal and beer. And Oaxacan tlayudas, Guerreran c ... More >>

Q & A With Alex Moreno, Part 2: Turduckenizo Albondigas, Taking The Goat Out Of Birria, Moving Beyond Happy Hour

CASATacos de Camarones Fritos at CASA.​ In the first part of our interview with Alex Moreno, CASA's newish chef talked about his attempts to bring updated versions of other taqueria's dishes onto the menu. In part 2, Moreno gives more details, including his spin on classic dishes like birria ( ... More >>

Casa Downtown: Your Disney Hall Hangout Where to Go For Light Mexican Food

Valli Hermanchicken tacos at Casa Cocina y Cantina​ It wasn't so long ago that the idea of having a quick bite before a show at the Music Center or the Walt Disney Concert Hall meant eating a protein bar while you circled for a parking spot. Ladies and gentlemen, that is no way to start an ev ... More >>

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A Snack Without Borders: Kibbeh

D. GonzalezKibi at Mariscos Yucatan​ One type of appetizer, many different spellings. Kibbie, kibi, even quibe. Through migration and trade, kibbeh, a Middle Eastern meze standard, has integrated itself into the cuisines of Brazil, and Mexico's state of Yucatan. And since Los Angeles is hom ... More >>

Q & A With Dan Aykroyd: Why He's Making Crystal Head Vodka, Tomorrow's Bottle Signing A Cocktail Recipe

Crystal Head vodkaDan Aykroyd, with head​If you're the sort of person who has lost count of the number of times you've watched Dan Aykroyd's Julia Child SNL skit on YouTube, find yourself lurking at House of Blues to try and catch a glimpse of the actor, have seen Driving Miss Daisy an otherwi ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/10-5/14

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The bar side of the brasserie has superb cocktails; the crowd oozes and expands and breaks off into little budlets like the amoebas in documentaries you may remember from fifth-grade science class, and the cheese list, ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: The Pork of the Yucatan, Cochinita Pibil

If God exists, then His greatest gift to mankind may very well have been that delightful creature the pig (unless you're a member of one of the many religions that don't allow it, in which case it is God's ultimate cruel joke). It is a large, round being, packed to the brim with uncommonly flavorful ... More >>

Chichen Itza Closes Its MacArthur Park Location: Tonight's Last Supper Will Be A Celebration

Photo credit: Anne FishbeinSous-chef Jose Chan finishes a plate of cochinita pibil​Chichen Itza, the highly-regarded Mexican restaurant near downtown L.A.'s MacArthur Park that specializes in the food of the Yucatán, is closing as of tomorrow. It's the economics, said chef-owner Gilberto Ceti ... More >>

Messy Shoppers, Guatemalans and Lebanese Wannabes

Rivera, John Sedlar’s return to the kitchen

Tequila sunrise

The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

Theater Reviews: Bohemian Cowboy, Tartuffe, Black Women — State of the Union

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Kris Morningstar's New Casa: Guac y Roll

A mod Mexican lounge on Bunker Hill

Art Around Town: Korty, Grinnan and Butzer

A Federal Case

Eating D.F. style on both sides of town

Stuck in Xtacumbilxuna’an

Seeking Chichen Itza’s Hot Spots

A single drop of habanero salsa is enough to season a panucho. A small spoonful renders a vaporcito ­practically radioactive. And this isn’t even the hottest salsa Chichen Itza has to offer.

Decline and Fall

Viva Stilettos

Postcard from Mexico

Chicanos and the Man

Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

Best Dishes of 2004

Ask Mr. Gold

Welcome to the Concrete Jungle

John Powers in the land of no culture, surreal Cancún

Little Bites

Border Grill’s bocaditos

My Favorite Things, Part 2

Imports and adaptations

Liquid Diet

In the beginning, there was beer...

Los Zapatos de Yucatán