Danny Trejo Just Added Two More Restaurants to His Empire
Danny Trejo just cannot be stopped. In less than two years, he’s gone from dipping a toe in the food-truck game to running a full-blown restaurant empire. And now his empire is once again expanding:...
View ArticleCarnitas El Momo Has Turned the Pork Taco Into an Art Form
Thwack. Thwack. The tarp-covered courtyard near 61st and Avalon where Carnitas El Momo sets up on Saturday mornings is tough to spy from the street, but the thud of meat cleaver against wood acts as a...
View ArticleThe Best Things to Do in L.A. This Week
Summer is here and the city is heating up with fun things to do. To help you get to the good stuff, we’ve picked the best things to do this week in L.A. Monday: Vincint at Skybar Mixed Feelings, the...
View ArticleThe Best Free Things to Do in L.A. This August
We’re getting ready for summer fun, but that doesn’t have to mean dropping a ton of cash. This round-up of August free things to do in L.A. will keep you entertained all month long. In addition to...
View ArticleHonor Jonathan Gold As He Might Have Wanted: By Eating Tacos
“For a while in my early 20s, I had only one clearly articulated ambition: to eat at least once at every restaurant on Pico Boulevard, starting with the fried yucca dish served at a pupuseria near the...
View ArticleThe Time a Food Truck Opened for Business on the 105 Freeway
After a tanker trunk collided with another vehicle on the 105 freeway in Hawthorne before sunrise on Friday (resulting in two deaths), traffic was at a standstill for hours. In a very L.A. turn of...
View ArticleEvery Taco at HomeState, Ranked
L.A.’s Mexican food is in a category all of its own, but we’d be remiss to overlook Mexican food by way of Texas. HomeState, with its two locations in East Hollywood and Highland Park, has become...
View ArticleDel Taco Is Teaming With Beyond Meat for a Vegetarian Fast Food Option That...
Starting today, Del Taco is making its menu a little more inclusive. If you head to two L.A.-area locations, you’ll be able to order tacos made with Beyond Meat’s vegetarian protein options....
View ArticleL.A.’s Best Taco Festival Returns This Weekend Under a New Name
At a time when food festivals happen almost constantly, it’s hard to imagine one worthy of the label “groundbreaking.” But that’s exactly what the L.A. Weekly event Tacolandia was when it debuted in...
View ArticleThis L.A. Writer Spent a Year Traveling to Mexico as “Taco Scout” for...
It might be impossible to watch a single episode of Netflix’s delicious new docuseries, Las Crónicas del Taco, without wanting to immediately hop on a plane to Mexico to taste all the tacos from the...
View ArticleMexico City Chef Enrique Olvera Goes Casual at DTLA’s Ditroit
For about a month this past fall, the stylish patio at Enrique Olvera’s Arts District restaurant, Damian, was L.A.’s buzziest place to dine. But when the county banned outdoor dining in November, the...
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