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List of where to get mango sticky rice in L.A.
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Cesar Hernandez’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridGo to Sylmar for the Best Asada Fries in L.A.
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Story about asada fries from a truck in Sylmar.
Grass-Fed and Grass-Finished Lies: How a Butcher From NELA Exposed One of California's Biggest 'S...
L.A. TACO
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Investigative story about Belcampo Meat Co incident where an ex-employee exposed deceptive practices in the company.
Hotbox Burgers: Made For The Community By The Community
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Profile of a South LA burger joint that makes burgers for the community by the community.
Breakfast Burgers Are Here To Beef Up Your Morning
LAist
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Long Beach-based smash burger pop-up Hamburgers Nice has a secret weapon. It starts with a patty of sage-tinged pork and beef that's smeared with tart raspberry jam, topped with grilled onions, crowned with a sunny-side up egg then tucked into a potato bun.
The L.A. TACO Guide to the Best Fish Sandwiches in Los Angeles, Mapped
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List of the best fried fish sandwiches in L.A.
The Pandemic Pushed Home Cooks To Up Their Game -- And It's Changing LA's Food Scene
LAist
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Story about home the 2020 pandemic forced many food vendors and pop-ups to go home.
The Dark Origin of Rosca de Reyes and Where to Find the Best Ones in Los Angeles
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Story about the rosca de reyes tradition and where to find them in L.A.
Bakers & Baristas In Survival Mode Is Tastier Than Most Places When They're Fully Operational
LAist
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Profile of Cerritos cafe Bakers & Barristas and how they changed their business in the pandemic of 2020.
Tea Raspados and Mexico's Finest Coffees Can Be Found at This New Mexican American-Owned Cafe in ...
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Profile of cafe in Downtown LA that serves tea raspados and Mexican coffee.
An Epic Guide To LA's 25 Most Epic Breakfast Burrito Spots
LAist
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I didn't understand the appeal of the breakfast burrito until I was sitting drunk in a booth at a Tam's Burger at 3 a.m. There, in my hands, I held the culmination of everything I understood to be breakfast -- an excess of potatoes, eggs, bacon and cheese.
'Explosion of Flavor:' Thai Mariscos Has Arrived in Los Angeles, via This Valley Gem
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Story of Thai restaurant in Sherman Oaks that serves Thai tacos and mariscos on Tuesdays.
Tamales are Christmas: Here is Where to Find Good Tamales in L.A. to Celebrate the Season
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It's a hot day in East Los Angeles - the sun always feels hotter here - and I'm on the hunt for tamales. Although it's not much of a challenge because East L.A. is a mecca of tamales. There are options everywhere. L.A. in general is a tamal city.
18 Years Of Al Pastor At Taqueria Vista Hermosa
LAist
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The al pastor at Taqueria Vista Hermosa is Raul Morales's most precious family heirloom. It helped him put two of his children through college. It convinced him to open a restaurant. It paved his road to success. And it all started in a small town in Michoacán.
Sweet, Fruity, Boozy Ponche Is The Flavor Of Christmas
LAist
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Show up at a Mexican household during the Christmas season and you'll likely be offered a hot mug of fruity, crimson-colored ponche to warm you up. "It's a drink de apapacho," says Ramiro Arvizu, who co-owns La Casita Mexicana in Bell, "a drink of nostalgia for those who can't go back to their country."
A Love Letter To The Lynwood Pizza Parlor That Raised Me
LAist
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I've been eating at Chico's Pizza Parlor in Lynwood my entire life. When I graduated high school, I went there with my family and we ordered the usual -- two extra large pies, a chopped salad and a pitcher of soda.
Meet Evil Cooks, The Flan Taco's Devilish Masterminds
LAist
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Mercurial is a good way to describe Evil Cooks. One day, the nomadic food pop-up will serve green chorizo made from scratch, the next they might dish out dessert tacos. Founders Pobre Diablo and La Bruja, aka Alex Garcia and Elvia Huerta, reject the idea of a set menu.
They Have a Nayarit-Style Smashburger! El Sereno's Best New Burgers Are Made By A Latina Couple
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Drive into the hilly streets of El Sereno and look for a house with a bright yellow sign, there's a strong chance burgers are nearby. Especially if that sign has an arrow and a burger on it. This elusive sign belongs to , a great new smashburger pop-up by Alicia Lopez and Cecilia Ledezma.
The L.A. Taco Guide to the Best Menudo in Los Angeles, Mapped
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Rhere's usually a brief moment of contemplation involved when eating menudo, Mexico's world-famous pansa soup. Where you consider a cow tripe's relationship with its digestion process. But it is a mental hurdle well worth getting over to enjoy a bowl of deeply comforting menudo and its highly sought after hangover-annihilating properties.
Snapper Friday: The Burger at Father's Office Is a Torta
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By now we're all familiar with the no substitutions rule with Father's Office's burger but if I could ask for one modification? Change the name and call it a torta. The torta umbrella fits chef Sang Yoon's creation better than a burger.
It's Time for This Hidden Cal-Mex Taco Dorado Specialist in the Arts District to Shine
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Betsy Leon wants to give you a piece of her childhood by way of a taco dorado. Chuy's Tacos Dorados is a two-year-old taqueria in the Arts District, and a recently opened Van Nuys location, that serves gloriously fried tacos. But Chuy's as it currently stands has only been around for about a year.
Behold the Pozole Taco, Here's Where to Eat It
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Part of L.A. Taco's Pozole Week, this story focuses on a place that sells a pozole taco.
It's Pozole Season in L.A., Here's Where to Find a Good Bowl: Blanco
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Part of L.A. Taco's Pozole Week. This story focuses on where to find pozole blanco.
It's Pozole Season in L.A., Here's Where to Find a Good Bowl: Rojo
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Part of L.A. Taco's Pozole Week. This story focuses on where to find pozole rojo.