¡No Jodas! Kitchen - Best Cuban Food Truck in L.A.
Their most popular sandwich, El Cubano, laden with slow-roasted pulled pork, ham, grilled onions, mustard, pickles, and drizzled with their famous secret sauce oozed melted Swiss cheese when I took a bite.
Taco Nazo, World’s Best Fish Tacos
Taco Nazo has been home of the world’s best fish tacos since 1978. Thelma Garcia’s parents, influenced by their seaside roots of Ensenada, started the business out of a catering truck in La Puente over 30 years ago...
Homegirl Café Features An Innovative Menu Of Contemporary Latina Fare
Last week we posted a blog describing our visit to Homeboy Industries located in Chinatown. At the end of our tour, my mom and I popped into the Homegirl Café, a division of Homeboy Industries. The café also assists at-risk and formerly gang-involved young women and men get back on their feet through employment by [...]
The Best of Mole on the Westside
From mole negro and goat tacos to empanadas and cactus fruit sorbet, Monte Alban offers a diverse, delectable cuisine carefully prepared with the freshest ingredients. Tucked away in a tiny non-descript strip mall on the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. near Bundy, Monte Alban gets lost between the CarnicerĂa (meat shop) and El Super Taco.
Takosher 'The chosen Taco'
I was driving down Wilshire Blvd. on my way to an interview and had to do a double take out of my rear view mirror to see if I had really just seen the Star of David plastered across the side of what looked like…a kosher taco truck?? “Takosher, the Chosen Taco.”
Los Angeles Magazine’s 5th Annual Food Event
On Sunday, October 24th, we indulged in Los Angeles magazine’s 5th annual culinary extravaganza at Saddlerock Ranch carefully tucked away in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains in Malibu. This year was especially spectacular given Los Angeles magazine was celebrating their November “Mexican Food Lovers Guide” as well as their 50th anniversary. Who would [...]
A Cuban Speakeasy Hidden in East Hollywood
Latin in LA TV hit the Los Angeles magazine Great Nights Out October issue release party on Tuesday, September 28th at La Descarga, chosen as one of the “top 25” hottest spots in the city. Theme: Brazil meets France at a little Cuban speakeasy vintage rum bar in East Hollywood...
¡Eh’ Ave Maria!
Ask any Colombian in Los Angeles – they know La Fonda Antioqueña. For 25 years, Germán Rodriguez has worked in the restaurant – 10 years as a waiter and 15 as owner. When Don Germán arrived to the U.S. from Manizales, Colombia, he started as a bus boy in a Mexican restaurant in Pasadena...
Silvio's Brazilian BBQ
When most people hear “Brazilian food” they think churrascarĂa, but Silvio’s Brazilian BBQ is different. When Silvio Correa met his business partner Doug Howarth, he could say no more than “Hello my friend.”  Now, 10 years since Silvio arrived in the U.S., he’s turned his life-long passion of BBQing in the backyards of friends into [...]