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One of Tijuana’s Most Respected Taco Shops Just Opened in East L.A.
Tijuanazo, whose family-led owners just opened Taquería Frontera in Cypress Park, also just opened the first U.S. location of its Tijuanazo chain in East Los Angeles. Already, this newly transplanted taquería offers plenty to get excited about. It stands out on Atlantic Boulevard, even amid the extensive taco stand offerings surrounding East Los Angeles, with its meticulous approach to preparing each taco.
What To Eat This Weekend In L.A.: Grasshopper Burritos, Ghostbuster S’Mores at Horror Nights, and Cannabis Agua Frescas
Welcome back to L.A. TACO's weekly dining roundup!. We've noticed a massive uptick in Colombian street food in Los Angeles over the last few months. It feels like every week we're seeing a new spot for bandeja paisa, arepas rellenas, and mazorcada out there. We have two this week, including a specialist in barrel-smoked Colombian meats in the Valley and a place for Colombian rib stew and loaded hot dogs in Koreatown.
Long Beach’s New-School Mariscos Spot Is Unlike Any Other, With A Seafood Discada and Riff On Mexico City’s Most Iconic Fish Recipe
L.A.’s mariscos game is up there with those of the biggest cities in Mexico. Sonoran-style tostadas, stacked high with aguachile en salsa negra and served by a former minor league pitcher in Lynwood. Young coconut “mariscocos” in the streets of Compton, overflowing with pen shell clams and Pacific Ocean shrimp. And more than our share of perfectly flaky whole-fish pescado zarandeado around L.A. County.
This L.A. TikTok User Is Sharing Over 40 Bathroom Codes With His Followers and Isn’t Done Yet
Finding a public bathroom in Los Angeles in a pinch can be a major pain in the ass. Figuratively and otherwise. It doesn’t matter if you were born and raised here; if you’re a commuter, a transplant, or a tourist, finding a place to relieve yourself in an emergency, in the midst of navigating your way through the city, can feel all-but-impossible.
El Rey Del Corrido Rides Again: Chalino Sanchez’s Iconic Final Album Will Be Re-Released on Vinyl This Week
The phrase “The Man. The Myth. The Legend.” has been overused to the point of powerless parody, but if ever there were a single figure who could restore the truth to the phrase, it would be Rosalino Sánchez Félix.
Five L.A. Ceviches That Skip the Seafood For Ribeye Steak, Pork Belly, and King Oyster Mushrooms
We have no beef with fish. A zippy ceviche or bracing aguachile is a classic complement to any sweltering summer day in L.A. But not all of our friends can eat seafood. Nor does a ceviche necessarily have to be made within the margins of raw fish, shrimp, or mariscos marinated or cooked in citrus.
‘Jazz Is Dead’ Brings L.A. The Musical Legends That Your Favorite Hip-Hop Artists Sampled
Attending a Jazz Is Dead show is a retrograde blast into a modern music lover's most resonant corners of nostalgia. You enter a brand new world where art reigns triumphant, overcomes all, and emotion is expressed through a convoluted tapestry of breath blasting out of tubes, horns, and flutes, echoing through the dusty ridges of an old-fashioned vinyl player.
‘I’m Innocent:’ He Was Stabbed In Prison After Nearly 20 Years, Will D.A. Gascón’s Policies Help Free Him Before It’s Too Late?
After Curtis Wallace was sentenced to 46-years-to-life in prison nearly two decades ago, for a shooting he has always maintained he did not commit, he made his family a promise: one day he would make it home in one piece.
Celebrity-Owned, Formerly Vegetarian Restaurant in Koreatown Reopens, Adds Meat to New Menu
Olivia reopened in Koreatown this week with a new look. Along the way, the Danny Oh, Mario Alberto, and Anderson .Paak-owned restaurant has added a few non-vegetarian menu items to the still-mostly-vegetarian menu.
These ‘Bring Your Own Meat’ Grilling Parties From L.A.’s DIY Punk Community Are Raising Thousands of Dollars for Palestine
From the timeless allure of "BYOB" (Bring Your Own Booze) to the evolution of "No Snappers" and "Snappers Will Get Snapped On," acronyms and coded language consistently grace the esteemed art found within print gig flyers from L.A.'s DIY punk scene. Most of these notorious terms are meant to give you a heads-up about the night's entertainment.
Watch Evil Cooks and Estrano ‘Make Noise’ and Set Shit on Fire In This New Show On Indie L.A. Chefs
If we could design an ideal show on the vitality of L.A.'s food scene, it would be a little like our website. It may feature gratuitous shots of Evil Cooks chef Alex Garcia setting a giant trompo of octopi arms on fire with a flamethrower of Ramstein-ian proportions. It would involve Estrano chef Diego Argoti in stunner shades and a Cheech and Chong shirt, talking about his penchant for making noise. It would definitely have Nigerian chef Tolu ‘Eros’ Erogbogbo giving a cryptic welcome and not be afraid of throwing a Zapotec abuela who has come from Mercado Tlacolula to a Mid-City backyard into the whole punky, funky estofado.
L.A.’s Best All-Day Turkish Breakfast Is Built For Lingering For Hours at Mid-City’s Alchemist Cafe
Breakfast in the U.S. may be more verb than noun: an act of wolfing something formerly frozen in zombie mode amid dawn’s early light, in an obligatory duty to maintain sustenance before a day toiling in the hive.
Meet One of the Organizers Behind The Dodgers’ Salvadoran Heritage Night and Their Nonprofit Bringing Futbol Supplies to Central America
For the first time in the history of the L.A. Angels of Anaheim, the organization hosted its first-ever Salvadoran-Heritage Night this year in partnership with Academia de Futbol Juvenil Amatense (AFJA).
‘Microdosed’ Mushroom Yoga Has Arrived In Los Angeles. Here’s How to Take a Cosmic Class
Corpse pose hits differently on a gram of shrooms. This sentiment was shared by myself and the ten other people lying down in a dimly lit downtown yoga studio following a guided sequence of beginner-level asanas (poses), all under the influence of psilocybe cubensis. Among the psychonaut yogis was a licensed therapist who had never done mushrooms but was curious about them. At the end, a sound bath was performed.
WHAT TO EAT THIS WEEKEND IN L.A.: A Palestinian Woman-Owned Knafeh Cart in DTLA, Crimean Dumplings, and Guatemalan Revolcado
Mrs. Knafeh, owned by a Palestinian woman, is open daily from an adorable trailer in Downtown L.A., just west of the 110 Freeway next to the Orsini apartments. The truck prepares two kinds of knafeh, including Nabulsieh knafeh, traditional to the Palestinian city of Nablus, and a crispy knafeh made with shredded phyllo. Both are made to order. There are also crescent-shaped dumplings known as atayef, with fillings such as sweet cream, cheese, walnut-and-cinnamon, and cream cheese-and-coconut. One can also expect strong coffee and tea.
This Pioneering Mexican Restaurant Was One of the First in L.A. to Reject ‘Combination Plates’ In 1985. Now, They Are Struggling to Stay Open
Jose and Aurora Rodriguez founded La Serenata in 1985 in Boyle Heights. That was a pivotal era in L.A.’s Mexican food community, and Jose Rodriguez's culinary pursuits led him to become a pioneer in rejecting the “combination plate” standard laden with soggy tacos and burritos.
The Chilean Empanadas At This Van Nuys Street Stand Are So Good, They Sell Out By Sunset
The empanada is a food of deceptive simplicity. A portable pocket of dough bearing fillings of meat, cheese, vegetables, or mariscos. But it is all too easy to get empanadas wrong. Dry fillings. Dough that is too thick or too hard. A dud empanada is an arid starch bomb that no amount of red wine can save.
Five Ways L.A. Locals Knew Right Away That the Olympics Closing Ceremony Was Filmed in Long Beach, Not Venice
Hey, NBC. Real Angelinos can tell Long Beach and Venice Beach are apart. Even though Los Angeles’ hosting of the 2028 Olympics was established in 2017 , news networks and media outlets proved yesterday that they still can’t tell the difference between two notable seaside cities in Los Angeles.
Huge L.A. County Government Reform Will Be on Your Fall Ballot. How Will You Vote?
This article was originally published by L.A. Public Press , and is republished here with permission. This November, Los Angeles County voters will have the opportunity to vote on a charter amendment that, if passed, will begin a years-long process to reform the county’s governance structure. It proposes creating an independent ethics commission, expanding the powerful LA County Board of Supervisors , and adding an elected countywide executive office (aka a county mayor).
L.A.’s Next Top-Tier Taquería Brings Border-Defying Asada and Perfect Al Pastor to Cypress Park
Taquería Frontera made an immediate splash in Cypress Park's emerging restaurant scene during their soft opening last week. By bringing everything, from their tacos to their employees, from their family’s small Tijuana taco chain, Tijuanazo Taquerías , this new taquería embodies everything we love about Tijuana’s taco life. Most admirably, it’s built to encourage conversations on border politics by figuratively hoping to replace the borders people maintain between each other with their delicious Tijuana-style tacos.
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