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Los Angeles is one of the world's incredible strongholds of Mexican food culture. Here are our 8 Mexican restaurants in Los Angeles.

8. La Casita Mexicana

Photo of La Casita Mexicana - Bell, CA, United States. The front of the restaurant outside

At their milestone Mexican eatery in Bell, culinary experts Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu are pleased messengers of conventional Mexican cooking. The menu extends from the good countries of Jalisco (cueritos, meat shank marinated in an energetic red chile sauce) to the Yucatán (delicious, citrusy, banana-leaf-wrapped cochinita pibil), highlighting valued public dishes that exhibit the cooking's broadness and meticulousness.
Address: 4030 E Gage Ave, Bell, CA 90201, United States
Telephone: +1 323-773-1898

7. Burritos La Palma

t's hard to summon a more ideal food than the birria de res burrito at Burritos La Palma: a smooth challis of spiced, since a long time ago stewed destroyed hamburger merged to a frying pan crisped flour tortilla. It has an idealized over the long run quality that you can follow back to Jerez, Zacatecas, where the Bañuelos Lugo family opened a flour tortilleria in 1980 that has developed into what Burritos La Palma addresses today: an ideal association of rich flour tortillas and audaciously lavish stewed meats.
Address: 2811 E Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90023, United States
Telephone: +1 323-452-7005

6. Chaak Kitchen

Photo of Chaak Kitchen - Tustin, CA, United States

At her second Orange County eatery, Gabbi Patrick overviews and deciphers the culinary landscape of the Yucatán Peninsula. Her cochinita pibil, maybe the locale's most well known dish, is extraordinary — pork stained with achiote, smoked over red oak, maneuvered into studly strands and stacked into a pinnacle domed with salted onions. It is the sort of dish you can't leave alone until it's gone, regardless of whether you're now full from blended fish ceviche, custardy tamal colado with wild mushroom ragu and a fabulous bowl of brothy mollusks with green chorizo.
Address: 215 El Camino Real, Tustin, CA 92780, United States
Telephone: +1 657-699-3019

5. The Chori-Man

Photo of The Chori-Man - San Pedro, CA, United States. The store front - plenty of street parking BTW

In the slopes of San Pedro, Humberto "the Chori-Man" Raygoza is a fourth-age chorizo producer who took in the better places of hotdog making at his family's butcher shop in Zacatecas, Mexico. There he took in the careful work of crushing down pork shoulder to delicate tissue, and the essential commitment to toasting and beating new entire flavors until they are less substance than flavor.
Address: 2309 S Alma St, San Pedro, CA 90731, United States
Telephone: +1 424-287-2414

4. Guelaguetza

Photo of Guelaguetza Restaurante - Los Angeles, CA, United States. Oaxacan Mexican Restaurant in Koreatown

Moles are the crossword riddles of Oaxacan cooking. Their intricacies bother and challenge our minds; we need them like never before. Bricia Lopez and her family have made family dinners with one of four moles (negro, rojo, coloradito and the stewy variety, strengthened with almonds and raisins, known as estofado) and either barbecued chicken or pork carnitas.
Address: 3014 W Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90006, United States
Telephone: +1 213-427-0608

3. Guerrilla Tacos

Photo of Guerrilla Tacos - Los Angeles, CA, United States. Fancy Taco Restaurant in DTLA's Arts District

On the off chance that you recollect Wes Avila's solitary tacos served from a rough Arts District stand almost 10 years prior, you know the gourmet expert's courage: He realizes how to make a circumstance work. Tacos remain his range on which to blend current Angeleno flavors, including top picks like yam with feta, almond salsa and seared corn.
Address: 2000 E 7th St, Los Angeles, CA 90021, United States
Telephone: +1 213-375-3300

2. Guisados

Photo of Guisados DTLA - Los Angeles, CA, United States

There's conceivably no more prominent euphoria than clustering around a taco truck late around evening time, in nearness to companions and outsiders, eating newly arranged tacos. This custom has been significantly lessened by the pandemic. At Guisados, Los Angeles' robust taco miniature chain, insightful takeout bundling goes far toward supporting the glow, surface and moment delight of eating new tacos.
Address: 541 S Spring St #101, Los Angeles, CA 90013, United States
Telephone: +1 213-627-7656

1. Holbox

Photo of Holbox - Los Angeles, CA, United States

The Baja blood mollusks arranged by Gilberto Cetina Jr. at his objective fish stand satisfy their name: They look mortally injured, however their flavor, coaxed out by a couple of drops of lime juice, tastes just daintily, freshly briny.
Address: 3655 S Grand Ave #C9, Los Angeles, CA 90007, United States
Telephone: +1 213-986-9972

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