Gold Dig #57 I think Salazar might be the only spot on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list that he specifically notes for its website, which might seem odd until you check it out for yourself. I won’t even try to describe it, as it’s best if you just experience the awesomeness yourself. My first…
Tag: Taco
Kogi Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #43 Kogi started out as a Korean-taco truck, and has since expanded to three taco trucks (whose schedule you can find on their website) and two taqueria locations – one in a Whole Foods in El Segundo, and the one we went to in a little strip mall in Palms. The whole Kogi empire…
LocoL Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #40 LocoL is a fast food spot in Watts, which I think makes it onto Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list as much for its mission as for its food. I fully support this. While the food might not compare to high end places where one dish will cost you as much as a whole tray…
Cinco de Mayo
I’ll take any reason to gather around food, especially if it’s themed. So Cinco de Mayo was as good an excuse as any to do a taco night. Considering that we started floating the idea around late Wednesday night for a Friday party, it came together quite nicely. We had five different taco fillings, and…
Gone Fishin’
A friend invited a bunch of us to go fishing and then head to his place to fry up a feast from whatever we caught. Since eating is one of my favorite things, I loved the idea of participating in the full journey of my fish – from catching, to cleaning, to cooking, and to…
Mariscos Jalisco Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #17 Mariscos Jalisco was our second stop as we hopped from one taco truck on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list to another (check out my Guerrilla Tacos post to read about the other). The Mariscos Jalisco truck always parks at the same spot on East Olympic Blvd. There’s another truck with a similar name that parks just…
Guerrilla Tacos Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #16 There are a couple taco trucks on Jonathan Gold’s 101 Best Restaurants list. My cousin came into town for a couple days, and I talked her into taco truck hopping with me. It didn’t take much convincing. We went to Guerrilla Tacos first (also check out my post about Mariscos Jalisco, where we went…
Mexicali Taco Restaurant Review
Gold Dig #10 I should start by saying that Mexicali Taco suffered the fate of being the third feed stop in just a few hours on our 3-restaurant Gold Dig for the day. So it probably doesn’t get a fair shake when it comes to my assessment of the place, given that we were pretty…