WHY For the enormous, flopppy-crusted tlayuda con todo, Oaxaca’s answer to pizza, the red mole and the delicate, delicious Oaxacan-style empanadas filled with things like huitlacoche (a mushroom-like fungus) or flor de calabaza (zucchini flower)—or even chapulines (grasshoppers). WHAT The vibrant colors inside this strip-mall café hold the promise of equally vibrant cooking, and La [...]
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WHY The many moles—black, yellow, green, red, colorado—served in tamales, with chicken, in all sorts of dishes. Good huevos for breakfast, too. WHAT A fine and most affordable Oaxacan café known for its moles and its breakfast (good cinnamon-infused coffee). Try the mole negro tamale and the huitlachoche and frijoladas, a wonderful mix of beans, [...]
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WHY Delicious, fresh licuados, smoothies and juices. WHAT In Mercado La Paloma, a nonprofit community center with restaurants, shops and meeting spaces, this Oaxacan stand makes very good juice drinks that go beautifully with the food from the famed Mo-Chica and the excellent Chichen Itza. Homemade ice creams, too. WHO Latino families and USC students [...]
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WHY Lobster chile relleno with tamarindo-hoisin sauce, grilled salmon with mole pipian and a spinach-garlic quesadilla, and grilled half-chicken with two moles. WHAT This nouvelle Oaxacan café serves very good, modestly priced southern Mexican dishes in a colorful dining room or out on a quiet walled patio. Note that while it shares a name with [...]
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WHY Cheap and tasty moles, goat tacos, and chicken soup with rice and avocado. WHAT To understand why Southern California is such a great place to live, head to El Texate in Santa Monica. Here you are, just a few blocks from the Pacific, eating a Oaxacan meal for less than $12, and it tastes [...]
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WHY Intensely flavorful, stick-to-your-ribs Oaxacan food served in a sunny yellow room by nice people. Live marimba music most nights. WHAT Only loosely affiliated with the better Guelaguetza in Palms (they’re owned by siblings, but the restaurants themselves aren’t related), this one is still a good and authentic Oaxacan place serving moles of every color, [...]
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