Broken Spanish

, watchfully distanced and ultimately well fed. Family meal with pork belly chicharrón from Broken Spanish (Bill Addison / Los Angeles Times) Broken Spanish Ray Garcia funnels a few headliners from his downtown restaurant’s modern Angeleno menu into generous

family-style meals. Choose between three mains: a horseshoe-shaped hunk of pork belly chicharrón (a Broken Spanish signature), achiote-roasted chicken or a vegetarian chile relleno swathed in cream sauce. Handmade blue corn tortillas are useful for

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) 784-0044, bontempsla.com Broken Spanish The entrees on Ray Garcia’s family meals ($32 per person) rotate weekly — maybe achiote-roasted chicken or pork chile verde, and there’s always a vegetarian option — but fragrant blue corn tortillas and creamy

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, bestiala.com (Silvia Razgova / For The Times) 27. Broken Spanish As the restaurant’s name alludes, the key to relishing Ray Garcia’s cooking is to not dwell too much on province or region, or where true-minded Mexican culinary traditions blur with Angeleno

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How is Broken Spanish? Your opinion of the place, a modernist Mexican restaurant a few steps from Staples Center, is probably going to depend on what you think about the idea of chopped snout in your sweet potato. If you are of a certain adventurous

is a tasty, reasonable dish. On the other hand: snout. Or as the menu has it, trompa. And as glam as the indoor-outdoor dining room may be, as intoxicating as Mike Lay’s mezcal-based cocktails and as cheerful as the waiters, Broken Spanish is a kind

“caviar” on the menu, I’m convinced it belongs on nothing else. The tamal is made from sweet and earthy 898 squash, a variety bred by the Row 7 seed company to be concentrated squash flavor bombs. Garcia, who was the chef at the late Broken Spanish and B.S

Los Angeles Times Food Bowl, presented by City National Bank, is hosting a dinner to celebrate the plurality of Los Angeles dining. Valerie Gordon, along with Ray Garcia (Broken Spanish), Mina Park and Kwang Uh (Shiku) and the team from Chengdu

While many restaurants are making the tough decision to shutter until dine-in business resumes, Broken Spanish chef Ray Garcia is reviving downtown’s B.S. Taqueria. Closed since last spring, the resurrected B.S. is launching a weekly taco night—on

Spanish between 4 and 10 p.m. on Tuesdays. B.S. Taqueria at Broken Spanish, 1050 Flower St., downtown.

Tuetano Taqueria, who will be making birria Nov. 5-7. Eduardo Ruiz of Corazon y Miel and Chica's Tacos will take over week four, with "modern Mexican American" tacos Nov. 12-14. And Ray Garcia of Broken Spanish and BS Taqueria will finish the series with

Alta California tacos Nov. 18-21. "Looking at some of the restaurants that have closed, I wanted a chance to promote them and give them an opportunity to have some sales and some publicity," Esparza said. Corazon y Miel, Broken Spanish and BS Taqueria

, including outposts and new restaurants from Ray Garcia (Broken Spanish); Bricia Lopez (Guelaguetza); Kris Yenbamroong (Night + Market); and many others. Chef Ray Garcia at his new restaurant, ¡Viva!, located inside the newly opened Resorts World Las Vegas

dining, the Los Angeles Times Food Bowl, presented by City National Bank, is hosting a dinner with some of the city’s most lauded chefs. Gordon, along with Ray Garcia (Broken Spanish), Burt Bakman (Slab BBQ), Mina Park and Kwang Uh (Shiku), and the team