wizardry. — B.A. 712 S. Santa Fe Ave., Los Angeles, (213) 784-0044, bontempsla.com Strawberry and ricotta danish at Bon Temps. (Bill Addison / Los Angeles Times) Burritos La Palma (15) In Zacatecas, Mexico, the Bañuelos Lugo family name is synonymous with
Burritos La Palma’s buttery flour tortillas; birria made from carne de pierna de res (round steak); and first-rate chicharrón en salsa verde. The restaurant’s platillo especial is a modern-day classic: two beef birria burritos in chile verde pork sauce
. — P.I.E. 208 E. 8th St., Los Angeles, (213) 628-3710, sonoratown.com Burritos La Palma (15) In Zacatecas, Mexico, the Bañuelos Lugo family name is synonymous with Burritos La Palma’s buttery flour tortillas; birria made from carne de pierna de res (round
also mentioned turkey mole tamales packaged for freezing. Sold. Pickup only. 1050 Flower St., Los Angeles, (213) 749-1460, brokenspanish.com Burritos La Palma Long before the recent birria mania, the Bañuelos Lugo family perfected the birria burrito at
Have you heard about the burrito that won LA Weekly‘s Tacolandia event last year? It was an upset that propelled Burritos La Palma into legendary status. And that’s just one of its accolades. Jonathan Gold has called its birria de res one of his
swadling the burritos. These are the tortillas that began Bañuelos on his path to opening Burritos La Palma. He first sold his family’s secret-recipe tortillas at the farmers’ market near his home in Lake Forest. Spurred by his success, he opened a brick
with pastrami, cole slaw, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing. 704 S. Alvarado St., Westlake, langersdeli.com. Burritos La Palma The Bañuelos-Lugo family opened their first location in El Monte in 1980. In the decades since, the clan’s Zacatecan-style
at Sonoratown, the deshebrada (shredded beef in green chile) at Burritos La Palma and the cheese-gushing chile relleno option at La Azteca Tortilleria — tend to be more compact than their Mission-style counterparts. These I still eat top down; the
Moore) Olvera Street The beef barbacoa burrito at the Olvera Street concession stand at SoFi Stadium. (Shelby Moore) This is where you can find Burritos La Palma flour tortillas — the perfectly elastic and chewy tortillas used to make the restaurant’s
/For The Times) Aquí es donde puede encontrar las tortillas de harina de Burritos La Palma, las tortillas perfectamente elásticas y masticables que se utilizan para hacer los famosos burritos del restaurante. Aquí se utilizan para la barbacoa de res, la
2020 101 restaurants guide are some of the best examples of Mexican culinary brilliance in Southern California. It’s difficult to conjure a more perfect food than the birria de res burrito at Burritos La Palma: a sleek goblet of spiced, long-stewed
shredded beef melded to a griddle-crisped flour tortilla. It has a perfected-over-time quality that you can trace back to Jerez, Zacatecas, where the Bañuelos Lugo family opened a flour tortilleria in 1980 that has evolved into what Burritos La Palma