Carnitas El Momo

My first time at a Carnitas El Momo food truck, parked in the lot of a Mobil gas station in Boyle Heights, I ask for each of the four tacos listed on the sidewalk placard menu: maciza (chopped pork shoulder), cuerito (plush, translucent slivers of

didn’t become a citywide phenomenon until his children, including his daughter, Adriana Acosta, and son, Juan “Billy” Acosta, mobilized the family business with a food truck, and occasionally street stands, beginning in 2013. The Carnitas El Momo truck

include fried avocado, cauliflower “chorizo” and chicken; order them in singles or in family packs meant to feed four to five people. Pickup or delivery. 1576 Colorado Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 478-2791, cacaodeli.com Carnitas El Momo If ever there were a

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In June, L.A. Taco editor Javier Cabral made one of the most nerve-racking editorial decisions of his career: He greenlit a story about the controversy surrounding Carnitas El Momo, a beloved L.A. taqueria whose use of the hashtag #AllLivesMatter on

to write. It sounds like it was pretty instinctive on your part to pursue the Carnitas El Momo story, even though it meant writing a negative story about a restaurant so many people love. If you call yourself a taco editor and you're not willing to

of modesty or fanciness the place exists? As a case study, I’m thinking of two restaurants I’ve reviewed since recently arriving at The Times: Carnitas El Momo, a predominantly food-truck operation that makes the finest carnitas in Los Angeles, and

rating system. Zero stars equaled a poor rating, and a full five signaled a truly extraordinary experience. (Nelson Wu / For The Times) If we worked within those parameters at The Times, I’d likely have given Carnitas El Momo five stars. Beyond a friendly

El Momo in Boyle Heights serves pork in its most perfect form » I suspect some of the bites, topped with things like sourdough breadcrumbs or yellow corn pudding sauce, will infuriate a certain kind of customer, sushi purists in particular. Everyone

, are dressed in matching vests and bow ties. They wield flashy kitchen tools: blow torches, sharkskin wasabi graters, oversize sashimi knives. Dinner at Sushi Bar blurs the line between a modern omakase dinner and a cabaret performance. Review: Carnitas

the fried chicken with cornmeal pancakes at brunch. 5359 West Adams Blvd., Los Angeles, (323) 571-4999, altaadams.com Clockwise from bottom: buche, maciza, cuerito and carnitas mixtas tacos at Carnitas El Momo. (Calvin B. Alagot / Los Angeles Times

Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Carnitas El Momo (65) Anyone who lives in Los Angeles and partakes of pig should know the splendor of El Momo’s carnitas mixta taco at least once. The Acosta family sometimes brand their creation — a combination of maciza

Last weekend, I drove down to South Los Angeles to see what Carnitas El Momo was all about. I had never tasted the informal stand’s famous namesake dish, which reputable taco correspondents had claimed might be better even than the ones at Metro

Balderas and Los Guichos, and there is nothing better than a crackly, gooey plate of the slow-cooked pig confit on a sleepy Sunday afternoon. Carnitas El Momo was nowhere to be seen around its spot at 61st Street and Avalon Boulevard; not on the main