5 restaurants where you can find Sonoran cooking in Los Angeles

These five restaurants are serving carne asada, tortillas de harina, coyotas and other typical Sonoran-style Mexican cooking in Los Angeles.
Patricia Escárcega • Los Angeles Times • June 26, 2019
The region of Sonora has meaningful historical ties to Los Angeles. One of the city’s first established Mexican neighborhoods was the “lost barrio” of Sonoratown, established in the 1850s just north of what is now Chinatown. The neighborhood,...
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