L.A. Taco's Javier Cabral on scouting for tacos in Mexico and reporting the pandemic

Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times Salutations: In case you were wondering where the modernist taco fixation was going to end up going, this Sunday will see the opening of Hija de Sanchez in Copenhagen, a taqueria loosely affiliated with Noma,...

“I feel like we’ve opened up a totally new restaurant,” says Justin Pichetrungsi, summing up the last three years since he took over the business his parents began in 1981 and continues to steer it through an ongoing pandemic. In his hands, Anajak...

Just over 50% of Californians are at least partially vaccinated, and COVID-19 cases across the state have decreased nearly 13% in the last week alone. Los Angeles entered the yellow reopening tier early this month. Dining out has returned in...

Today is Juneteenth, which commemorates the date of June 19, 1865, when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were belatedly informed of their freedom more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation had been issued. On Thursday...

A couple of weeks ago, I received a care package of tacos Tuxpeños from my colleague Ben Mims, who cooked them from the recipe in Esteban Castillo’s terrific new cookbook, "Chicano Eats." The chile-stained pork, steeped in a startlingly fragrant...