Review: Amá•cita delivers comfort food with a fresh equation: Tex-Cal-Mex

Bill Addison reviews Josef Centeno's Tex-Mex restaurant Amacita in Culver City
Bill Addison • Los Angeles Times • September 26, 2019
Before the geometrically pleasing fruit salad at Amá•cita, before yellowtail ceviche with crisp threads of jicama, and roasted chicken zinged by pico de gallo, and fried tacos extracted from a mass of red cabbage, there is Josef Centeno’s queso to...
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