Review: Jonathan Gold goes to Bell for Rocio Camacho's take on a boozy Oaxacan taqueria

Rocio Camacho, known for her mole-centric restaurants, has opened a new restaurant in Bell. Tacos! Mezcal!
Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • November 16, 2017
If you have traveled outside your neighborhood for Mexican food in the last decade or so, you have probably run across the cooking of Rocio Camacho, a Oaxacan-born chef who is occasionally described as a Johnny Appleseed of mole. I first came...
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