Where to find the best micheladas in Los Angeles

The once-modest beer cocktail is now everywhere and more extravagant than ever. A guide to L.A.'s best.
Daniel Hernandez, Jenn Harris, Stephanie Breijo • Los Angeles Times • August 11, 2022
The Roja Michelada from Colonia Publica in Whittier. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Mexico City-based author and critic Alonso Ruvalcaba refers to the michelada and the beer cocktail’s evolution into popular culture as “democracy at work.”...
The full article can be read on the Los Angeles Times website.

Related Articles

10 places to drink (wine, beer, cocktails, caffeine) right now

Bill Addison, Jenn Harris • Los Angeles Times • December 8, 2021
In a culinary city as dynamic as Los Angeles, the drinking culture keeps pace with the remarkable restaurant scene. Consider these 10 favorites a doorway into our city’s singular approach to serving wine, cocktails, beer, coffee and tea. Augustine...

Review: At El Coraloense, Jonathan Gold looks past the aguachiles' appearances and finds deliciousness

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • April 27, 2018
A plate of ceviche can be a lovely thing, raw seafood briefly cured with fresh citrus and aromatics, a preparation often vivid with bright, fresh chile, translucent wisps of thinly shaved onion and fish that seems to glow from within. Ceviche is...

Critic’s Notebook: Where to find great cocktails to-go

Brad A. Johnson • Orange County Register • June 11, 2020
Man, I could use a drink. I’ve found myself saying that a lot lately. And if there’s one marginally good thing to come out of the pandemic, it’s that restaurants get to sell cocktails to-go. Bartending is a lot harder than it looks. Plus, my bar...

Food Truck El Cevichazo Brings Its Shrimp-Centric Sinaloan Seafood Dishes to a Garden Grove Brick-and-Mortar

Edwin Goei • OC Weekly • August 14, 2019
  You MUST order the camarones Culichis. Photo by Edwin Goei “What kind of beer would you like for your michelada?” the waitress asked. I told her Modelo, but I only said so because I remembered it was the beer of choice the last time I was in a...

At Frogtown's Salazar, Jonathan Gold finds a Sonora barbecue joint, steakhouse and evolving tortillas

Jonathan Gold • Los Angeles Times • July 15, 2016
The story of Salazar begins with a tortilla. Or at least I think it begins with a tortilla, because it might also begin with an old auto body shop tricked out into a restaurant, a grill that creaked into being when a gas line couldn’t quite be...