don’t want to suffer through IG stories, but hope he mentions the biggest offenders - mushy, crumbly tortillas and cooking the asada on under-ignited mesquite leaving a super sooty taste.
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What are your preferred NELA taco stands?
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I much prefer El Gallo:
Looking forward to trying Carnal
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Don’t think he mentioned those actually
Tacos Lupita VR for fritanga stuff. Los Gardunos on the weekends for barbacoa.
Andy’s orchards available at la home farm. Steep upcharge, but a lot more convenient than getting to sm Wednesday morning.
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Vegan Jewish deli at Atwater Farmers Market (Sunday mornings). Also the Delmy’s there does a blue corn pupusa.
Fun fact Check Your Head, Ill Communication, and Hello Nasty was recorded right there on the 2nd floor
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Yup. They used to have parties up there back then.
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any early reports on Ggiata? i walked by–space is cute!
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No reports on Ggiata, sorry. I will get there sooner or later, I am sure.
Other new(ish) stuff that I am interested in:
- Belle’s dine in
- The beer garden (?) that replaced Wolfies across from the snake park on York
- PDA cafe on Eagle Rock
- The Fondry, are there weekdays when there aren’t lines?
- What’s going in the Garibaldi space on Monte Vista?
- What is going into the Otoño space? (Rip, liked them)
- Is WakeNLate Burgerlords on deathwatch?
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There’s a new sichuan spot on York according to eater. ?
Also, taqueria frontera opened on cypress. Soft open.
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Trompo looks good! Bar seating looks like taco alley in Tijuana too. Will check it out soon.
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I went today and was happy. Had already eaten so just grabbed an asada vampiro. Tasty. Lol their AC turns on tomorrow. Was toasty today!
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Thanks for the heads up!!! That is super close to where we are staying! Will have to check it out!
If you are in the area during the week at lunchtime, there is a truck right off the freeway at fig called Antojitos Judith. It always has folks and I was hoping it would be a DF style antojitos truck. I finally had a chance this weekend to check it out!
It turned out to be a Chapín Plate truck run by a group of ladies!! Hearty combo plates of beef and chorizo dishes with Guatemalan flare. That was too much for me, so I saw Shrimp Tacos were on their specials menu so ordered two of those. At $3.50 per, it was not a bad price. That seems to be the going rate for seafood tacos nowadays.
I got them to go and had to rush back to work so no pics. The shrimp were not fried, but a la plancha. The tacos were some quesotaco style so the shrimp with onion, salsa, creama and cabbage were on top of a nice mound of melted and crispy cheese. So they were quite substantial!
Glad I got to try them, although next time I’ll get a Torta. One of the workers ordering got one and it was HUGE!
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What is that?
Chapín means Guatemalan. So Guatemalan style combo plates.
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Have you been to the Guatamalan Night Market before?
Yes. But not to buy food. 
