L.A. Taco Podcast

This week L.A. Taco went to the Los Angeles Zine Fest, one of the biggest festivals celebrating indy zine culture.

This week on the podcast, we take you to LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown Los Angeles for Taco Madness, the 10th annual taco lifestyle food festival.

From a field of 32, we are now down to our top four taquerias of 2019. This week on the podcast, we try tacos from all four finalists and talk to the people behind the hottest tacos in L.A. right now.

This week, we talk to the young, exciting chefs making a name for themselves at L.A.'s preeminent 'food open mic' night Chinatown AfterDark.

Crenshaw rapper Nipsey Hussle spent his entire adult life building a movement to "buy back" his hood. But the native of the Rolling 60s was gunned down senselessly on Sunday, in a case that has shaken Los Angeles. In this special episode of the LA Taco Podcast, we hear from members of his community, and also from future 'Nipsey Hussles' who represent all over Los Angeles: they are artist entrepreneurs, like young Kee Riches ... Plus, a recap of the Latin Food Fest, with Cesar Hernandez.

In this episode, Daniel sits down with Tien Nguyen and Katherine Spiers to chat about the second edition of the Rogue 99. The editors discuss the inspirations and themes to the dining list, and discuss it all: The Serving Spoon, the San Pedro Fish Market, and the significance of places like Sqirl and Musso & Franks. Plus, the News, and some L.A. Taco housekeeping business!

This week we take a journey to the heart of Mexico to try pulque and break down how it's made. We also take you on a special walk-through with photographer Rafael Cardenas of his exhibit “Landscapes and Land Dwellers,” at LA Plaza in downtown L.A.

We take a delicious journey all over Los Angeles eating burritos at Sr. Cliff's in Compton, the Corner Cottage in Burbank, Tirsa's in Chinatown, and Huge Tree Pastry in the San Gabriel Valley.

This week on the podcast, we talk to women waiting in line to get a free signed poster of "Roma" star Yalitza Aparicio by artist Ernesto Yerena about the issues of racism and classism that the film has brought forth. We also dove deep into the making of the L.A. Taco Yearbook with the designer, Valerie J. Bower.

This week, we went to Koreatown to try the mole fries at Macheen's latest pop-up. We also went to talk to homeless Angelenos facing rain and city sweeps. And we sat down with Jared Cowan to discuss the many L.A. filming locations of the iconic bank-heist thriller 'Heat.'

Lots has been going on in the L.A. restaurant scene, including a new beef birria contender in West Adams and a celebration in Boyle Heights for Los Originales Tacos Arabes, who just got its first food truck.

Imagine not having a restaurant for your national cuisine in Los Angeles? We didn't think it was possible, but it turns out that Dominican Americans in L.A. do not currently have a restaurant that represents their foods. But that hasn't stopped this smallish Latin subgroup from building a community here using Instagram. Plus, yes, the Rams lost the Super Bowl. But the Rams sprinkles donuts at Randy's Donuts are still a winner for all! We check in with this iconic L.A. donut shop, and learn about the wonders of its Apple Fritter. Only on the LA Taco Podcast!

We sit down with Tony Chen, aka Sino Soul, at one of his favorite hot pot spots in the San Gabriel Valley: Shancheng Lameizi.

We embed with an LAUSD teacher and L.A. native named Arian White on the picket lines of the UTLA teachers strike and pay a visit to World Wide Tacos.

We embed with the inaugural run of Tacos 1986 at Smorgsaburg LA, where long lines showed up to taste the Tijuana-style sensation starting off the year. Plus, a discussion by Cesar Hernandez on three street vendors taking over Smorg in 2019. First in news, reporter Melanie Gonzalez tells us about the historic start of the L.A. teachers strike.