City Consensus · Los Angeles
Mexican in Los Angeles
Community consensus
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Top Tier Editorial has a take on Mexican in Los Angeles below. The community ranking opens up once a few locals have weighed in.
Top 5 Mexican in Los Angeles
Editorial canon from LA's most-trusted food publications.
- #1
Holbox
Historic South Central
“Gilberto Cetina's Mercado la Paloma marisquería became the first Mexican seafood restaurant in the U.S. to earn a Michelin star.”
- #2
Damian
Arts District
“Enrique Olvera's LA outpost set a new ceiling for upscale Mexican cooking in the city, with seafood-forward small plates and heirloom masa.”
- #3
Guelaguetza Restaurant
Koreatown
“The Lopez family's James Beard-winning Oaxacan mothership remains LA's definitive mole and the reason Koreatown smells like clayudas.”
- #4
La Casita Mexicana
Bell
“Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu's Bell dining room is the city's master class in regional interior-Mexican cooking.”