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Coni’Seafood: Showcasing Mexican Seafood in Inglewood

The Cossio family saga seemingly has more twists and turns than a Southern Gothic novel, and it’s probably best to leave plot analysis to my friend Bill Esparza of Street Gourmet LA, who turned...
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Korean Restaurant Los Angeles

Wassada: Alive and Kicking in Koreatown [CLOSED]

“Alive” is the stomach-churning story of the Uruguayan rugby team, whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972. To say they went to extremes to survive is an understatement. At certain restaurants in Koreatown,...
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Spot Prawns California

Pier 46 Seafood: Exploring Variations on Ventura Spot Prawns

We were completely set on eating sandwiches made with San Luis Obispo County meat at J&R Natural Meats, which we eventually did, but a blackboard that read “Ventura Spot Prawns” changed our mission. We’d...
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Restaurant Morro Bay

Dorn’s Breakers Café: Charming Seafood Spot By Morro Bay

“I’m not just the president, I’m also a client.” So said Cy Sperling in his famously atrocious 1980s Hair Club For Men Commercial. We’re by no means the President of Tasting Table, or even...
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Restaurant La Paz

Bismark-cito: Feasting on Seafood by the Sea of Cortes

Our first meal in La Paz, a city that Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortés “discovered,” was at Bismark-cito, a seafood-focused restaurant with a mysterious connection to a WWII German battleship that the British Royal Navy...
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Mariscos El Compa Chava: Shakin’ Shellfish in Todos Santos

A partying prawn with maracas and a dancing crab wearing a toque greeted us at Mariscos El Compa Chava, a palapa-covered stand with dirt floor and plastic Pepsi sponsored tables on the outskirts of...
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