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Coffee Los Angeles

Interview: Tierra Mia Coffee founder Ulysses Romero

Ulysses Romero founded Tierra Mia Coffee in 2008 after earning an MBA from Stanford University, working as a New York financial consultant and contributing to L.A.’s non-profit sector. He now has five Latin-inflected coffeehouses,...
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Mexican Food Los Angeles

Gumacus Chilorio

Sinaloan cuisine is alive and well in South Gate. Maria Martinez is perhaps the leading pork practitioner in the South L.A. neighborhood. She opened Gumacus over seven years ago. Martinez named the restaurant for...
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Restaurant Los Angeles

Mariscos Yucatan: Regional Mexican Specialties in South Gate [CLOSED]

My time in Los Angeles has inexplicably involved dozens of trips to South Gate, a town in South Los Angeles that houses plenty of regional Mexican restaurants. However, until Dommy Gonzalez wrote about kibbeh...
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