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Entries from LAist tagged with 'carneasada'

May 14, 2008

It's been nearly 30-days since the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors passed a law that will severely affect taco trucks in unincorporated parts of the county. Trucks can park for 60-minutes, but after that, they face high fines and even jail time if they do not move to another location. Within a moments notice of hearing about the new law, two Occidental alumni with a penchant for taco trucks began a movement complete with......

Continue Reading "Last Night for Legal Unincorporated Tacos"

April 28, 2008

May Day will not just be a day for marching. It will also be a day to celebrate taco trucks. After Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to extend the amount of time a taco truck can stay put in one spot from one half hour to a one hour, but also upped the fine for violating that restriction from $60 to $1000 and/or six months in jail, a pair of teachers began a......

Continue Reading "May 1st is Taco Night"

April 24, 2008

The local online effort to stop a recent law passed to limit taco truck activity with harsh punishment seems to be getting some attention: The petition is working and your thousands of signatures are getting some serious attention. We’re receiving support from all over Los Angeles and all across the world. Letters have come in from Texas, Washington, Massachusetts, even Canada and New Zealand. We’re also receiving numerous press inquiries, including major print, online and......

Continue Reading "Thousands Agree: Carne Asada is, in fact, Not a Crime"

November 27, 2007

People with too much time on their hands: Amy Ephron and other striking writers have whipped up a food blog. Our current food blog obsession: Luxeat, a Parisian model who eats at the finest restaurants in France and takes luscious pictures. Of the food. Over at the LA Times, food editor Leslie Brenner is really sticking it to the new Michelin Guide. Among her criticisms? "The book that purports to be the bible of......

Continue Reading "Foodie Round-Up: Striking Writers Still Eat Better than Most People in LA"

April 24, 2007

Downtown Culver City may be flourishing with new, tasty delights but the CC has a few delicious, bustling restaurants that have been around for ages. The prime example being Paco’s Tacos (4141 Centinela Dr), which just may be the best Mexican food, not just in the city, but in the entire U.S.A. I almost hate to mention it because the ever popular Paco’s is always crowded, particularly on weekends; sometimes I’ve had to wait......

Continue Reading "Nothing Better Than A Taco From Paco"

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