When Danny Quintana and Lily Diaz visit their family each year in Boyle Heights, they are usually pleased to discover that little has changed about their hometown. Boyle Heights has fiercely opposed ...

The kitschy and delicious Carnitas Michoacan #3 in Boyle Heights is ending its long 33 year run at the end of the month. The cause? Like many things in Boyle Heights these days, it’s an issue of ...

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Perhaps Mexico’s most famous taco, the carnitas taco is steeped in history, passed down from generation to generation. And it has found its way from Quiroga in the state of Michoacan to North Texas.

There’s something about pigs. Their baby pink skin and curly tails have won over our hearts. Some live on a farm, befriending a barn spider who spins words about them in her webs. Some put on ...

Michoacán import Carnitas Don Raúl, a small food truck at 3303 Broadway St., is keeping the carnitas-making traditions alive in San Antonio. The result? Some of the best carnitas we’ve had to date.

On a corner lot in La Mesa, a block from busy I-94 and sharing a tight parking lot with a dry cleaner, stands a brightly colored brick house called Carnitas Uruapan Mexican food. Emphasis on “carnitas ...

In A Federal Case, I’ll be eating my way up Federal Boulevard – south to north – within Denver city limits. I’ll be skipping the national chains and per-scoop Chinese joints, but otherwise I’ll report ...

If the words maciza (solid), cuerito (skin), buche (stomach), oreja (ear), tripa (intestines), lengua (tongue), or surtida (mixed) mean anything to you and your taco, you’re in luck. Con Sabor a ...

The enormous mortar and pestle full of freshly made salsa on the counter might be your first clue that Carnitas Michoacan on Beacon Hill is your new favorite taqueria. Then there’s the carniceria in ...

On a Saturday evening in Buckeye, the accordion from a Los Nuevos Rebeldes song competed with the hum of generators at a small food truck gathering. Taco Hog Carnitas was parked by the Quick Quack Car ...

At Carnitas Los Reyes, parked at 5050 E. Broadway from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday, you can get Reyes’ birria in the form of a quesabirria taco. Gooey cheese and a handful of birria are wrapped in ...