A taste of Oaxaca
Guelaguetza
3014 W Olympic Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90006 (213)427-0608 A restaurant with one of the largest mezcal collections in the US. Live music can be heard here on a regular basis and a store selling Oaxacan goods is also located on the premises. |
Expresion Oaxaqueña
3301 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90019 (323)766-0575 Traditional Oaxacan fare, including sautéed grasshoppers, chocolate de leche, cafe de olla, moles, and jugos frescos. |
Sabores Oaxaqueños
3337 1/2 W 8th St Los Angeles, CA 90005 (213) 427-3508 Live music is offered here along with delicious empanadas and mole. |
El Nuevo Rinconsito Oaxaqueño
2452 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90005 Offers various kinds of mole over pork or chicken, along with traditional Oaxacan beverages, such as aguas frescas and hot beverages as well. |
Gish Bac
4163 W Washington Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90018 (323) 737-5050 A home-style restaurant offering traditional items, such as empanadas stuffed with chicken and yellow molé. |
Las 7 Regiones
2648 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90006 (213) 385-7458 This small and cozy restaurant offers delicious traditional home-style Oaxacan fare, including chicken molé tamales wrapped in banana leaves and memelas. |
Expresion Oaxaqueña Market
3259 W 8th St Los Angeles, CA 90005 (213) 385-5393 This great little market offers fresh produce, tortillas, and meats to prepare your own Oaxacan feast at home. |
La Mayordomia
5892 S Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90003 (323) 232-1541 This wonderful store located a little further south in Los Angeles, offers a variety of Oaxacan ingredients. It serves as a carniceria, tortilleria, panaderia, and restaurant for all interested in tasting and cooking an authentic Oaxacan meal. |
Oaxaca Town Cafe
3080 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90006 (323) 766-2922 This wonderful neighborhood coffee shop not only offers Oaxacan beverages, such as café de olla, chocolate, champurrados, jugos naturales, and aguas frescas, but it also offers ice cream with such flavors as tuna and leche quemada. It is also attached to an Expresion Oaxaqueña market, selling produce, pan de yema, and various other products. |
Mateo's Ice Cream & Fruit Bars
4234 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90019 (323) 932-5500 Mateo's offers ice cream and fruit bars that come in numerous flavors such as, mezcal, nopal, leche quemada, and horchata. Mateo's offers one of the best and most extensive collection of fruit bars in the area. |
El Valle Oaxaqueño Panaderia
1601 S Vermont Ave Los Angeles, CA 90006 (323) 734-0042 This bakery offers an extensive variety of pan de llema. Tejate, a maize and cacao drink originating from pre-Colonial times, is also served at this location |
Panaderia Santo Domingo
3180 W Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90019 (323) 735-0403 A smaller and cozier panaderia, this place offers less variety, but the home-style quality of the bread and pastries more than makes up for it |