Day 1 in Mexico City 🇲🇽✨ My Día de Muertos itinerary, walking Roma Norte + Juárez Save this for your next CDMX trip 🔖 📍 Tacos La Chula — tacos al carbón, al pastor carved right off the trompo, salsas + limón, and aguas de sabor 📍 Plaza Río de Janeiro — a dusk walk through the park, palms and

Day 1 in Mexico City 🇲🇽✨ My Día de Muertos itinerary, walking Roma Norte + Juárez Save this for your next CDMX trip 🔖 📍 Tacos La Chula — tacos al carbón, al pastor carved right off the trompo, salsas + limón, and aguas de sabor 📍 Plaza Río de Janeiro — a dusk walk through the park, palms and

A new coffee shop just opened in Chinatown ☕ Thank You Coffee's brand-new Chinatown 2.0 location had its grand opening today, and I had to try the five spice latte; house spice blend, sichuan peppercorn, and yes… MSG. And it works. Save this for your next Chinatown coffee run 🤍 #ThankYouCoffe

Kissaten Corazon ☕ A quiet coffee bar hiding in LA's Chinatown — made for slow mornings. Shokupan toast with butter + strawberry jam, the egg sando, and a pour-over worth lingering over. Soft light, chess, piano, and a corner table that feels like yours. By night it turns into a hidden speakeas

South LA taco run 🌮 Inside Mercado La Paloma, @taqueriavistahermosa is the family-run stall doing tacos al pastor straight off the trompo — plus wet burritos, elote, and the green salsa people can't stop talking about. Watch the chef do his thing 👆 > SAVE this for your next @mercadolapaloma visit

For the latest episode of The Stories We Eat, I got to sit down with Odilia Yego, the Executive Director of My Cielo.org — Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo. 💛 CIELO is an organization founded by Indigenous women that serves Indigenous communities across the United States — through interpretati

You know the tlayuda… but do you know the story behind this one? 👀🇲🇽 I met Chef Poncho at Lugya’h inside Maydan Market to hear about his Oaxacan roots, the story behind his food and why this place has a different name than his original Poncho’s Tlayudas. And then I got to EAT. 😉 🔥 Tlayudas
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I’ve been coming to this Venezuelan café in Pasadena since they opened… and now I finally got to sit down with the woman behind it. 🇻🇪❤️ Amara Café has been part of my LA food journey for years, and hearing founder Amara Barroeta talk about bringing Venezuela's flavors and culture to Pasadena ma

I love finding the kind of local restaurants that don't need to be flashy to be good. 🥟 Yum Dumpling is a family-owned Chinese restaurant in Orange with soup dumplings, pan-fried dumplings, pork buns, noodles and a whole lot of comfort food. If you're in Orange County and love dumplings, add this

I did NOT expect to find a Michelin-starred restaurant inside a food hall in South LA 👀 Holbox serves Mexican seafood at Mercado La Paloma and somehow manages to be both incredibly casual AND Michelin-starred. ⭐️ Would you try it? 📍3655 S Grand Ave c9, Los Angeles, CA 90007 #LosAngelesFood

Summer breakfast ideas don't get any easier than this. 🥭 If you're looking for a healthy, refreshing, high-protein breakfast that takes only about five minutes to make, this mango smoothie bowl is it. All you need: 🥭 1 cup mango 🍌 1 frozen banana 🥣 Greek yogurt 🥛 Almond milk Blend until smoo

Wait… WHAT are these?! 🐾👀 Found these Mochi Paw Cakes at Fika in DTLA and they’re crispy on the outside + chewy on the inside. Also: good coffee, cute space, work-friendly AND a solid place to meet friends. 📍DTLA Save this for your next coffee run ☕️ #DTLA #DTLACoffee #LosAngelesFood #L

If dumplings are your love language, you need to save this one 🥟😂 Dumpling Wei in Brentwood has officially made it onto my LA food map. I came hungry and left VERY happy. 📍12009 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles Who are you sending this to? 👀 I nvited by Dumpling Wei. #DumplingWei #dumplings

I hear that #August is often called the "Sunday of summer" because it brings the feeling that summer is almost over and a busy routine is near. Do you agree? #endofsummer #summervibes #adayinmylife #ugccreator

Wait… those aren't professional actors 👀 I got a behind-the-scenes look at Black Angus Steakhouse and learned that the people featured in their commercial actually work for the company. And then I met Chef Fernando Garcia, who's been with Black Angus for 30+ years. 🥩👨‍🍳 Honestly, I love seeing t

I came for the seafood... Stayed because of the owner's story. 🦀 40+ years in restaurants and even catered for the Oscars. 📍Crab Grabber - Pasadena #FoodTok #pasadena a #SeafoodBoil #HiddenGem #LosAngelesFood