PATRIC KUH
Restaurant critic for Los Angeles Magazine
Los Angeles I like to go to Teresita's, a family-run restaurant in East L.A. The owner, Teresa Campos de Hernandez, opened the modest place in 1983. She's still cooking and greeting customers in the front, but her son Antonio runs the restaurant now. Their chilaquiles are great--fried corn tortillas drenched in homemade red or green salsa and strewn with cotija cheese. And on Wednesdays, they have costillas de puerco en chile negro, pork ribs cooked in a black chili sauce and finished with Ibarra chocolate. It's sort of like a braising juice. 3826 E. 1st St., 323/266-6045, chilaquiles $8.
Columnist Bill Lubinger reports: "Agave, a new locally owned tequilarilla and grill featuring Latin-Mexican fusion cuisine, will fill the rest of the former Hoggy's restaurant at Crocker Park in Westlake ... He's shooting for a late August opening, once the space is overhauled into a lively, colorful room with a glass storefront to expose the hip-shaking energy inside. ...
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