The last time I went to Aqui Es Texcoco, the kitchen had run out of lamb. And while this might not have been a problem in most Mexican restaurants, where you’d shrug and move on to the roast pork or ...

Want to take your taco game to a higher level? Swap steak or shrimp for lamb barbacoa, simmered low and slow. Here’s our favorite recipe. Want to take your taco game to a higher level? Swap steak or ...

Here, he created a menu for a sprawling lamb-barbacoa-taco party. The lamb is rubbed with adobo sauce, enveloped in banana and avocado leaves, and left to steam slowly for six hours. His taco-party ...

2 square-cut lamb-shoulder chucks (available at Esposito Meat Market; pork butt or chuck short ribs can be substituted) Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Rub the lamb shoulders with a liberal amount of ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Inside El Pica 1 in Texcoco, Mexico, the original barbecue of the Americas is still being cooked low and slow inside of pit ovens. The restaurant's lamb barbacoa recipe ...

Bracero Cocina debuted as one of the hottest restaurant tickets in town this year, thanks to a healthy amount of buzz in culinary circles surrounding chef Javier Plascencia’s Baja Med cuisine.

Bill Esparza is a James Beard award-winning food journalist, author of LA Mexicano, and onscreen food television personality covering food in United States and Latin America. Barba Kush will be open ...

Chef Hugo Sanchez serendipitously happened upon a Craigslist ad for a restaurant in Boyle Heights three years ago when he was thinking of opening his own restaurant. The ad was written by the owner of ...

2 square-cut lamb-shoulder chucks (available at Esposito Meat Market; pork butt or chuck short ribs can be substituted) Preheat the oven to 300 degrees. Rub the lamb shoulders with a liberal amount of ...

Barbacoa is one of those iconic Mexican foods: juicy, tender meat infused with a rustic, smoky flavour and a jungle-like fragrance that falls of the bones. It uses a cooking technique that began in ...