Food in Highland Park

A family-run place on York that has been serving Highland Park for more than twenty years. The huarache is the reason to go, a long oval of fried masa with beans inside, crema and cheese on top and a choice of meat. Jonathan Gold named it in the Los Angeles Times list of essential restaurants in 2008 and it stayed on.

Daily, roughly 8am to 8pm. Listings disagree on the closing time and on whether it shuts on Wednesdays, so call first

Named for a station on the Mexico City metro and cooking the food of that city, including pambazos, flautas and chilaquiles from nine in the morning. Carnitas run on weekends only, in eight separate cuts including snout, ear, skin and stomach.

Mon to Thu 9am to 9pm. Fri and Sat 9am to 10pm. Sun 9am to 9pm