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Macheen
Mexican
Housemade corn tortillas are the baseline here, warm and soft, and everything else is a riff on the form that lands somewhere between street food and genuine curiosity. Macheen is a taqueria operating as a pop-up, rotating through Boyle Heights and Smorgasburg, with a menu that might pile daikon pickles and grilled rib-eye onto one taco and sweet smoky beets al pastor onto another. The New York Times put it on their 25 best L.A. restaurants list, which tracks.
The awards strongest first
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Los Angeles Right Now
- Los Angeles Times #93 · The 101 best restaurants in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles Times Brisket taco · The 101 Best Tacos in Los Angeles
One number, weighted & current 75
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Beets al pastor
“piled with daikon pickles and thinly sliced, grilled rib-eye, dripping with lime juice or sweet, smoky beets al pastor”
The New York Times
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