At El Cholo restaurant, the emphasis has always been on trying to collect stories, said Ron Salisbury, the owner of the small Mexican chain and grandson of its founders. As it celebrated its 100th ...

When you are a restaurant with a seriously devoted fandom, the sort of diners who can name everything in their favorite combo plate, and probably every other item that appears in every other ...

Mona Holmes is an editor at Eater Southern California/Southwest, a regular contributor at KCRW radio, and a 2022 James Beard Award nominee. At 7 p.m. on a Friday at the original El Cholo location on ...

We’ll get to the great nachos debate in just a moment: whether the Mexican delicacy was first introduced to Angelenos in 1959 by a waitress at El Cholo, or whether — as the great culinary ...

In 1923, Alejandro and Rosa Borquez opened Sonora Café, named for their home state of Sonora, Mexico. The site of the two-room restaurant was in Downtown LA, on Broadway and Santa Barbara Avenue, ...

Sliding into an El Cholo booth next to your bestie with the knowledge that you'll soon be splitting a starter plate of nachos and sharing a Fiesta Platter for your main course? With your friend taking ...

Anyone who works in a restaurant will tell you: It’s not easy. And it’s increasingly uncommon to see restaurant workers not only make a career out of their vocations but remain at one restaurant for ...