South American restaurants in Los Angeles

Baco Mercat

408 S. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90013

The menu at Baco Mercat reads almost like a graduate exam in culinary poststructuralism, mixing flavors from Italy, France and western China, Georgia (U.S.) and Georgia... More »
Border Grill

445 S. Figueroa St., Los Angeles, CA 90071

Is it possible that owners Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger, who worked the marriage of Mexican cuisine and New American grill cooking a full decade before the guys... More »
El Pollo Inka

15400 Hawthorne Blvd., Lawndale, CA 90260

Beyond the roasted chicken that earned the chain its reputation, El Pollo Inka?s menu is filled with the seafood dishes typical of Lima?s industrial port... More »
El Baron

8641 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232

El Baron in Culver City is a pupuseria with a night club problem. See, the steaming rounds of freshly fried masa, pushed to the limit inside with pork skins, cheese, loroco... More »
The Hollywood Studio Bar & Grill

6122 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028

This intimate live-music bar and restaurant is tucked into the Gower Gulch mini-mall, which was once the stellar nexus of early Tinseltown... More »

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Recent Critic Reviews

Amy Scattergood writes for LA Weekly on Pollo A La Brasa Western

It is a maxim of Los Angeles food culture that you'll find some of the best meals in the oddest places, in run-down strip malls or seemingly abandoned building complexes. Pollo a la Brasa looks less like a restaurant than like a folklorist's dream of one: a Peruvian chicken shack wedged into a well-trafficked Koreatown intersection, pungent smoke rising from the rotisserie...
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Amy Scattergood writes for LA Weekly on Baco Mercat

At his downtown restaurant Bäco Mercat, Josef Centeno has a wildly eclectic approach to food that is less fusion than playful, Garanimals mix-and-match. (It's perhaps not entirely accidental that the name of the place sounds like a beast right out of Doctor Dolittle.) Texas-born, Daniel Boulud– and Manresa-trained, with a penchant for Spanish sauces and...
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Weekly Critics writes for LA Weekly on The Conga Room

fri 2/10

Roberta Flack

SEGERSTROM CENTER FOR THE ARTS

The title of this R&B veteran's new studio disc tells you what you need to know: On Let It Be Roberta: Flack Sings the Beatles, that's precisely what she does, albeit in an appealingly schizophrenic style that honors the Fab Four's bone-deep eclecticism...
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Recent User Reviews

PowAJamz wrote a review for Picanha Grill & Bar
08/19/10

Located right off of San Fernando's main drag in downtown Burbank lies this simple, yet classy Brazilian churrascaria. It's a whirlwind experience. Once you've been seated, you get right back up and grab some exquisite, however basic, salad & side dishes from the buffet (like Brazilian rice, black beans & sausage, and assorted saut�ed veggies). Once you are b...
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