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4532 S. Centinela Ave. Mar Vista, CA 90066

310-390-9241

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BEST VIRAL SNOOK
Award Winner 2009

Cuisine(s): Mexican

Hours: Sun, Fri-Sat 9am-10pm, Mon-Thu 10am-9pm

Price: $
Payment Types: All Major Credit Cards

Features: Catering, Kid Friendly, Takeout

Serving: Dinner, Lunch
Alcohol: Beer/Wine

Reservations: Accepted, Not Necessary

Parking: Lot Available

Description

The restaurant is pretty shrimp-intensive : fat Sinaloan specimens sautéed with tequila and herbs; simmered in a spicy sauce diablo; cooked simply with lashings of garlic and black pepper; or battered and fried to tempura-like crispness. And there are big goblets of shrimp cocktail, enhanced with chopped cucumbers and room-temperature shrimp broth that you flavor yourself with catsup, lime and hot sauce; also cocktails of shrimp and fresh octopus, which are wonderful.

2009 | BEST VIRAL SNOOK

You know those indie bands that become megahits online, but never fully catch on with mainstream pop culture It happens to restaurant dishes too, and this year's version is the pescado zarandeado (whole grilled snook) at Mariscos Chente. What began with a review from the much-esteemed food blogger and Mexican cuisine expert Bill Esparza (Street Gourmet L.A.), reached frenzied heights on Chowhound, where its followers were known to offer up their experiences in a trancelike state, written,... More »

Food Fight: Saucy Little Shrimp

By Ben Mesirow | Wed, June 1, 2011

The easiest way to gross out those friends of ours who are less inclined to adventurous eating is to serve them something that actually looks like what it is. Ground mystery meat in a Jack-in-the-Bo... More »
Snook Is Back: Mariscos Chente In Lennox Adds Grill, Pescado Zarandeado

By Noah Galuten | Tue, June 22, 2010

Last year, Mariscos Chente in Mar Vista became the darling of the L.A. food scene, serving Nayarit and Sinaloa style seafood with a quality unparalleled in the rest of the city. The piece de resista... More »
Stranded at (or Near) LAX?

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, May 27, 2010

Dear Mr. Gold: I am meeting a relative at LAX on a night when the Encounter restaurant is closed. Is there something nearby that you can recommend? It could be for drinks, some decent food, or preferably both. —Thomas, L.A. Dear Thomas: Someda... More »
Snook Attack: La Chente

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, July 02, 2009

Have you ever encountered pescado Zarandeado? Beacause it is as intimidating as an entrée can get, a vast, smoking creature split open at the backbone and flopped open into a sort of skeleton-punctuated mirror image of itself, wisps of steam risin... More »

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Mariscos Chente

4532 S. Centinela Ave. Mar Vista, CA 90066

310-390-9241

Description

2009 | BEST VIRAL SNOOK

Food Fight: Saucy Little Shrimp

By Ben Mesirow | Wed, June 1, 2011

Snook Is Back: Mariscos Chente In Lennox Adds Grill, Pescado Zarandeado

By Noah Galuten | Tue, June 22, 2010

Stranded at (or Near) LAX?

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, May 27, 2010

Snook Attack: La Chente

By Jonathan Gold | Thu, July 02, 2009