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Life & Thyme: ‘Tis Tamales Season
I walk into Downtown L.A.’s Broken Spanish on a December day to a bustling kitchen prepping for evening service and a warm welcome from chef/owner Ray Garcia. It’s easy to
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The 31 Best Mexican Restaurants in America
As brilliant as BS Taqueria’s design palate is, Broken Spanish — the refined sister restaurant to the abbreviated taco shop — has a sleek look with rustic touches that sets
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Meet The 10 Best Mexican Chefs in The United States Right Now
A native Angeleno, Garcia’s Broken Spanish—and its much-lauded elevations of humble staples like the chicharron—is a fine-dining star of the nascent Alta California cuisine.
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Bon Appetit: 4 Refreshing Drinks That Aren’t Kombucha
Much beloved as a hot-weather thirst quencher in its native Mexico, tepache is made from pineapple peels that have been steeped in water along with brown sugar and spices and
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Chef of the Year: Ray Garcia of Los Angeles
Depending on your perspective, Los Angeles either is drowning in Mexican-food options or has five. We’ve got the taco truck; the corner taqueria; the kitschy throwback where the bachelorette parties pound
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Wallpaper: Broken Spanish, Los Angeles, USA
After a career working as the head chef in a series of LA-based eateries including Cyrus and Fig, Ray Garcia has ventured out on his own with debut restaurant Broken Spanish. Fellow
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The Kuh Review: Broken Spanish
The sinewy meat of the lamb head at Broken Spanish is slathered with a paste of toasted guajillo chiles, then covered with a banana leaf and steamed until tender in
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This Is LA’s Most Authentically Inauthentic Mexican Food
Ray Garcia named Broken Spanish on the offense. “I think whenever you try to put a ‘what I do’ [on your food]—or if your guests or media try to put
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Esquire’s Best New Restaurants in America
In more restaurants than ever, Latin Americans are not just rocking the line but also running the show, with confidence and style. Witness Ray Garcia: I went to his L.A.
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Chef Ray Garcia Leads a Revolution in Modern Mexican Food
Broken Spanish is a heartening step forward for a chef who was obviously meant to be at the forefront of the modern Mexican-food revolution.
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Broken Spanish Sings Ray Garcia’s Gorgeous Love Song to Los Angeles
Chef Ray Garcia’s South Park overhaul of the former Rivera space is now complete, as Broken Spanish comes to life. The colorful tiles and wood-wrapped interior show off the restaurant’s
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Ray Garcia’s Broken Spanish Debuts Downtown
The promise of one restaurant from chef Ray Garcia and Bill Chait’s Sprout group was already big news for downtown LA. But two? It almost seems like an embarrassment of
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COULD CHEF RAY GARCIA’S BROKEN SPANISH BE THE NEXT SPAGO (OF MEXICAN FOOD)?
Ray Garcia is part of a new generation of chefs who are changing the way Mexican food is cooked and consumed in Los Angeles. But even within this trend —
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Mezcal, Patios and More Ray Garcia in Downtown
Heartily, at Broken Spanish, a radical dinner and pavement-drinking destination from B.S. Taqueria’s Ray Garcia, opening tonight in Downtown.
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