On a recent Saturday a little past noon, Jennifer Hernandez sat at the dining table in the South Gate home where she grew up. She focused intently, holding a handheld makeup mirror as she used liquid ...

Eighty-seven-year-old Ron Salisbury is the keeper of tortilla culture in Southern California by both pedigree and life experience. He’s the owner of El Cholo, the 97-year-old restaurant chain that’s ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The City of Los Angeles has honored the owners of legacy Mexican restaurant El Cholo, renaming the intersection of Western Avenue and 11th Street as Alejandro and Rosa Borquez Square. The name ...

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 ...

Despite the pandemic lockdown, locals have managed to shoot and release some terrific music videos this year, and Belladon is responsible for one of them. Their performance video for “Haisa” was taped ...

El Cholo was the first Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles and the city even named a street after the founders Alejandro and Rose Borquez. El Cholo is now open in Sugar House, the first location outside ...

Ahead of the Los Angeles staple turning 100 in 2023, it will commemorate its 99th anniversary Oct. 24-27 with a 99 cent ...

Boo Boo, left, and Gill Tejada laugh during a recording of an episode of the "American Cholo" podcast from their studio in North Hollywood. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times) In a North ...