World famous Bandini is back with another Top Ten Tacos list, including a straight to the (almost) top hot-shot debut. How many of these wonderful tacos have you been tried?

1. El Parian (three months at #1)
1528 Pico Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90036
2. Tacos La Fonda
Vineland and Van Owen, SF Valley
3. King Taco
1118 Cypress Ave, Los Angeles 90065
4. El Taurino
1104 Hoover St one block south of Olympic.
5. El Matador
1174 N Western Ave in East Hollywood. Nightly after 7pm.
6. El Pecas #2
La Brea and Olympic nightly after 7pm.
7. Tacos El Korita
East Olympic and Herbert.
8. Fiesta Taco
1110 North Hollywood Way Burbank, 91505
9. El Pique
York and Ave 53
10. El Taco Llama
Magnolia Blvd in North Hollywood, one block east of Cahuenga.

Key: Rising Falling Hot Debut Special

Melrose Ave. ~ Hollywood

El Segundo ~ California

Los Angeles ~ California

2920 Lincoln Blvd. ~ Santa Monica , CA 90405 ~ 310-452-2970 ~ TACO Map

Pancho’s Tacos is apparently a legend for feeding some of the wild and strung out rockers who lived in Venice in the swinging 60’s. While the spirit of Jim Morrison might be in the house, our main concern is whether the tacos are too. I have a feeling Pancho’s is a sort of White Castle in the taco world, either a taste acquired or a taste loved from nostalgia. Each of my three tacos came doused with a very specific tasting red salsa, that wasn’t neccessarily that good; rather commercial and funky tasting.

The quality of the tacos were good, though the tortillas are store-bought, we ain’t mad at ‘cha Pancho’s. The carne asada and pastor were of great and tasty quality, a little greasy and completely scrumptious. But that damn hyper-colored, picante salsa kind of drowned out the true sabor. I was about to leave…unamazed by the Pancho’s experience when my stomach and tongue began a vast right-wing conspiracy (they are total Nazi dicks) to get me onto some carnitas…

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Windshield’s California Auto Glass & Rock Chip Repair

1515 Rosecrans Ave. @ 4200 Halldale Ave. ~ Gardena

Abbot Kinney ~ Venice 

We met the engineering geniuses behind these rides hanging at the Abbot Kinney festival on Sunday. These blued and greyed up boys detail the cruisers just for fun, but could make a mountain of money working for NASA wethinks, maybe putting a sub-woofer on the shuttle.

Los Angeles ~ CA