The 25 Best Restaurants In The San Fernando Valley - Los Angeles - The Infatuation

"You’ll find one of LA’s best Mexican restaurants between a convenience store and a recycling center. We’re not sending you on a scavenger hunt—that’s genuinely where Birrieria Apatzingan is located. This tiny, six-table restaurant in Pacoima serves big steaming bowls of Michoacan-style birria de chivo (a.k.a. some of the finest slow-cooked goat you’ll come across). The chivo is juicy and tender after bubbling in the flavorful broth for hours and tastes even better with their fluffy handmade tortillas on the side. Make the birria a priority, but we can vouch that everything here is great, including the morisqueta, or spicy, fatty pork spare ribs coated in queso cotija and served over rice." - brant cox, sylvio martins