The Best Restaurants In The San Gabriel Valley - Los Angeles - The Infatuation

"If you love tender, fat-simmered pork as much as we do, we’re here to say that no one does it better than Carnitas El Momo. The experience of eating a drippy taco on your feet at the original Boyle Heights truck might be a classic LA taco experience, but spare yourself the mess by having a quick lunch at Momo’s brick-and-mortar in Monterey Park. This casual counter-service restaurant has seating so you can handle a giant “aporklaypse” torta with two hands, plus the same simple tacos that come with sweet, jelly-like skin and crispy pork belly piled high onto warm tortillas. Embellish each one with salsa verde and extra limón because these carnitas are obscenely rich." - cathy park, sylvio martins, brant cox, andrew ryce