Though LA is known for its expansive Oaxacan restaurants serving a wide variety of food from the region, EK Valley is beloved among locals for its inventive take on a classic Mexican American dish (via eaterla)
Washington Boulevard in Culver City cuts through a sleepy residential community studded with longtime neighborhood gems like Cognoscenti Coffee; Industry, the Eritrean and Ethiopian spot that showcases live jazz music; and old-school pizza and pasta spot Brunello Trattoria. Even among those neighborhood anchors, EK Valley, a decade-old Oaxacan restaurant, stands out as a secret that only Culver City denizens seem to know about.
Though LA is known for its expansive Oaxacan restaurants serving a wide variety of food from the region, like the James Beard-recognized Guelaguetza in Koreatown, EK Valley is beloved among locals for its inventive take on a classic Mexican American dish: the humble burrito.
Mexican American wet burritos typically feature a red or green salsa, or a stewed meat sauce like the gigantic Hollenbeck at Boyle Heights’s famed El Tepeyac. But the thick mole at EK Valley works incredibly well with the shop’s burritos, the sauce melding into every bite and providing a sweet dried chile punch and chocolatey sweetness.
Over the past decade, Culver City, the longtime home of Sony Pictures, has changed rapidly due to the influx of Amazon Prime, Apple TV+, and other big companies trying to get into the streaming boom.followed, looking to benefit from well-paid workers. Through it all, Garcia and his wife Tobias Lopez have served the community with a half-dozen tables placed inside the tangerine orange- and marigold yellow-painted dining room at EK Valley.
EK Valley serves a slew of typical Valles Centrales dishes that could be found at any one of LA’s numerous Oaxacan restaurants, but the photogenic mole burrito was inspired by his time in California. “In California, they have wet burritos, like in Tex-Mex cuisine. I said well, why not do a mole burrito? And people loved it,” says Garcia. One of the reasons the burrito became popular was EK Valley’s clientele, which is almost entirely non-Latino.
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