So many celebrity photos cover the inside of the original El Cholo off Western Avenue that they probably hold up the restaurant as much as the walls themselves. There are the sports icons — Magic ...

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 ...

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 ...

We’ll get to the great nachos debate in just a moment: whether the Mexican delicacy was first introduced to Angelenos in 1959 by a waitress at El Cholo, or whether — as the great culinary ...

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