Those seeking a squarer meal should order nopales con carne, cooked shreds of prickly pear cactus tossed together with cubes of pork and plated up with the usual rice, beans and tortillas. Cultivated from many areas of Mexico, nopales are a standard of the country’s cuisine, but also an ingredient not often found on California [...]

Coast-to-coast Mexican at La Concha

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
They’re perhaps the rarest moments in Long Beach planning, improbable instants when all of Anaheim Street moves along in time, traffic signals completely synchronized into a gateway of green lights stretching straight through to the LA River. Drift too eagerly through the free-flowing traffic though, and you’ll speed [...]

La Concha’s enchiladas
It can easily be argued that from its tree-lined beginnings in Park Estates to its concrete crossing of the LA River, Anaheim Street is the most diverse path through Long Beach, an essential artery that cuts through just about every spectrum of city life. And so La Concha seems a perfect fit, [...]