Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Michelle Phillips of the Mamas & the Papas stands with owner Ron Salisbury at the entrance to El Cholo Original Restaurant in Los ...

Mona Holmes is an editor at Eater Southern California/Southwest, a regular contributor at KCRW radio, and a 2022 James Beard Award nominee. At 7 p.m. on a Friday at the original El Cholo location on ...

Eighty-seven-year-old Ron Salisbury is the keeper of tortilla culture in Southern California by both pedigree and life experience. He’s the owner of El Cholo, the 97-year-old restaurant chain that’s ...

In 1922, Ron Salisbury’s grandfather, Alejandro Borquez, who had recently moved to the dusty town of Los Angeles with his young bride, Rosa, pushed back from the dinner table one night, and based on ...

In 1923, Alejandro and Rosa Borquez opened Sonora Café, named for their home state of Sonora, Mexico. The site of the two-room restaurant was in Downtown LA, on Broadway and Santa Barbara Avenue, ...

Anyone who works in a restaurant will tell you: It’s not easy. And it’s increasingly uncommon to see restaurant workers not only make a career out of their vocations but remain at one restaurant for ...

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 ...

If you happen to be turning 100 years old in 2023, an iconic Los Angeles restaurant is offering a tasty gift for centenarians next year. El Cholo, which opened its doors back in 1923 and quickly ...

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 ...