Rika's Empanadas in Glendora in the San Gabriel Valley. This place got excellent reviews; we went there twice. Unassuming in a strip mall. Argentine. Empanadas (shown). Many delicious kinds. We ordered quite a few. All delicious. The prune bacon, yes. Personally I liked the eggplant and spinach ricotta. On the weekends, they have fabulous pastries using lots of home made dulce du leche. Should be outlawed. The first night we ordered up a confection that included philo dough, ducle du leche, and peaches. Later in the weekend, we sent there for lunch and each had crepes. So much we had some leftover for the next day.
Monte Alban in Santa Monica. My cousin Jon T took us there. In Santa Monica again in a small shopping strip mall place. Now I love the mole that La Raza makes. But this place had at least three kinds of moles. I ordered the chicken breast with the dark brown mole and rice (shown). This mole was so rich and definitely tasted of chocolate. Delicious!
Not all of our choices in SoCal panned out but these two were the very best.
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