I recently had an interview with the lovely ladies at Lucky Magazine where they asked me what my favorite fish taco in LA was. Ummmmmm.....
I needed to find a favorite fish taco right quick.
So I scurried to the internet to do a little research. I found Ricky from Ricky's Fish Tacos on his twitter account and immediately assumed he was a food truck, because that's a thing now, twitter +truck, right? Anyway, I see that he's on Virgil and Sunset, up the street from Silver Lake which is my "sliding doors" fantasy neighborhood if I were a dog owning hipster. My boyfriend and I circled the block a few times looking for Ricky's Taco Truck; I refreshed his twitter page, still I couldn't see him. I finally made the obvious choice of going to the address listed and following the smell of bubbling fat. Bingo! Not a taco truck at all, but rather a taco stand, hidden in a small parking lot and shrouded by green tarps. I order one fish, one shrimp, and one agua fresca. The fish and shrimp are fried to order in a mysterious batter. The only ingredients divulged to me were flour and oregano, so I guess I'll have to keep eating fish tacos to figure it out. We drizzle the tacos with a little crema, and a couple of the salsas they have on hand (the chipotle one is the best, yum!). And then we bite. Oh my goodness, I found my favorite fish taco. No need to continue the search. Perfectly seasoned, golden and crisp yet mysteriously light, and perfect with a glass of super sweet agua fresca. I think I made this clear in the prose, but if you can, go here. Ricky is there, his straw fedora tilted jauntily back on his head, ready to serve you up a plate of delicious tacos. The shrimp were my favorite, but the fish is excellent as well. Enjoy!
Would you have recognized this from the street?
Stalker shot of Ricky...
The bif enjoying his agua fresca.
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