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    Good Food

    The Border Grill Downtown

    Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Weekly .  This week, he reviews The Border Grill, which just opened a new branch in the old Ciudad space in Downtown LA.  Jonathan likes their cochinita pibil, the chile relleno, the carnitas and the goat milk cajeta flan.

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    By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    Jonathan Gold is the Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer for the LA Weekly. This week, he reviews The Border Grill, which just opened a new branch in the old Ciudad space in Downtown LA. Jonathan likes their cochinita pibil, the chile relleno, the carnitas and the goat milk cajeta flan.

    The Border Grill

    445 South Figueroa Street

    Downtown LA

    (213) 486-5171

    All of Jonathan Gold's restaurant recommendations are on the Good Food Restaurant Map.

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    5. 29:20Anonymity of a Restaurant Critic
    6. 35:19Questions for Harold McGee
    7. 46:40JAX Donuts
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    The full episode

    4 of 8
    Clam Chowder; Anonymity and the Restaurant Critic; Harold McGee
    1. 0:00Market Report
    2. 6:37Update on the Immokalee Workers
    3. 15:41Russ Parsons' Clam Chowder
    4. 21:46The Border Grill DowntownYou’re reading this
    5. 29:20Anonymity of a Restaurant Critic
    6. 35:19Questions for Harold McGee
    7. 46:40JAX Donuts
    8. 52:51Disposing of FOG's
    Back to Good Food