[FORAGING FOODIE | Mexikosher ]
flavors for 18 hours. Step #3 gives you 8 different garnishes and 14 different salsas to add to your culinary masterpiece. You can play it safe here, and opt for fresh pico de gallo and some cilantro, or you can up the flavor ante and choose never-before-seen-in-a-kosher-restaurant nopales along with a memorable mango habanero salsa.
The food is fresh and delicious, and the portions at Mexikosher are huge. A burrito can easily feed two, or at least half of it can travel home with you. That way, you'll still have room to sample the wings, bathed in a chipotle apricot glaze. You'll feel the subtle heat sneak up to the back of your throat after the second or third wing, and by then, it's too late to do much about it but sit back and enjoy the ride.
The menu at Mexikosher doesn't vary much between lunch and dinner, except on those evenings when Chef Katsuji Tanabe is grilling his now famous kosher bacon cheeseburger. Obviously, he is sharing a page with our own Recipe Remix columnist, Siani Sumlin, and doing some major substitutions in this dish in order to deliver all of the juicy goodness of a bacon cheesesburger, while staying within the bounds of kosher cooking. Mexikosher regulars wait anxiously for this special to appear on his menu, and it sells out every time.
Kosher cuisine is too often considered bland and unimaginative. Perhaps that's why an intimate cantina like Mexikosher is the ideal canvas for Chef Tanabe's considerable cooking talent. His resume includes stints at Bastide and Mastro's Steakhouse, and he honed his kosher kitchen skills at the kosher steakhouse, Shilo's.
And while Tanabe is considering future locations for the next iteration of Mexikosher, he has partnered with the Jewish Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Los Angeles, serving as a mentor to teach kids healthful eating and cooking alternatives. But you should
Chopped Champion & Top Chef
contestant (Watch him this season!)
Katsuji Tanabe brings imagination and creativity into his kosher kitchen where he turns Mexican food into something really special