CLOSED: Pal Cabron (& Natura Oaxacan Juice Bar)

By Elina Shatkin Tue., Jul. 12 2011 at 6:17 PM

One of the paintings on the wall inside Pal Cabron.

If you've driven past Pal Cabron in Koreatown this week and wondered why the doors are closed and the gate is locked, it's official: the Oaxacan cemita and clayuda shop has closed, along with its next-door neighbor Natura, a Oaxacan ice cream shop and juice bar.

Bricia Lopez writes, "My brother [Fernando Lopez, Jr.] and I have made a decision on shifting our entire focus on Guelaguetza, our family's business that I see as a place with endless possibilities."

Bricia and Fernando, scions of the Lopez family that owns Guelaguetza, shuttered Pal Cabron's original Huntington Park location and reopened it in the Koreatown space in October 2010, in the location where their father opened the first Guelaguetza restaurant.

Their cemitas were much loved, especially by our own Jonathan Gold.

You'll still be able to find Pal Cabron's tacos arabes and antojitos throughout the summer at Las Perlas.

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Cemitas y Clayudas Pal Cabron

3337 W. 8th St., Los Angeles, CA

Category: Restaurant

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Dude, i live like a block away. I never knew there was something like that i ktown. I'm there. You also have to go to my buddy's bar

jgold

Oh well: back to the cemitas de milanesa at Elvirita's, con double quesillo, por favor. You'll have to settle for Boing instead of bionicos, but there's something special about cemitas across from the cemetery.

Bricia

I will join you Jay-G :)

Zee Fitz

"... there's something special about cemitas across from the cemetery."

There's also something special about having a president who doesn't take nearly a trillion dollars out of the economy (the $787 billion "stimulus") and waste it on make-work projects that do little or nothing to mitigate the recession. For example, Obama's big argument two years ago was that, without the stimulus, the unemployment rate could rise as high as 8%. Newspaper readers know that, with the stimulus, the rate went above 10% and is currently at 9%. Most of the unemployed aren't buying their meals at restaurants -- hence, all these good places going out of business (and creating more unemployment), even when the restaurants are run by experienced and savvy restauranteurs like the Lopez family.

Regardless of what the ultra-conservative left-wing media tells you to think, we need a change in approach.