Sonoratown Verified listing

Chivichangas. Caramelos. Bags of perfectly concocted flour tortillas. The waft of chargrilled carne asada. Sonoratown Long Beach is has quickly become a gem.

“The magnificence of Teodoro Díaz Rodriguez Jr. and Jennifer Feltham’s Sonoratown taqueria rests first on the flour tortillas cranked out by their master tortilla maker, Julia Guerrero… [It] is the flour tortilla against which to judge all others in Los Angeles.”

These are the words of Los Angeles Times food critic Bill Addison, who placed Sonoratown at number 12 on his 101 Best Restaurants list (which also included three other Long Beach establishments). And the importance of Sonoratown in the larger discussion of SoCal’s taco game is paramount: They helped usher in regional Mexican tacos in a way that emphasized specificity. Their menu? Minimal, tight, focused. In fact, it had had only one significant addition—cabeza—which they added when it opened its Mid-City location. Their quality? Unparalleled.

It is, through and through, an Angeleno legend coming to Long Beach.

Opening in the former Under the Sun space across from Ammatolí on 3rd Street in Downtown Long Beach—which closed its doors back in March of 2023—Sonoratown opened its OG DTLA location in 2016 followed by another location in Midtown near LACMA.

And co-owner Jennifer Feltham, who operates the space with her husband, Teo Diaz-Rodriguez Jr., knows that Long Beach had long been on their radar.

Written and photos by Brian Addison.

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