{"id":166015,"date":"2026-02-06T01:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166015\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T01:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T01:38:08","slug":"el-moro-mexico-citys-most-famous-churro-shop-has-arrived-in-echo-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/166015\/","title":{"rendered":"El Moro\u2014Mexico City\u2019s most famous churro shop\u2014has arrived in Echo Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

Attention, all dessert lovers in Los Angeles:\u00a0Consider this your sign to\u00a0make your way to Echo Park<\/a> for some deep-fried, cinnamon-sugary goodness. Mexico City\u2019s most popular churrer\u00eda, El Moro, has finally made its L.A. debut, serving not only churros but consuelo ice cream sandwiches, hot chocolate, milkshakes, coffee\u00a0and tortas.<\/p>\n

First announced<\/a> in late 2024, Echo Park\u2019s El Moro is the first Los Angeles location of the Mexico City churrer\u00eda\u2014and only the second U.S. location (the first is admittedly not too far, in Costa Mesa\u2019s Mercado Gonz\u00e1lez). It was originally slated to open in May 2025 but finally opened its doors last week, on January 29. The family business has been serving churros in Mexico City since 1935, after patriarch Francisco Iriarte emigrated from Spain and started selling his version of the traditional delicacy from a cart. Today, there are 18 locations in Mexico and, now, two in SoCal.<\/p>\n

Located across the street from Monty\u2019s Good Burger<\/a>\u00a0and just down the block from Donna\u2019s and Lowboy<\/a>, the blue-and-white Echo Park shop (El Moro\u2019s classic branding just happens to coincide with the colors of nearby Dodger Stadium<\/a>) sits on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Laveta Terrace, in the former home of old-school burger joint Patra.<\/p>\n

On opening day, there were lines down the street (the offer of free churros for the first 50 guests was surely a draw), so I expected it to be beset with daunting lines for the foreseeable future. But when I stopped by on a late Tuesday morning, it was a very manageable level of busy: There were only four or five people ahead of me in line, and a handful of couples and families enjoying treats on the outside patio. The interior feels crisp, clean and welcoming, with indoor tables, two cashiers, a huge window where you can see the magic happen, and a pickup counter where the churros are bagged and handed to you after being cut and coated in cinnamon sugar.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Gillian Glover for Time Out <\/p>\n

As an obsessive dessert eater, I\u2019ve been eagerly awaiting El Moro\u2019s opening for months. I fancy myself a bit of a churro connoisseur, and it can be harder than you\u2019d expect\u00a0to track down a truly satisfying fritter: not undercooked or overcooked, crisp on the outside\u00a0and soft, but not wet on the inside, and\u00a0covered with enough cinnamon-sugar that you never get a\u00a0bare bite. They\u2019re hard to come by in the city (and\u00a0some I\u2019ve sampled on\u00a0vacation in\u00a0Germany, France and even San Diego were truly awful), and after years of searching I\u2019d come to accept that the only time I\u2019d get a perfect churro would be when I made the drive and financial commitment to visit\u00a0Disneyland<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enter\u00a0El Moro: On the menu, besides churros\u2014you can buy just one, four, a whole dozen or a bag of bite-size \u201cmoritos\u201d\u2014there are a variety of dipping sauces: cajeta, guava, condensed milk or chocolate and hazelnut, plus a rotating seasonal flavor. To drink, you can choose one of six sipping chocolates\u2014served hot or iced\u2014crafted using cacao sourced from the state of Tabasco and also designed for dipping. There\u2019s also coffee, lattes, agua frescas and milkshakes, which I\u00a0saw a lot of people ordering.<\/p>\n

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\nPhotograph: Gillian Glover for Time Out <\/p>\n

For my first visit, I stuck to basics; I like a simple churro that\u2019s perfect on its own and doesn\u2019t\u00a0to be dipped or filled. I ordered one (but the friendly server gave me two), and paid\u00a0an extremely reasonable $3. I took a bite and, to be honest, \u201corgasmic\u201d was the first word that came to mind. It was, by far, the best churro I\u2019ve ever eaten outside of Disneyland (not to mention\u00a0half the price, minus the $104-plus ticket price).<\/p>\n

Given its central location\u00a0at the end of the main Sunset Boulevard strip of Echo Park and its all-day hours (it\u2019ll stay open late seven days a week and past midnight on Fridays and Saturdays),\u00a0the new El Moro is an amazing option for a post-show-at-the-Echo<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0post-taco-truck dessert. I will be back\u2014many, many times.<\/p>\n

El Moro is located at 1524 Sunset Boulevard. Its hours are 8am to 11pm Sundays through Thursdays, and 8am to 1am on Fridays and Saturdays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attention, all dessert lovers in Los Angeles:\u00a0Consider this your sign to\u00a0make your way to Echo Park for some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[14878,48,52,51,47,50,49,21101,412],"class_list":{"0":"post-166015","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-categories-restaurants","9":"tag-la","10":"tag-la-headlines","11":"tag-la-news","12":"tag-los-angeles","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-news-eating","16":"tag-restaurants"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}