{"id":58134,"date":"2025-11-18T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58134\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T07:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T07:25:17","slug":"komal-molino-review-corn-is-infused-with-memory-at-the-mexico-city-inspired-mercado-la-paloma-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/58134\/","title":{"rendered":"Komal Molino Review: Corn Is Infused With Memory at the Mexico City-Inspired Mercado La Paloma Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"

Komal<\/a>, a counter in the bustling Mercado La Paloma, comes from husband-and-wife team chef F\u00e1tima Ju\u00e1rez and Conrado Rivera<\/a>, who previously worked together at Michelin-starred Holbox. The menu centers on corn nixtamalized on-site, spotlighted in dishes that draw on Indigenous Mexican cuisine and Ju\u00e1rez\u2019s upbringing in Oaxaca and Mexico City. Through cheese-laced quesadillas de huitlacoche and purple-tinged tortillas, Juarez takes diners on a journey through her own memories \u2014 from a pan de calabaza family recipe to a tribute to her favorite childhood taquero \u2014 while honoring the deep ties corn has to Mexican cuisine and culture.<\/p>\n

A group lunch that allows you to order a handful of dishes from across the entire menu while keeping spending in check (the most expensive dish on the menu is $12).<\/p>\n

The food court setup of Mercado La Paloma makes it easy to order dishes from a few stands and assemble your own meal. Head to the adjacent Oaxacalifornia for cucumber or watermelon aguas frescas, or Holbox<\/a> to add on an uni-topped tostada and battered fish taco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Komal, a counter in the bustling Mercado La Paloma, comes from husband-and-wife team chef F\u00e1tima Ju\u00e1rez and Conrado…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28829,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-58134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-dining-reports","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58134","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=58134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}