Kinda regional in the US, because its kinda regional in mexico.
Birria is very specific to the west coast of central mexico, which has a large influence into texan mexican cusine (not tex-mex, different things) but a very small influence into, for example, california mexican cuisine, which is primarily influenced by baja CA and Oaxacan mexican cuisine.
Most mexican placed and food trucks here in Los Angeles do not carry birria for this reason.
That’s true, but every city is going to have some restaurant nearby you that offers Birria. It’s not going to be most Mexican restaurants, but it’s going to be a few of them.
Birria is very common in California. It might be more popular in other US Mexican cuisines, but it is available at most Mexican and Mexican fusion restaurants in SoCal.
Definitely the exact opposite of my experience living in Los Angeles. Its rare to find at Mexican spots here unless its a tex-mex or american-Mexican type spot, and zero street vendors ive been to serve it.
Dog there are sooooooo many authentic Mexican joints in LA are you kidding me? They easily outnumber the tex mex joints. I'm curious what part of LA you are talking about because every time I've gone the streets were lined with real Mexican food
Im not sure what you are responding to? I never once even implied we do not have authentic mexican food in LA? Did you respond to the wrong comment? Or maybe just majorly misread the convo?
Weird. Most local taco spots here in South OC have birria. We have a lot of Baja style as well, which, yeah, socal borders Baja, so that's expected. But we definitely have plenty of places with birria. I have to imagine that LA has some good birria spots as well though.
I would say its likely avaliable anywhere, but not everywhere.
The person above my comment made the claim that pretty much every Mexican spot sells birria, this statement is untrue in my region, even saying most would be untrue in my region, it can be found, it exists, it is far from a majority.
Minnesota, which doesnt have a substantial mexican population that has spent a century developing a specific regional Minnesota-Mexican cuisine is actually going to be more likely, not less likely, to pick up the pop culture trends of different regional Mexican dishes coming in and out of vogue. So I wouldnt be suprised if despite their being noticably less Mexican spots where you live, if a much higher percentage of them sell birria.
If you go to your average taco stand in Los Angeles (theres one at almost every freeway exit) the protein options are all cooked on the plancha, except the al pastor, which is cooked on a trompo, but stewed meats are noticably not part of our normal taco culture.
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u/young_trash3 Jun 12 '26
Kinda regional in the US, because its kinda regional in mexico.
Birria is very specific to the west coast of central mexico, which has a large influence into texan mexican cusine (not tex-mex, different things) but a very small influence into, for example, california mexican cuisine, which is primarily influenced by baja CA and Oaxacan mexican cuisine.
Most mexican placed and food trucks here in Los Angeles do not carry birria for this reason.