This post originally appeared on FoodableTV.com There has never been a shortage of restaurants along Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley, but these family-owned restaurants tucked along the boulevard and...
Owner Jesse Gomez grew up in the restaurant business. Almost 50 years ago his grandparents opened El Arco Iris Mexican restaurant in Highland Park in 1964. Jesse began working in the family restaurant and was responsible for modernizing El Arco Iris and reintroducing the restaurant to the neighborhood. In 2009 he opened his own restaurant Yxta Cocina Mexicana in downtown LA. Now Mercado is his third venture with partner Chef Jose Acevedo.