Casablanca - Venice, CA

One of the best (and fairly unknown) Mexican restaurants in the LA area has got to be Casablanca on Lincoln Blvd in Venice. They prepare a somewhat different style of Mexican that most Angelinos are used to going with a more light sauce approach. I'm particularly fond of their tortillas (which they make fresh there, right in the main dining room) which are about as soft and fluffy as a tortilla can get short of it being made out of a marshmallow. Rather than chips and tomato salsa, they serve up these wonderful tortillas with a green sauce mixed with pieces of hard cheese. I also like their version of rice, a plain rice cooked in chicken broth and sprinkles with parmesean cheese. On top of all that, they serve large portions for decent prices. Doesn't get much better than that!