You can't leave L.A. without downing a salty margarita and a heavy plate of local Mexican food, and El Coyote is the place to do both. This gay-popular restaurant (especially full of queers on early weekend evenings) is a quintessential southern

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You can't leave L.A. without downing a salty margarita and a heavy plate of local Mexican food, and El Coyote is the place to do both. This gay-popular restaurant (especially full of queers on early weekend evenings) is a quintessential southern Californian Mexican restaurant, with a faux stucco exterior and crowded, dark, and lively interior filled with chili Christmas lights, shell-framed mirrors, cheesy Spanish art, big booths, and waitresses in colorful, traditional outfits. A favorite for over 75 years, the eatery has eight rooms and a patio, with an average of 1,000 meals served daily. Their rocket-fueled margaritas are regularly voted the city's best by local magazines. The food is amazingly cheap for the portions, and shorts and sandals are perfectly acceptable in the casual family atmosphere.

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