Making our parents proud

We didn’t become doctors or engineers, but we have been featured by some pretty rad media, sooo same-same(?). From Food and Wine to The LA Times; read, watch and hear the headlines (we still pinch ourselves)!

  • Los Angeles Magazine - Best Restaurants 2024

    Standout Casual Spots: “Ultra-killer rotisserie chicken and best birria in the city”

  • Observer: Best New Openings of 2023

    “It’s a restaurant that encapsulates the wonders of dining in a city where everything just blends—you taste the exuberance and the creative freedom in every bite.”

  • Eater LA - Biggest Restaurant Openings in 2023

  • The LA Times - Bill Addison

    “Two of L.A.’s most exciting pop-ups unite Mexican and Indian flavors”

  • LAist - Diana Ruzova and Larry Mantle

    “Juan Garcia of Goat Mafia and Saucy Chick owner’s Rhea Patel Michel and husband Marcel Rene Michel — who opened their pop-up after being furloughed from their jobs during the pandemic — did not hesitate when the opportunity arrived to combine Indian-Mexican rotisserie chicken with traditional Mexican goat birria to create something new.”

  • Los Angeles Magazine - Best New Restaurants 2022

  • Food and Wine - Andy Wang [2021]

    Los Angeles' Most Exciting New Restaurants Are Ghost Pop-Ups

    “Born of necessity during the pandemic, these brilliant takeout-only projects are letting chefs get creative. Here's what to order.”

  • Buzzfeed: Worth It, S10, E2

    “it’s got kicks to it. like fresh kicks” - Steven

    “So much flavor - gushing out. I’ve never had a rotisserie chicken like this in my life” - Steven

  • KCRW - Evan Kleinman

    “Mexican and Indian flavors collide at Saucy Chick”

  • Bon Appetit - Mando Rayo

    Goat Mafia: Named Top 10 Tacos in the Country

  • KCET Broken Bread with Roy Choi: Food as Resistance

  • The Best Thing I Ate - Ali Khan

    “Goat Mafia offers you a taco you can’t refuse”