{"id":2892,"date":"2012-09-28T23:59:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-29T06:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wanderlustforone.com\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2024-07-21T04:57:15","modified_gmt":"2024-07-21T08:57:15","slug":"food-rickys-fish-tacos-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wanderlustforone.com\/staging\/3560\/destinations\/food-rickys-fish-tacos-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooked on Ricky&#8217;s Fish Tacos in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I drove past it three times before I decided I must be in the right place.<\/strong> After all, when Yelp directs you to great Mexican food in Hollywood, there are a few things you expect, the least of which is that the establishment in question is housed in a building. But there I was, standing on the edges of what looked like a private backyard party under a white pop-up tent just off Sunset Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome to <a title=\"Ricky's Fish Tacos on Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rickysfishtacos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ricky&#8217;s Fish Tacos<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"IMAG1288-1-1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderlustforone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wpid-IMAG1288-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was hungry, dammit<\/strong>&#8211;I&#8217;d just <a title=\"A Magic Moment on Mount Hollywood\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wanderlustforone.com\/destinations\/mount-hollywood-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hiked up Mount Hollywood<\/a>, after all&#8211;so backyard party or not, I was going in.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out I <em>was<\/em> in the right spot: against a far wall, two large deep fryers overflowed with golden battered strips of what I assumed to be seafood, as a man and a woman attended the fryers, flipping the strips with tongs to make certain they&#8217;d been evenly browned. The man would turn out to be Ricky himself, as I found out later.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"IMAG1285-1-2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.wanderlustforone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/wpid-IMAG1285-1-2.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The air was filled with the aroma of the hot\u00a0oil, laced with the chatter of roughly a dozen people who lingered waiting for their orders to be filled: police officers, hipsters, tourists, and families.<\/p>\n<p>On the menu: fish, shrimp, and lobster tacos served with a light mango-pineapple <em>agua fresca<\/em>\u00a0for a refreshing finish. 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