Last night as soon as I walked in after a long day the wife & Skankster announced they wanted to eat out down in Hacienda Heights, a basically 100% Mexican barrio/hood a few minutes south from our home. Off we go to Ostioneria Colima which is a down home working man's Mexican Marisco's joint. Ostione means Oyster in spanish so a Ostioneria means Oyster Shop.
Here's something out of Chowhound so you get another glimpse before I go on
So minutes later we were cheek to jowl w/Mexican Families w/6 kids (but the oldest is always under 10) having dinner & Mexican just off duty workers w/their LA version of karaoke gals sharing platters of iced down raw oysters topped with Line & Hot Sauce & buckets of also cold iced down Pacifico Beer. The place just has a real energy, always Mexican league soccer on the large screens & Mariachi Music roaring from the speakers5 Star Rating
The best Marisco's this side of the border. Really!! Shrimp coctels, garlic shrimp, fresh oysters, crab, octopus, fish, shrimp tostadas. And almost all items under $10. What a steal!!! My personal favorite, Shrimp & Octopus Coctel and 1 dozen fresh oysters with Tapatio sauce & Limon, MMmm. Here is the negative: If there is a mexican soccor game on, DO NOT COME! The place will be beyond capacity. Also try to avoid sunday afternoons because everyone coming out of CHURCH is there (mexican tradition)
The young Skankster always gets Fresh shrimp stuffed w/freshly made Cheese & then grilled wrapped in Bacon. The DW & wife & I always have a few dozen raw oysters & lots of Ceviche Tostadas. Ceviche is a marinated raw fish/onion/tomatoe/lime mixture (Mexican Sashimi) & Ice Cold beer. The price tag is the lowest you can find almost anywhere on the planet for So fresh you can eat it Raw Quality Seafood.
Table to table there are vendor wars between the Mainland Chinese gal who speaks no Spanish & the Mexcian street vendors of pirated DVD's. Also a good place to pickup knock-off Lakers/Dodgers/Raiders sportware too.
We've been here probably over 100 time since we moved to LA but I'm always the only 'Caucasians' we see in the place. Once in a while there are Chinese/Koreans as the next town over is heavily Asian & they do like their fresh seafood; willing to go into a scary Mexican joint to get it fresh.
45 minutes at Ostionaria Colima & we have a good beer buzz going & have just feasted on fresh fresh marisco's. For the moment you feel it really doesn't get any better than this.
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