Wells Fargo has teamed up with La Cocina and local design­ers to cre­ate web­sites for 5 La Cocina businesses.

Thanks to every­one who voted for their favorite site. We’ll announce with win­ners on Wednesday!

Sep­tem­ber 15th, 2010; 6:30 — 9 PM, La Cocina No, we’ve not become a faith-based orga­ni­za­tion; unless you con­sider the force with which we believe in the power of good food to change lives. And nothing’s more pow­er­ful than mole. It’s alchemy in a pot; dark, deep, rich, spicy and mys­te­ri­ous. And we’re here to help you make it. Chef Veron­ica Salazar, owner of El Huarache Loco, will walk pro­gram par­tic­i­pants through each and every one of this won­der­ful dish’s 19 ingre­di­ents all the way to a plated din­ner over roasted chicken and veg­eta­bles smoth­ered in your own mole. Guests will leave with a jar of their own mole. Cost: $65/person Buy your tick­ets here:

Octo­ber 27th, 2010; 6:30 — 9 PM, La Cocina The Day of the Dead will soon be upon us. Join Chef Luis Vazquez, owner of Chaac Mool as he shares how food lies at the heart of cul­ture. We will focus on mak­ing tra­di­tional Day of the Dead breads like pan de muerto. Guests will leave with a sam­pling of breads and din­ner and drinks are included. Cost; $65/person Buy your tick­ets here

Wednes­day, Novem­ber 17th, 2010; 6:30 — 9 PM Ah, it’s Thanks­giv­ing again. With­out going into the impli­ca­tions of the hol­i­day itself, we’ve decided to sub­vert the tra­di­tion by cel­e­brat­ing it. We’re a coun­try full of immi­grants, and a kitchen full of peo­ple who love to cook. Why not cel­e­brate both of those things with an evening ded­i­cated to chang­ing the tried and true and replac­ing it with the deli­cious and excit­ing? Join sev­eral of the chefs from La Cocina and expe­ri­ence the fla­vors of Thanks­giv­ing as it is cel­e­brated here by peo­ple from around the world. We will be mak­ing Turkey with mole and var­i­ous West African and Asian inter­pre­ta­tions of tra­di­tional Thanks­giv­ing favorites. Cost: $65/person Buy your tick­ets here:

Decem­ber 15th, 2010; 6:30 — 9 PM, La Cocina It’s that time of the year again; kitchens are bub­bling with antic­i­pa­tion and fam­ily, and, if you’re any­thing like our fam­ily, that means that you’re in the kitchen too. There’s no bet­ter way to share a kitchen that to gather your friends and fam­ily and make tamales. Join chefs Dilsa Lugo and Maria del Car­men Flo­res as we put hands to corn and banana leaves, and fill them with the magic masa that becomes a tamal. Leave the class with a bag of tamales for your fam­ily and the strength to recre­ate that moment at home. Din­ner and drinks, of course, included. Cost; $65/person Buy Your Tick­ets Here:

March 24th, 2010; 6:30 PM — 9 PM, La Cocina Do you know masa like we know masa? Sure, there’s the fancy restau­rant in New York and Vegas, but our ver­sion is the cen­tral com­po­nent of the kind of food that we like to make. And we make it well. And why shouldn’t you? Learn­ing to work with masa is like learn­ing every­thing Julia Child had to teach if she had gone to Latin Amer­ica instead of France. Join the chefs from Estrellita’s Snacks, Gordi­tas El Comal, and La Cocina for a class that will intro­duce you to the idea of masa and all of the amaz­ing things that you can do with it. We’ll make deli­cious tor­tillas, gorditas, and papusas, (thick, corn  flat breads that can be stuffed with cheese, meat and veg­eta­bles). Din­ner and drinks of course included. Cost; $65/person Buy Your Tick­ets Here

April 14th, 2010 Scared to make fried chicken at home? Think col­lard greens are the weird­est veg­etable ever? Do you make mac and cheese out of a box? Join chef Dionne Knox from Zella’s Soul­ful Kitchen as she walks us through the clas­sics (but bet­ter) of South­ern Cook­ing. It’s the kind of food that we all love to eat, but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t hard to make it. And, even if it is hard, we’ve got the stuff to make it eas­ier.  Drinks  (mint julep any­one?) and din­ner included included in the price of the ticket. Cost; $65/person Buy Your Tick­ets Here:

Wednes­day, Feb­ru­ary 10th, 2010, 6:30– 9 PM Don’t know what to do for Valentine’s Day?  Maybe you don’t even like Valentine’s Day?  Well, you have to like choco­late, right?  Join La Cocina, Neo­Co­coa and Kika’s Treats for an evening of choco­late, love and all other things amaz­ing. Guests will roll their own truf­fles, pack their own boxes and maybe even learn how to be a bet­ter lover.  We’ve heard rumors that choco­late does that kind of thing.  This is a hands-on choco­late mak­ing class and includes wine, din­ner and a take-home box of YOUR home­made truf­fles for you, your lover or your lover-to-be.   Tick­ets begin at $65.  For more infor­ma­tion and to order your tick­ets now, please click here.

July 28th 2010, 6:30 — 9 PM, La Cocina Salsa. It’s crisp, it’s fresh and it can be made 17 mil­lion dif­fer­ent ways. Come to this class and learn all 17 mil­lion of them! Join Chef Isabel Caudillo, owner of El Buen Comer, and build salsa from scratch, using what­ever you find at your local farm­ers mar­ket. Guests will leave with at least 2 home­made sal­sas, and our Culi­nary Direc­tor will walk all par­tic­i­pants through the basics of grilling to make the per­fect sum­mer meal. We’ll drink san­gria and eat the fruits of our labor, but not before you learn how to throw the best bar­be­cue your friends have ever seen. Cost: $65/person Buy your tick­ets here:

The First Annual Street Food Fes­ti­val is over, and it was a huge suc­cess. Thou­sands of peo­ple made their way to our block and par­took in small bites and sips of some of the city’s best portable food and drink. A big thank you to every­one who came out and sup­ported La Cocina and the street food ven­dors. We hope you con­tinue to sup­port those whose food you enjoyed at the Street Food Fes­ti­val. Didn’t make it to the fes­ti­val? You can still buy the I Cart Street Food t-shirt and Street Food poster (avail­able here.)