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Orange County’s 61 best Latino restaurantes By GUSTAVO ARELLANO Thursday, January 26, 2006 - 3:00 pm Los Cojita. Photo by John Gilhooley Admit it, gabacho Orange County: you love your Latinos. You love our 50-cent tacos, our dollar pupusas, our all-you-can-eat Brazilian meat parades. The salsa. The horchata. The crickets dipped in a spicy chocolate salsa. Cheap produce. Sweet potatoes with lemon and crawfish. Sangria! Orange County hosts cuisines from all over the Spanish-speaking world, from the fried monstrosities of Puerto Rico to pre-Columbian Guatemalan snacks to the Nuevo Latino innovations of Habana and Taco Rosa. And we all love it. Everyone has his favorite Latino restaurant. Hell, even Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist loves Latino food—and if the man can take a break from trashing Mexico to enjoy the taquitos at El Torito, so can you. But to make it easier, we’ve listed the top 11 Latino restaurants and broken down the rest into taco-sized categories. Our favorite place for Argentine shortbread cookies. Best rotisserie chicken. Even Bolivian grub. As we say in Mexico, “Enjoy, cabrones.”11 Best Latino Restaurants, PeriodRegina's. Photo by John Gilhooley1. I’ve patronized Regina’s for business dinners and during the 2002 World Cup with a hundred or - more available