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Mexican Food Tijuana

Erizo Cebicheria: Contemporary Showcase for Baja Seafood

Erizo Cebicheria is one of the latest concepts from rising chef and tireless Baja proponent Javier Plascencia, and it’s just one of the places that Street Gourmet LA founder Bill Esparza introduced us to...
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Restaurant Logo Tijuana

Tortas Wash Mobile: Sandwiches that Outlive its Tijuana Car Wash Roots

Concepts don’t get much simpler than Tortas Wash Mobile, a Tijuana sandwich window that dates to 1964 and specializes in one thing: carne asada tortas. The name comes from a nearby car wash that...
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Taco Tijuana

Mariscos El Mazateno: Magnificent Seafood in Tijuana

A winding drive into the hills near Tecnologico – the Tijuana technical college – once again led us to Mariscos de Mazateno, a nine-year-old restaurant that showcases Sinaloa-style seafood from Mazatlan. A 2009 visit...
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Salsa Tijuana

Baja Sonora: Bringing Sonoran Tacos to the West

Our most recent trip to Tijuana featured a well structured itinerary, but we did have one night of free play, and that inevitably involved multiple taco stops. We started at Baja Sonora, a taqueria...
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Mexican Food Tijuana

Mision 19: The Place to Be During Baja Culinary Fest

The reason our bus left Union Station so early on a Friday afternoon was so that we could make it to a pair of marquee Baja Culinary Fest dinners in up-and-coming Tijuana. About 30%...
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Ceviche Tijuana

Erizo Cebicheria Scallop Ceviche with Chicharrones

Baja is blazing hot right now in the food world, and the breakout chef has been Javier Plascencia, who now owns two of the more progressive restaurants in Tijuana, Mision 19 and the recently...
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