Downtown Chula Vista Pub Crawl - Stops 4 & 5: 3 Punk Ales + Third Ave Alehouse

This was a place that Bert had visited recently...

and I was curious about 3 Punk Ales, one of the newer breweries here...

South Bay Food Crawl 2018 - South San Diego: TJ Tortas & Tacos + Oasis Ice Cream Parlor

We were winding down and planned to cut through this lot to get to Baja Oyster Bar across the street..

when I noticed this new signage...

South Bay Food Crawl 2018 - West side of Chula Vista: Aqui es Texcoco, Otay Farms Market & Tamales Ancira

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of hanging out with friends...

Mary (+ her bf Jake) of This Tasty Life and Lynn from Oh So Yummy...

Los Panchos Taco Shop, Eastlake

This post is a few months afterwards, having been here in late May...

when TC had a night function at her school...

Mariscos el Pulpo, Barrio Logan

It was finally time for lunch...

after having gone to three separate coffee spots, ha ha, my seriously wired self needed some foodz....

Lunch @ Tacos don Roge + dessert from Rainbow Ice Cream

What we really loved about Carpinteria was how close everything was to each other.

You can pretty much walk everywhere here...

Seafood Friday 2018 - Weeks 6 & 7: Fred Meyer deli sushi + mariscos from Nine Seas food truck

We were in Portland last week...

and had eaten meat for breakfast, but this was rectified for dinner...

Seafood Friday 2018 - Week 4: Mariscos Hector's + Rubio's

Got these in the mail a few days ago...

Prince would approve of my new sneakers...

Lunch round up - Carnival, Halphen Red, Los Pollos, Pho Convoy, Cali Baguette, the food court in Su Mercado, Sandwich Bags Deli, Gunco Ramen and Mandarin

Time to clear out the memory card before the end of the year,

featuring past lunches...

Random food compilation

Sometime between January and now were these visits and meals...

This is the Rubio's on H, near Costco...

Post Awards Night drinks and tapas at Romesco's

Senior Awards night done!

Time to unwind and revel in the last few weeks of the school year...

Return to Tijuana JR

The coworkers and I went here after a district meeting...

It was close by and everyone was down for some tacos and mariscos...

This table was outside but we moved inside because our group was too large for the patio seating (seats only 4 per table). The downside of sitting inside was the overly loud music.

View from our table.

Specials:

FYI - arrachera is skirt steak (or what my mom called 'flap meat')

Ostiones are oysters.

Bone up on your Spanish dudes.  I got the same thing I had before, an octopus taco and a gobernador.  Since I was with five others, there was some 'variety' for this post, so yay for that.

Their specials are pretty good here especially with their portions. Plus, you get a cup of consomme (broth) with your meal. I didn't get it since I had two a la carte items.

The orange habanero sauce is so good but will do "something" to you later.

Cucumber (pepino) agua fresca (two of my colleagues got this refreshing drink):

The consomme - it was just broth, no fish pieces or vegetables.

Lime wedges and pickled onions added even more flavor to our mariscos meals.

My coworker got a combo which included two types of ceviche tostadas - shrimp and fish PLUS a fish taco. This was insane!  One tostada was enough for a full meal!


La Ley's flautas combo which was supposed to have two shrimp and fish flautas. For whatever reason, she was served five pieces. I've never had shrimp flautas before so maybe this might be something to try next time I go here (I want to bring Bert).

I'm boring. Same items as before - gobernador and pulpo tacos. Thee were so delicious and filling and messy to eat or maybe it's because I'm a messy eater.

Look at 'dem skrimps. Juicy and thick.

A few other coworkers had the same order (gobernador and fish tacos). La Ley has only been to the taco truck. She liked this sit down location so much she said she would bring her husband and kids here next time. So glad that my coworkers liked this place, especially after Mr. TJ and I recommended it.


Previous visit to Tijuana JR:
April 2017 - my lunch excursion with Mr. TJ

The tacos here are excellent (well made and delicious) and filling. The prices are decent (not dirt cheap but not stupidly ridiculously expensive like those hipster taco joints north of the 8).  We have it good here in Chula Vista!

Tijuana JR, Tacos y Cocteles (the restaurant not the food truck)

Across from Frutas and Little Kids Wear on Broadway (near Halsey St.)...

is the sit down version of the popular Tijuana JR taco truck...

TJOB #3 & 2

There are three locations of TJ Oyster Bar...

Recently I was at #3 and #2...

IB Street Tacos

The other night we were out on one of those rare occasions...

As we passed by the former site Marian High School, which was demolished last year, we saw that signs as well as model homes were already up. We would have dinner in IB before dropping off TC for a youth group event...

La Fachada

After our coffee from Imperial Grounds...

we reparked at a nearby taco place, La Fachada ("the facade").

There were two choices, an actual restaurant or the eatery outside...

Salud Tacos + return to Por Vida

Last weekend I met up with the Prof, whom I hadn't been out with for years.

(mural on the La Bodega Gallery Studios near the Sampson St. bridge, Barrio Logan)

Although we see each other at community events, we hadn't had a chance to sit down one on one and catch up on things...

She let me choose the venue, so Salud Tacos it was...

Drinks 'n tapas @ Romesco's revisited

My friends and I went here after Senior Awards night a few days ago...

We needed to unwind with the impending end of the school year...

Lunch @ Sea 180 Coastal Tavern

Yesterday we had an off campus planning meeting for our department...

Lunch was here, at Pier South in Imperial Beach...

Gerlach's Grille

We were pretty hungry by this time and wanted to have our lunch at this beloved hole in the wall spot in Pasadena.

Since it was one of the earlier Seafood Fridays this year, I made sure to choose a seafood place...

which was located right next to a liquor store...