BajaNomad - Puerto Nuevo hits a low: You Want Drugs With Your Lobster?

Puerto Nuevo hits a low: You Want Drugs With Your Lobster?

Woooosh - 8-10-2011 at 09:40 AM

Years ago the hard part of Puerto Nuevo was finding a safe parking spot. Then it was hard to pick a restaurant to enjoy on your own with all the Lonbter Pimps (cwcd) chasing after your car like dogs after a mail truck. Now the problem merchants are complaining about is tourists openly being approached onthe street and being offered drugs. What's next- selling "panga rides"? Geeesh, again.

http://www.rosaritoenlanoticia.info/2011/08/alertan-sobre-na...

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Dave - 8-10-2011 at 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by Woooosh
Now the problem merchants are complaining about is tourists openly being approached on the street and being offered drugs.

Then maybe they should quit hiring tweakers. It's no big secret. Drug tourists know that Puerto Nuevo is the place for one-stop shopping. One restaurant specializes in cocaine, another high grade pot. The pharmacies compete on the price of Oxycontin. Everything's out in the open. No one cares except now, apparently, the merchants.

Hypocrites.

Woooosh - 8-10-2011 at 11:39 AM

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Originally posted by Woooosh
Now the problem merchants are complaining about is tourists openly being approached on the street and being offered drugs.

I really had no idea street dealers were taking over Puerto Nuevo. I knew about the smuggling action at Popotla next door- but this surprised me.

On the Popotla topic- Ecos Rosarito says a group of tourists were herded into a Popotla restaurant and robbed. I haven't seen anything posted about it yet. I'm sure if it happened to tourists eventually a tourist will write about the experience once they get home.

Tweekers Suck. I am seeing a second wave of it in my neighborhood too.

BajaBlanca - 8-10-2011 at 12:09 PM

what a bloody mess, as the Brits say.

The Gull - 8-10-2011 at 12:54 PM

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Originally posted by Dave
One restaurant specializes in cocaine, another high grade pot.

Which is which?

Dave - 8-10-2011 at 01:02 PM

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Originally posted by Woooosh
I really had no idea street dealers were taking over Puerto Nuevo.

Street dealers aren't taking over anything. They don't have a stash. They get their drugs from the neighborhood restaurants and pharmacies.

No, not all the restaurants are involved. But every restaurant owner is aware of who is or isn't. That's why the complaints blaming the "street barkers" is total BS.

Woooosh - 8-10-2011 at 01:41 PM

Why aren't the Puerto Nuevo merchants and restaurants blaming the American and Canadian tourists for causing the demand for drugs there?

J.P. - 8-10-2011 at 02:17 PM

Always felt like I was being hustled every time I stopped from the entrance of the place to the table, With this added aspect I see no reason to stop. I have noticed it's ben a long time since there was a parking lot full of tour buses.

Udo - 8-10-2011 at 02:20 PM

I've been going to Puerto Nuevo for about 30+ years, and, so far, not one person or restaurant has offered to supply me with anything other than lobsters. Never even seen a drug dealer, although I have seen a clandestine tequila sale.

tjBill - 8-10-2011 at 02:36 PM

I recommend Poptla instead. Better prices. Good lobster.

It was busy last Thursday. Went on a Sunday afternoon and they had no regular parking in the village.

Little bit of a challenge driving down the dirt road into the village with lots of traffic.

wessongroup - 8-10-2011 at 02:47 PM

Just say NO !!! used to get my cigars there....

krafty - 8-10-2011 at 02:54 PM

We have never had a problem either, and we were there last week. Usually go once every couple of months.

agreed....

woody with a view - 8-10-2011 at 07:16 PM

just say NO. get your bugs from the locals who get the full benefit of your tourist $'s.....

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Oddjob - 8-10-2011 at 08:24 PM

Ahh, Puerto Nuevo, what a great place. Frozen lobster and drugs that are probably counterfeit in one location.

Mexitron - 8-11-2011 at 08:16 AM

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Originally posted by woody with a view
just say NO. get your bugs from the locals who get the full benefit of your tourist $'s.....

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Exactly!

tripledigitken - 8-11-2011 at 02:07 PM

I would NEED drugs to eat lobster these days in PN.

Those that do go, what is it that keeps you going back?

Have you ever bought live lobsters and cooked them yourselves?

For about the same money you can have a properly cooked legal size bug at La Cocedora de Langosta in Ensenada.

Ken

Woooosh - 8-11-2011 at 03:35 PM

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Originally posted by tripledigitken
I would NEED drugs to eat lobster these days in PN.

Those that do go, what is it that keeps you going back?

Have you ever bought live lobsters and cooked them yourselves?

For about the same money you can have a properly cooked legal size bug at La Cocedora de Langosta in Ensenada.

Ken

actually for LESS money, you can have the real live Maine lobsters delivered to you. I never got the attraction to this clawless, chewy distant cousin of it- let alone them being out of season all tourist season (read frozen) and deep fried.

jakecard - 8-11-2011 at 03:44 PM

You guys are just a buzz kill, man.

Jake

DENNIS - 8-11-2011 at 04:19 PM

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You guys are just a buzz kill, man.
Jake

Ooooops....was there a buzz going on here?

Vince's Fish Market and Restaurant

Gypsy Jan - 8-11-2011 at 04:22 PM

Three blocks or maybe slightly more north from the Rosarito Beach Hotel and on the same side of the street.

Fresh, LIVE, lobster. Everything on the menu is good.

mtgoat666 - 8-11-2011 at 04:26 PM

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Originally posted by Woooosh
Years ago the hard part of Puerto Nuevo was finding a safe parking spot. Then it was hard to pick a restaurant to enjoy on your own with all the Lonbter Pimps (cwcd) chasing after your car like dogs after a mail truck.

puerto nuevo has always been trashy restaurant row with peddlers selling craptastic tourist trinkets.

the sale of pot will improve the place - the town will be more enjoyable with a buzz on, and buzzed restaurant patrons will buy more food.

sounds like the change is a win-win!

Bajahowodd - 8-11-2011 at 04:27 PM

Aren't just about all the restaurants there owned by the same folks? Various levels of ambience.

Just remember that although we have eaten there many times over the years, our last visit was somewhat late in the evening, and we were just about the only visitors there.

Don't recall the name of the restaurant that's three stories high, but we walked in and all the help was just sitting around. We were their only customers.

Seems to me that the combination of the passport requirement and the bad publicity about the cartels and crime has caused a precipitous drop-off in business there.

I seem to recall a time when I had trouble finding a parking space. When there last October, I could have pee'd in the middle of the street and no one would have seen it.

So, necessity being the mother of invention, why should anyone be shocked that the locals have taken to drug sales?

They're not selling much of that crappy fried lobster these days.

Woooosh - 8-11-2011 at 04:53 PM

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If it was mota sales, no one would be complaining.