BajaNomad - Great restaurant in Ensenada

Great restaurant in Ensenada

makana.gabriel - 3-21-2016 at 11:25 AM

We are going to be in Ensenada Tuesday night and looking for a new, fabulous restaurant that you would recommend. We have our car so doesn't matter where it is. Saw a recent thread but it was more limited to walking distance from a certain hotel. Had a casita there in the 80s & 90s so know most of the old restaurants.
Also, is the taco cart that Anthony Bourdains recommends 'La Guerrerense' that is located at Lopez Mateos & Alvarado?

gsbotanico - 3-21-2016 at 01:06 PM

You have the correct location for La Guerrerense -- on the corner of López Mateos & Alvarado.

If you are looking for fine dining with wine, I would suggest driving out to Valle de Guadalupe, especially if price is not a consideration and you want to try the new Baja Med cuisine. It's about 15 miles east on Highway 3. It's where there are a lot of newer restaurants. Here's a list of some of them: Laja (not new), Corazón de Tierra, Fuego, Sol y Barro, Finca Altozano, Deckman's. Google the name of the restaurant to find out more.

fdt - 3-21-2016 at 10:12 PM

There are a couple of great "new" restaurants in Ensenada, like Manzanilla beeing the best, voted one of the best 50 restaurants in Latin America. Unfortunately they are closed Monday and Tuesday.
As for that taco cart you mention, it has everything except tacos. La Guerrerense is cart but they sell ceviche, all kinds, clam, fish, shrimp, sea urchin, bacalao (cod), snail, just to name a few. They have sea food cocteles also but Anthony never had a taco there, since they don't sell them.
Again, unfortunately they are closed on Tuesdays.

Now, a great sea food restaurant that is not new but is great, is Mariscos Bahia Ensenada on Lopez Mateos and Riverol. I imagine you are looking for sea food.

If what you want is a great fish taco and not necessarily to eat were Anthony ate, it has to be Tacos Fenix, on Juarez and Espinoza
I hope this helps.
Saludos

bajadock - 3-22-2016 at 07:22 AM

Punta Morro, on the rocks, adjacent to UABC campus

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Udo - 3-22-2016 at 07:54 AM

We just ate at La Guerrerense yesterday. Great seafood stand!

I would also recommend Punta Morro, and if eating in the Valle, Laja's is a great place.
A more casual place is El Gaucho, a Argentinian restaurant just east of the traffic light, on the north side of the road.

cliffh - 3-22-2016 at 08:38 AM

Had good meal at Sanos tues. night just south of Coral Hotel, lamb rack fixed perfect, my pal had Lamb shank will be going back with the wife in June.

KurtG - 3-22-2016 at 09:40 AM

Quote: Originally posted by fdt

There are a couple of great "new" restaurants in Ensenada, like Manzanilla beeing the best, voted one of the best 50 restaurants in Latin America. Unfortunately they are closed Monday and Tuesday.
As for that taco cart you mention, it has everything except tacos. La Guerrerense is cart but they sell ceviche, all kinds, clam, fish, shrimp, sea urchin, bacalao (cod), snail, just to name a few. They have sea food cocteles also but Anthony never had a taco there, since they don't sell them.
Again, unfortunately they are closed on Tuesdays.

Now, a great sea food restaurant that is not new but is great, is Mariscos Bahia Ensenada on Lopez Mateos and Riverol. I imagine you are looking for sea food.

If what you want is a great fish taco and not necessarily to eat were Anthony ate, it has to be Tacos Fenix, on Juarez and Espinoza
I hope this helps.
Saludos

I'm also a fan of Mariscos, always good. My standard lunch there is a medium bowl of mixed seafood soup and a small green salad for about ten bucks. Soup is full of good stuff with lots of shrimp.

gsbotanico - 3-22-2016 at 01:32 PM

Manzanilla is a great restaurant, although it's not exactly new, which is what the original poster asked for. It's been there about 15 years. I first ate there around 2000 or 2001 when it had only been open a few months. I just read that Manzanilla has a self-described rustic eating place ("comedor rústicci") in Valle de Guadalupe that is only open in the summer and cooks over a wood fire. Now that I want to try!

Punta Morro has also been around for quite a while. Great view and food.