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Lunch Spot near the 1 and 12

baja_gurl25 - 12-15-2023 at 09:46 AM

Hello friends,
I am looking for a good lunch spot to stop at somewhere between Chapala and El Rosarito.

Will be departing San Quintin area making our way to San Ignacio.

Also looking for a spot for Breakfast in Guerrero Negro if anyone has one to recommend.

Thanks!

larryC - 12-15-2023 at 10:26 AM

In GN I have always gotten a good meal at the Malaremo SP? But there are lots of good restaurants in GN.

try this

John M - 12-15-2023 at 10:27 AM

We've stopped many times and other Nomads agree that it's a pretty good meal.

About 1/2 mile south of the junction of Highway 1 and Highway 5 (from San Felipe). Used to be in a small building but they've completed and opened a new, larger building within the last two years. West side of the highway just past the tire shop. Only thing in the area.

20 miles or so north of the Highway 12 Junction.



edited to add photo

John M

[Edited on 12-15-2023 by John M]

chippy - 12-15-2023 at 10:28 AM

Restaurant Nueva Chapala k235 was good ! I think that what the previous poster was refering to.

[Edited on 12-15-2023 by chippy]

baja_gurl25 - 12-15-2023 at 11:04 AM

awesome! Thanks everyone.

mtgoat666 - 12-15-2023 at 11:47 AM

Quote: Originally posted by baja_gurl25  
Hello friends,
I am looking for a good lunch spot to stop at somewhere between Chapala and El Rosarito.

Will be departing San Quintin area making our way to San Ignacio.

Also looking for a spot for Breakfast in Guerrero Negro if anyone has one to recommend.

Thanks!


The restaurants are not much worth mentioning. Road side truck stop food at best, but better fare in san q and GN.

Catavina is a special place. If i am traveling 1, i usually stop and picnic amongst the rocks and get a short hike or climb in.

Along that stretch, you can probably make a better picnic lunch than you will find in a restaurant — and lots of nice side roads to explore and stop and eat lunch.

Now, GN and San Q have nice restaurants. Catavina hotel has good food. SI has a few OK places to eat.

Take fruit and fixings for a charcuterie board and a bottle of wine and have lunch on top of a boulder/mountain in catavina



David K - 12-15-2023 at 03:04 PM

Punta Prieta village (south of the L.A. Bay highway that Google calls Mex 12) on the east side of the highway is a popular restaurant.

wilderone - 12-15-2023 at 05:08 PM

You might enjoy just discovering a little place with a "Loncheria" sign - I've found that the menu is basic but definite home style cooking. You might ask what is especial hoy.

BooJumMan - 12-16-2023 at 06:59 AM

Mauricios right in El Rosarito. Its a truck stop but with awesome food. I always get the fish or seafood dish at lunch (red broth soup) or machaca or huevos rancheros in the morning.
I just tried a new spot in GN across the street from the first gas station for breakfast and it was pretty darn good. Hands down the best coffee I've had in Baja. Just looked it up... Caprichos Coffeehouse.

baja_gurl25 - 12-16-2023 at 10:31 AM

amazing! Thank you!!!

bajaric - 12-16-2023 at 02:25 PM

Many many years ago (1980s?) I remember having lunch at a "loncheria" somewhere along that stretch of Hwy 1 that was all finished in onyx. It must hast have been somewhere near the turnoff to El Marmol. And no, not the schoolhouse, it was a restaurant. Anyone remember that? It is probably in one of the old guidebooks from that period.

These days I would guess that the restaurant at the hotel in Catavinia would be a pretty good choice, don't really know. I usually bring my own food to eat al la Goat.

David K - 12-16-2023 at 04:38 PM

Rancho Sonora, a cafe located next to the El Mármol road, sold onyx figurines. The Nomad Lost Mission Party of 2011 stopped there and took many photos. BAJACAT, El Vergel, and I (at least) the others may not have stopped as we left El Volcán at different moments (bajalou, TW, XRPhilang, DTBushpilot).

See the final 9 photos: https://vivabaja.com/p411/

Don Jorge - 12-17-2023 at 11:11 AM

Quote: Originally posted by bajaric  
Many many years ago (1980s?) I remember having lunch at a "loncheria" somewhere along that stretch of Hwy 1 that was all finished in onyx. It must hast have been somewhere near the turnoff to El Marmol. And no, not the schoolhouse, it was a restaurant. Anyone remember that? It is probably in one of the old guidebooks from that period.

These days I would guess that the restaurant at the hotel in Catavinia would be a pretty good choice, don't really know. I usually bring my own food to eat al la Goat.

In the 80s we used to stop at a place called "Tres Enriques" and there was another place nearby also but can't remember their name. They were close to the Santa Catarina turnoff. They are long gone.

TLBaja79 - 12-17-2023 at 03:32 PM

I 2nd Mauricios in Nuevo Rosarito. Ate there for breakfast and would definitely stop next time.
Good food, good service....

David K - 12-17-2023 at 04:49 PM

Quote: Originally posted by Don Jorge  
Quote: Originally posted by bajaric  
Many many years ago (1980s?) I remember having lunch at a "loncheria" somewhere along that stretch of Hwy 1 that was all finished in onyx. It must hast have been somewhere near the turnoff to El Marmol. And no, not the schoolhouse, it was a restaurant. Anyone remember that? It is probably in one of the old guidebooks from that period.

These days I would guess that the restaurant at the hotel in Catavinia would be a pretty good choice, don't really know. I usually bring my own food to eat al la Goat.

In the 80s we used to stop at a place called "Tres Enriques" and there was another place nearby also but can't remember their name. They were close to the Santa Catarina turnoff. They are long gone.


Tres Enriques restaurant caught fire and they returned to the original ranch on the original Baja road, agriculture paid better.

Just down the road was Rancho Sonora, a café, also once was on the original road and relocated when those nasty highway engineers took away their stream of customers and put them a mile south.

In 1970, this is how Cliff Cross illustrated the region (yes, he did put the Agua Dulce spring on the wrong side of the road):







All of Cliff's maps preserved: https://vivabaja.com/cliff-cross-maps/