El Tarapanco (The Hideout), new in Rosarito
South of town about two miles on the free road, El Tarapanco is located just past the traffic signal, next to the second OXXO mart, on the ocean side
of the road (near the access to the new highway through the hills to Otay in TJ)
From the same family that owns the El Nido restaurants and Los Pelicancos hotel/restaurant in Rosarito, the small, attractive place is decorated in a
rustic style with wood burning fireplaces and an enclosed patio.
ET serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The menu features their organic beef and lamb from their ranches and they offer seafood entrees as well.
The dinner entrees and combinations are all around $25, which come with soup, salad, baked potato and a basket of homemade and
grilled-on-the-mesquite-fire tortillas. The salad is delivered and dressed with selections from a cart with close to a dozen additions (red onions,
alfalfa sprouts, sunflower seeds, etc., etc.) and three dressings. To dress your potato, you have a choice of butter, sour cream, green onions and
(real) bacon bits
We have tried the rack of lamb and the ribeye - excellent. The seafood is predictably served overcooked, even when requested to be served moist.
c-cktails: Beer- $3.00; Margarita - $4.50 and up, Glass of wine, $4.50; Bottle of wine, $20+
The service is excellent and attentive, the premises and facilities are very clean.
The restaurant takes M/C, Visa, and Diners Club (they probably add the standard 6% surcharge as well).
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