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tripledigitken
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Halfway House
Does anyone know if the restaurant is still open? The last time we went very few people were there.
The food is always excellent and the service has been cordial as well.
I hope they are weathering the current business climate.
Ken
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toneart
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| Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
Does anyone know if the restaurant is still open? The last time we went very few people were there.
The food is always excellent and the service has been cordial as well.
I hope they are weathering the current business climate.
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In what hemisphere,Ken?
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tripledigitken
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Fair question, sorry.
In reading the thread about La Fonda the question came to mind.
Halfway House is between La Fonda and Rosarito Beach just north of the Pyramid Hotel.
Ken
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toneart
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Thank you! You answered my question. Wish I could answer yours.
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Dave
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The restaurant is open. Normally closes around 9-10pm depending on business. They have an excellent shrimp c-cktail. The daily special is
usually good and priced right...70pesos.
Tough to get to during the cuota resurfacing. Either stay on the old road out of Primo Tapia or get off at la Fonda and head north.
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tripledigitken
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Thanks, very good news.
Ken
ps Baja Nomad's own, Greg Nieman, writes about it in his excellent book "Baja Legends"
[Edited on 6-17-2009 by tripledigitken]
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David K
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The Halfway House (Medio Camino)
Chef Johnny is one great guy... was the chef to Mexico's president some years ago...
Food is awesome...
I have posted several photos of the food and location in my trip reports here on Nomad over the past few years... do a search.
Here is Chef Johnny and I in 2006:
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Bajaboy
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I'll add to the positive comments regarding Halfway House...we love to sit on the back patio.
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SteveD
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We had dinner there last month. Food was great. Sunset view was great. Chef Johnny is still a great person and still with a positive attitude even
after the resturant was held up earlier this year and he was shot in the foot!
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Martyman
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I went there a lot in the late 60s early 70s to go camping on the bluffs south of the restaurant. We'd catch cabezon and other fish off the cliffs
when I wasn't chucking cherry bombs in the water or blasting off skyrockets. Great memories with my folks.
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Vince
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When I started going there with my parents in the late '40's, it was very popular. I remember some fossels of huge snails, millions of years old. We
would fish off the rocks. Later we would use it as our watering hole and lunch on our diving/surfing trips. In the late '50's an acquaintance of mine
got into a gun battle (I wasn't there) with the federales and was fortunatly only shot in the leg and they let him return to the USA for care. Talk
about luck! Good memories @ the Halfway house!
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Ryan
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Supposedly, two armed men came in there several months back and demanded all the money from the register. When the bartender refused, one of the guys
shot his gun at the ceiling. The bullet ricocheted off the ceiling and shot one of the cooks in the foot. He was fine, just a bit peeed off.
The robbers got away with about $200 in cash...
True story.
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We were there on a Sunday afternoon on our way back from our house at Punta Banda. Had a wonderful meal and visit with the chef.
The last time I was there was about thirty years ago. Every time we would pass the restaurant, I would say to the wife that we must stop there some
time. Well, we did and will stop and have dinner and enjoy the sun set in the near future!
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Halfway House
I think s a personal commitment for Chef Johnny and I guess that he is keeping the lights on and the doors open through running an evidently
successful catering business and teaching cooking classes.
He has been there for more than six years, so I think that he's found a formula that works for that location.
IMHO, GJ
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Barry A.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Vince
When I started going there with my parents in the late '40's, it was very popular. I remember some fossels of huge snails, millions of years old. We
would fish off the rocks. Later we would use it as our watering hole and lunch on our diving/surfing trips. In the late '50's an acquaintance of mine
got into a gun battle (I wasn't there) with the federales and was fortunatly only shot in the leg and they let him return to the USA for care. Talk
about luck! Good memories @ the Halfway house! |
Yep, many good times at the HALFWAY HOUSE back in the '50's--------that story about the gun battle rings a bell-------amazing how lucky we ALL were
back in those days, as I now look back on it.  Just be very thankful you
WERN'T there that night, Vince.  I still have scars and bumps on my
head from that night, and I wasn't even shot. Our mutual friend never fired a shot, tho, so it really was not a "gunbattle"------the Federales just
shot him because they did not know what else to do, I suppose. What a night!!! I still make it a point to stop by there and have a beer for old times
sake whenever I pass by (even tho the memories make my head hurt). 
Nuff said on THAT subject!!! Long, long ago------
Barry
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He has always had great food We stop their every chance we get
Mick
Getting there is ALL the fun!
Ok being here is fun to
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David K
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Bump!
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Gypsy Jan
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Halfway House, Rosarito
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjdB1xLX0ZA
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
\"Alea iacta est.\"
—Julius Caesar
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Vince
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Thanks, makes me want to go right down there. I has been too long.
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What's an excellent shrimp c-cktail? Not like a chef has to sweat in the kitchen. He thaws some frozen shrimp and opens a bottle of c-cktail sauce.
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