Best Tacos & Fun Things To Do | The ULTIMATE Guide to Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico.
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Have you been to Baja California, Mexico? Well let me tell you, it’s a pretty fun and tasty place to go!
Since my Husband was a kid, his family has been going to Rosarito Baja California Mexico, every year for the past 20+ years, since 2002.
When we got married, in 2015 they were excited to take me on this adventure too.
In fact his family ditched us the day after we got married to go down there, haha.
We were pretty sad, but then we didn’t really think about it while on our honeymoon, if you know what I mean! ;)
Anyway we did end up going about 6 months later and have gone many more times since!
Let’s Get Started
You’ll see what we do, where we shop and our favorite places to eat! Fish tacos YUM!
Where to begin… I’ll start with the drive down.
We pile into as many cars as it takes to get us all down there. Then begins the looooonnnngggg 16 hr drive. (Don’t forget to insure your car and BRING the insurance papers with you to Mexico.)
Here’s a checklist of things to NOT forget:
- PASSPORTS (most important) Remember if you don’t have a passport to get one a few months in advance.
- INSURANCE for your car (second most important)
- Snacks
- Water
- Money(cash or pesos) In Rosarito, most people/places take U.S. dollars
- Boogie Boards
- Tommy Bahama Beach Chairs
- Credit card See if your credit card will be charged extra to be used in Mexico. Be sure to tell them how long you will be gone and where you are going, so they know your card is not stolen.
Ok, lets get back to the trip.
On our way down we try to find at least one special place to stop and eat.
This year we stopped at Burly Burger in, Utah. Justin’s parents had never been there before and we could meet up with my family to say hi, as well.
It was, a win, win!
If you haven’t read about my favorite restaurants in the Ogden read about them here.
To Break Up or Not Break up the Drive? That is the Question!
From there, we either drive half way to St. George or if we are feeling our Wheaties, we do the whole 16 hours in one day.
Wow, typing that out makes it even seem like a crazier thing to do!
If we stop in St. George we get up around 5am to leave so that we can beat the traffic in Vegas.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, we want to be able to eat fish tacos, in Mexico by lunchtime!!!
This last time on the drive down, we stopped and went to Disneyland. I’ll write a post about Disney soon, I promise!
Welcome To Rosarito, Baja California Mexico
Depending on when we get to get across the border is what makes the decision on what taco we get that night/day.
For instance we try to get to Mexico by lunchtime, BUT this time we went to Disneyland instead and got there pretty late and so lots of our favorites were closed, but Tacos El Zurdo was still opened, which we were excided about.
We love their massively HUGE burritos – Burro c/queso y 2 carnes and go there at LEAST a couple times per trip.
So we weren’t put out too much!
If we get there earlier we will choose any one of our other favorite taco joints.!
We try to get groceries Saturday, even when we get in late, so we don’t have to go shopping on Sunday.
We like going to the Soriona Hyper and stocked up for the week, (sometimes we go 2 or 3 times if we run out of chokies or pastries, it keeps the pastries fresh and yummy!)
The things we love and can’t live without:
- Pastries
- Apple Yogurt (my new favorite is the yellow fruit greek yogurt!)
- Chokies
- Manzanita
- Pineapple soda
- Whatever fruit is in season.
- Supplies to make Horchata and Pina Coladas.
Update – A few new things we tried this time…
We got this greek yellow yogurt with all different fruits and that’s my personal favorite now.
- The quaca cheese, is the best cheese, you get it in the deli/cheese area.
AND because we went during October this year, they had:
- El Pande Marteuo (my husband jokingly called them dead pandas🤣) the chocolate filled ones were AHHMAZING!!!
They were so soft, buttery and covered in sugar and the middle had chocolate in it, I wish we would have gotten more of them!
The next shopping trip they were out:( I know sad day… awe next time, next time!
What We Do On The Daily
We get up whenever we feel like it.
For some of us that’s early to see the sunrise and watch the whales or dolphins (we saw a whole pod of dolphins this time! squeal! I’ll post the video soon) and for others it’s enjoying sleeping in.
We eat breakfast, which usually consists of yogurt, choristo eggs burritos, cereal OR pastries!
Sadly, I have to have at least some protein in the morning or I’ll get a mirgraine. So not just pastries for breakfast for me!
*or what we did this time, is went to Tacos El Yaqui for breakfast! Don’t judge! It was a breakfast of champions and amazingly tasty I might add!
If it’s warm enough, we either go to the beach or play pickleball!
Pickleball
When lunchtime rolls around, you guessed it!
We hit another favorite taco place.
After lunch we head back to the beach and stay there until the sun goes down or until it’s too chilly.
Now it’s dinner time, if we don’t hit another taco joint, (which honestly isn’t very often haha) we make dinner in the condo.
After dinner we enjoy relaxing in the hot tub, watching a movie or play games together! One of our favorite card games to play!
*Update, our goal was to eat out all meals, except for breakfast… mission accomplished except for once, when we didn’t want to go anywhere ha ha
The Flea Market
We like going to the flea market and shop around.
This last trip I found a cute hoodie and my husband got a mexican blanket (we use them for our dogs to lay on).
We also get the vanilla we like about a block or so further north at Dis Fruta Neveria.
What We Do At The Beach
What a day at the beach looks like for us.
We gather our tried and true:
- Tommy Bahama chairs
- Boogie Boards
- Beach Shade
- Beach Blanket
- Spikeball
- Snacks
- LOTS of water
- Beach Towels
- Books
- Don’t forget the sunscreen, being sunburned is NOT fun…
Then we head for the beach!
Tommy Bahama Beach Chairs
I want to make mention of the Tommy Bahama chairs.
We love these chairs because they have pockets for snacks, a cooler pocket for drinks.
They are comfy, sit low to the ground and have shoulder straps for easy carrying.
TIP: We clip our boogie boards onto our Tommy Bahamas chairs and pack all of your snacks, books, water etc, etc… which makes going to the beach easier and only takes one trip. LOVE THEM!
Spikeball
We play spikeball more these day, than volleyball.
The reason is, is it’s a LOT smaller to pack and to carry to the beach.
Set up is a breeze!
With Spikeball you can play with 2-6 people which makes it super convenient, no matter the size of group you’re with.
PRO TIP try playing when the tide is low and there is a few inches of water. You can thank me later!
Boogie Boarding in the Ocean
Boogie boarding is probably the most favorite thing we do, no matter how cold it is we go and play at least one day in the ocean! The locals think we’re crazy!
Favorite Places To Eat!
Now that I’ve been made you salivate all over this blog, with all this taco talk, lets actually get to the good stuff! Where do you go to get them? What we love order? and why? Yum I can taste them now! Can you?
Places we LOVE to eat: (we’ll go into more detail about each place.)
Baja jr.
Next on our list is Baja jr. one of my personal favorites. We get the Pescadilla – a fish taco with cheese and either maize (corn) or harina (flour) tortillas and of course add manzantia or pineapple soda to drink.
TIP: Don’t forget to try the different sauces. I love the spicy sauces! If you can’t do spicy, I would suggest beginning with the white sauce. Really that applies to any place you go in Rosarito.
Tacos El Yaqui
Tacos El Yaqui, is my favorite “non fish taco” place to go. It’s more of a traditional Mexican taco, with carne asada and beans! Oh my goodness they are so good!
TIP: if you need to use the restroom, this is a good place to go, It’s clean!
PRO TIP add lime to your manzanita Aaa mazing! Watch out for seeds!
Carnitas La Flor De Michoacon #2
Carnitas La Flor De Michoacon #2, is right next to the flea market.
We will go to the market and then we will go to dinner here.
This is another more traditional food place. You order all the different foods, like al pasdor, beans, rice, and tortillas. You then add all the trimmings, like guac, cilantro, onions, etc…etc… it is so good! We love this place!
Tacos El Zurdo
Tacos El Zurdo, They have HUGE burritos here, LIKE HUGE, HUGE!!! One fed my husband and me for two meals! And we aren’t light eaters… Two huge tortillas were packed with carne asada, al pastor and beans. They were delicious!
Of course I already told you about Tacos El Zurdo it’s one of our favorites. Like I said it’s massive and I wasn’t kidding… it’s super good as leftover too, we add it to eggs burritos for breakfast or just warmed the burrito back up.
El Pechugon is where we get whole chickens, rice and beans on Saturday night for our Sunday meal. We warm it up in the condos oven after church, it’s super tasty!
Update: A new place we tried was La Morenitas (we called it the piggy place, because it had a pig statue in front of it!)
It was really delicious and the other nice thing, was it was just a blockish away from our condo! Which is always a plus!
We liked getting an appetizer of Orden De Frijoles – with refried beans, green and red salsa, tortilla chips, spicy jalapenos and carrots!
I liked their tacos, especially their homemade corn tortillas, BUT my favorite was the Burritos La Morenita – It had both carnita and asada meat and guacamole, super yummy!
And in my opinion you got more for the better price!
Wrapping Up
Well that’s it! We absolutely love going down to Rosatrito and spending quality time together, relaxing on the beach and playing games. If that sounds like your kind of vacation.
Then Rosarito is for YOU!!!!!
Here’s the recipe for the Pina Colada
“Full bellies and road trips make for more joyful journeys, this is just one Country Girls opinion! ENJOY!”
- Have you ever been to Rosarito/Baja California Mexico?
- What was your favorite fish taco or “non-fish” taco or food?
- What were your favorite things to do?
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