Top 7 Tijuana Restaurants

Business is booming on the border. With sweeping hilltop views of Mexico's premier wine country, here, chef Diego Hernandez creates daily fixed-price menus that are basically Baja-Mediterranean with some Asian accents, utilizing a wide range of vegetables and herbs grown on the property (his cold mint soup wins raves), along with local duck and quail, and seafood from the nearby coast at Ensenada (smoked tuna figures often), served with the hotel's own wines.
The city's tourist centers include Downtown Tijuana including the nightlife hot spots around La Sexta , Avenida Revolucion , souvenir shopping at the Mercado de Artesanías and Plaza Viva Tijuana , Tijuana's Cultural Center ( CECUT ) and neighboring Plaza Río Tijuana shopping center, and the city's best known vices, in the form of its legal Red Light District and gambling ( Agua Caliente ). Mexico's drinking age of 18 (vs.



A small terminal downtown serves a few Mexican bus lines, and U.S.-based Greyhound Lines and Crucero USA Another bus station near the border provides frequent service to Ensenada , and other major cities—including Mazatlán , Culiacán , Hermosillo , and Guadalajara Major bus lines operating in Tijuana include Azul y Blanco de Magallanes (Blue & White) and Transporte Efectivo Express de Tijuana - TEEXTI; modernizing system originally intended to phase out the other lines that partially introduced but ceased and merged with Azul y Blanco.
The restaurant sources 20 different vegetables from its own organic greenhouse Chef Sylvain Révélant's menu includes marinated cobia with oyster whipped cream, Sichuan pepper, and French caviar; breaded sea bass with chestnuts and cardamom; and venison with salsify and gingerbread, prickly pear, and juniper berry jus.

Human Rights Watch's 50-page report, ‘ We Can't Help You Here': US Returns of Asylum Seekers to Mexico ,” finds that thousands of asylum seekers from Central America and elsewhere, including more than 4,780 children, are facing potentially dangerous and unlivable conditions after US authorities return them to Mexico.
Plascencia, who went to high school and culinary school in San Diego, says Misión 19 wouldn't have succeeded a decade ago, mainly because diners lacked a sense of adventure, and also because local farmers and fishermen used to send their best products north.
The art house movie theater-cum-cocktail bar and restaurant mini-chain has opened its third installment on Avenida Revolucion in Tijuana, which boasts a sprawling rooftop terrace, extensive cocktail, wine and beer list and a food menu designed by famed Ensenada chef Diego Hernandez.

At his eponymous ground-floor restaurant in the Fierro Hotel, a 27-room boutique hotel, Gipponi serves cosmopolitan Argentinian cuisine expertly paired with wines selected by sommelier Andrés Rosberg, president of the Argentine Sommelier Association.
When he's not overseeing the cooking at MeroToro in Mexico City (see number 47 ), Jair Téllez — whose background includes stints at Daniel in New York City, La Folie in San Francisco, and the Four Seasons in Mexico City — is designing daily four- and eight-course fixed-price menus here at his original restaurant, a rustic, laid-back establishment in the Mexican wine country of the Valle de Guadalupe.
As of June 24, more than fifteen thousand asylum seekers primarily from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador had been returned to Ciudad Juárez, Tijuana, and Mexicali with instructions to appear - sometimes months later - in immigration courts across the border in the US. According to the Mexican government, the returned asylum seekers included at least 13 pregnant women, LGBT people, and persons with mental or physical disabilities, who face greater risks.

29 In this borough sits the Tijuana International Airport The Tijuana campus of the Autonomous University of Baja California and the Technologico are also located here as well as many maquiladoras This is the borough with the largest number of factories and maquiladoras Its largest colony is Ciudad Industrial ("Industrial City").
One of Buenos Aires' more secretive restaurants, Tegui surprises guests as soon as they arrive: In order to enter the restaurant, you have to pass through a door surrounded by graffiti Chef Germán Martitegui has created a signature style, and the kitchen could be considered more of a lab for new culinary inventions.