05/19/2013
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05/18/2013
Best Breakfast in Baja by Will Ebersman
It’s Saturday morning in Rosarito Beach, Mexico. Phil and I decided to go check out a
restaurant we had scouted out several weeks ago. The restaurant of choice is LA Estancia,
located several blocks off of Benito Juarez Boulevard, the main street in
Rosarito, parallel to the pay road (quota), on the ocean-side (as you’re
heading south) in Rosarito Beach.
If you’re in Rosarito, you need to check this place out. If you’re in San Diego, you need to check this place out. If you’re driving to Ensenada, San Felipe or almost any town in Baja Norte, you owe it to yourself to stop in.
I’ve had great meals in Rosarito, Puerto Nuevo and Ensenada. The best breakfast I’ve had in Mexico, hands
down, was served to me at La Estancia this morning. That’s not a knock against the many fine
restaurants I’ve eaten at. The food at
La Estancia is just that good.
I’m going to offer up several apologies. First, some of you may not be within travelling distance of the restaurant. I’m sorry about that. Secondly, we normally offer up a photograph of the plated food. We couldn’t wait long enough to pull out a camera so there are no photos of today’s breakfasts. Lastly, to my wife who loves lamb; yes, I’ll bring you here the next time you travel with me to Rosarito.
From the outside, La Estancia is an imposing piece of corner
property. A water fall, consisting of
old buoy floats, is in the road median, just outside. The restaurant offers a variety of seating
options. There is an open air patio, a
covered patio, several dining areas inside that can accommodate groups up to 40
or so. Upstairs, are several more dining
areas.
The restaurant also offers a unique dining experience in
their wine cave, located in the center of the restaurant. This space offers table seating for up to
twenty, depending on whether you have separate tables or one long table. The cost to rent this space for the day is
500 pesos or approximately $40 US dollars.
It’s a great place for an intimate dinner for two, a birthday or
anniversary or other significant event in your life.
Phil had the Rib Eye steak and eggs. I’m guessing that the steak was at least 16
ounces. Cooked over a wood fire, it was
tender, juicy and little bit the pink in the center. I’m a meat eater and tried some. That rib eye was comparable to any steak I’ve
ever had in the United States. About an
inch and a quarter thick, it had a little crust of juices roasted over the wood
fire, and was cooked perfectly.
Remember, this is the breakfast steak.
Alongside the wood fire the steaks are cooked on are the large stockpots where the day’s soups are prepared. Today’s was Tortilla soup, cooked in a pot that easily held 25 gallons of good eating.
Even before breakfast arrived, we had the usual bowl of salsa and
chips. The restaurant has their own bakery so we also had hot rolls in several
varieties, still warm from the oven.
Coffee, served in old aluminum percolator-style pots is kept hot over
the top rack in the wood-fire ovens.
Several of the dining rooms have fireplaces in use, fueled by manzanita
and other fragrant woods.
Coffee was also done well. It appeared that the beans were freshly ground and brewed. A touch of cinnamon was added; this enhanced the flavor greatly.
Arriving ahead of Phil’s steak was a fresh, crisp green salad. The steak came with two eggs, any style, a baked potato and freshly-made flour tortillas. The aroma of the steak, combined with the slight smokiness of the wood fire, made this an irresistible meal.
I decided to try the machaca, which I use as an indication of a restaurant’s ability to prepare what should be a basic Mexican breakfast. I decided to try the lamb, simply because I had never seen it offered up as machaca before.
To put it simply, La Estancia nailed it. The lamb was soft, well-shredded and still remained juicy and flavorful. The eggs were done well, but not overcooked. The peppers and tomatoes were cooked without being overcooked. The plate also came with a small potato pancake and refried beans.
Other items worth trying include the Quail appetizer (about $3.75 US), Rack of lamb (about $23 US) or any item involving beef.
The cost for the two breakfasts, and two cups of coffee, was exactly $20 US. The service was terrific and we had constantly filled coffee.
La Estancia opens for breakfast at 8 am and stays open until 10 pm during the week; weekend hours run to 11 pm. Credit cards are accepted. A full service bar is available. The in-house bakery has items available for take-out. There is a large screen TV in one of the dining room for those who like to watch sports. Tips are added to tables of six or more.
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05/17/2013
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05/16/2013
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05/15/2013
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05/14/2013
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05/13/2013
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05/12/2013
What Makes It All Go Around. . . .Forage by Bob Osborn
The last few days fishing here in Surfside has been nothing
short of awesome. Halibut, Yellowfin
Croaker, Spotfin Croaker, Barred Surf Perch, and a variety of skates, rays, and
sharks made up the fare for the week. In
the past week we have been blessed by an abundance of forage that has brought
more than the normal number of game fish to feed on the shore.
Double and triple hookups were the name of the game as Phil, Art Soriano, Scott Buchert, Phil Jr, Bleu Cotton, and others had a few fantastic days of surf fishing. The size of the fish may not have been what is expected on a tuna trip but with the 6 to 10 lb outfits we were using it was hard to tell the difference in the fun category. The fish were biting the iron with gusto and everybody had a ball.
Tuesday Phil got his first keeper halibut from the surf and
on Wednesday morning when Scott Buchert and Phil’s son showed up for a session;
Phil was so excited he was looking younger than his son.
The entire week has been awesome. The mornings have been just absolutely perfect weather and the afternoons absolutely perfect fishing. A large school of small finfish hanging just offshore has marked the entire week. Helen of Troy may have launched a thousand ships that that was really small potatoes compared to the fleet of grebes that have been hanging out over the top of this school of forage all week long. If the defenders of Troy had seen a fleet this size they would have immediately sued for peace.
Each afternoon the activity would increase dramatically and squadrons of terns would fly into the zone and begin their strafing and dive bombing runs, first a few hundred yards offshore, then gradually moving to inside of the breakers in the early evening. We spent a lot of time glassing this activity and talked about what this forage consisted of. There had been many reports of an abundance of pinhead anchovies in the area but we noted that the new moon this week had a predicted grunion run associated with it.
It’s been many years since I have seen a live grunion. I don’t think that’s an indicator of the
health of grunion as running around the beach in the middle of the night isn’t
exactly what middle age and beyond folks typically tend to do even when they
are a dyed-in-the-wool fishing nutcase.
Also it seems probable that a few decades of the warm water regime we went
through until recently might have made the sight of grunion on the beaches a
bit rarer.
I think the last time I seriously hunted grunion for calico bass bait was about 40 years ago. I did spend a cold and fruitless night on the beach back this March waiting for these elusive rascals. At any rate, with all the interesting activity this week I figured I should go give it another shot.
I got to the beach about 45 minutes after the predicted start of the run. Not bad because the prime time is actually one hour past the start. I had no flashlight with me so the first thing I noticed was the sound of the grunion flopping around on the beach. I pulled out my iphone and started taking pictures and each time the flash went off I could see the beach was covered with these little fish. I probably took a hundred pictures of them and got a few pictures to come out. I think I got about 75 shots of my finger in front of the lens. It’s beyond me how the engineers over at Apple decided to put the lens in upper corner of the iphone right where you tend to hold it instead of in the center of the phone like any typical camera.
Yep, its forage that makes for healthy populations of larger fish and its forage that makes for great fishing opportunities. Whether the forage is anchovies, sardines, squid, pacific mackerel, or pacific bonito they play a critical role in the biological systems that support great fisheries.
The taking of grunion is closed in April and May for the purpose of giving these critters a chance to reproduce. Grunion were originally regulated in 1927 to provide them an opportunity to spawn. The closure then was for 3 months, April thru June. However, in 1947 it was shortened to the current two months of April and May.
Last night was good medicine for me. I walked off the beach a bit past midnight grinning ear to ear thinking that all is well with the world. It’s really nice to get an occasional glance at that.
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