Puerto Nuevo, Restaurant Row, Rosarito Beach Open DailyOpen dailu 10 a.m. – 11 p.m. ($15 – $30).
Puerto Nuevo Lobster
This is where you’ll find the world famous Puerto Nuevo fishing village with its 38 fabulous restaurants. This dining destination is so popular that they literally serve over 1,000 meals every weekend.
Just how this small fishing village made it into the history books is an interesting story. Puerto Nuevo was founded in the 1940s. Around 1950, three families of fishermen from the state of Jalisco, Mexico arrived in Puerto Nuevo. They worked at what they knew, which was fishing.
During the weekends, they would take visitors out for sportfishing on their boats. Then they would invite them to their homes for dinner. Gradually, these visitors began returning to the fisher men’s houses. They would ask if the fishermen’s wives would be so kind as to cook them lobster dinners such as they had enjoyed after their fishing trips. And the rest, as they say, is history.
The meals that those guests craved are the same that visitors to Puerto Nuevo crave today. Puerto Nuevo-slyle lobsters are still cooked the same way as they were back then—alive. Then they are cut in half and deep-fried. They are seasoned with garlic, salt and pepper and served with rice, retried beans and flour tortillas cooked Sonora-style with red salsa.
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