Where to Eat Mexican Food in the South Bay | Eater San Diego

"Don Rafa offers some classic Jalisco-style Mexican dishes, like menudo and carne en su jugo (beef simmered in its own juices, flavored with bacon, in a tomatillo flavored broth), but it’s the birria (stew), available with goat or beef, that you must order. Also try the quesadilla ahogada, which consists of a fresh flour tortilla piled high with the tender stew and melty cheese, placed on a plate of beans and covered in the broth that the birria has simmered away in for hours. Be careful, because the salsa — a secret recipe made from between 12 and 15 different types of chile — is definitely on the high end of spiciness. The restaurant even has warnings on the wall." - Kristin Díaz de Sandi