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After a successful residency at Vino Carta in Solana Beach, Juan Gonzalez and Megan Strom have settled into a cozy counter-service restaurant on the main strip in North County, where Mesa Agricola serves wallet-friendly guisados on house-made corn tortillas or in burritos Norteños on flour tortillas. Using produce from Strom’s farm in Valley Center, Gonzalez prepares between seven and 11 types of guisados each morning, with choices like rajas, calabacitas (a mix of various squashes), shrimp ranchero, cochinita or roasted pork, turkey mole, steak ranchera, and chorizo con nopales, many based on dishes he grew up with in Rosarito, Mexico. Don’t skip the rotating aqua frescas, such as bougainvillea lima and cucumber lima. - Helen I. Hwang