Fish taco
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Fish taco is a signature dish of United States; we have verified places to eat it in San Diego. Beer-battered white fish, fried golden, served on warm corn tortillas with shredded cabbage, white sauce, salsa fresca and a wedge of lime. Start with where to eat Fish taco in San Diego.

Fish taco · San Diego

Beer-battered white fish, fried golden, served on warm corn tortillas with shredded cabbage, white sauce, salsa fresca and a wedge of lime. The Baja-California original; San Diego made it national in 1983.

The fish taco crossed the border with surfers and fishermen from San Felipe and Ensenada, where Baja-California fishing villages had served beer-battered fried fish in a tortilla for generations. Ralph Rubio brought the dish back from a 1973 spring break trip, copied the recipe over seven years and opened the first Rubio's Deli-Mex at a former Orange Julius on Mission Bay Drive in 1983, selling fish tacos at 99 cents. The Rubio's chain put the dish on the national map; San Diego is now the American capital of fish-taco interpretation, from beer-battered originals to grilled mahi mahi at Oscar's and ceviche variants at Blue Water Seafood and Mariscos German trucks.

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