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Clay mugs, hacienda walls, and a menu long enough to require a strategy session: Esencia is a traditional Mexican breakfast restaurant doing the kind of morning spread that makes you rethink your whole itinerary. Regional egg dishes, several styles of chilaquiles, and morning stews anchor things. The local move is chilaquiles piled with birria de res, Tijuana's signature slow-cooked beef, which feels like someone combined two great ideas and called it breakfast.
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One number, weighted & current 65
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Huevos motuleños
“Try huevos motuleños, a dish from Motul, Yucatán — fried eggs in a generous platter of beans, chopped ham, peas, slices of plantains and salsa martajada, a roasted tomato and chile sauce.”
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Enfrijoladas
“Enfrijoladas are corn tortillas stuffed with panela cheese and drowned in bean sauce.”
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