Taking my Ensenada (non-working) novia to TJ this Friday for the day and possibly night… Since I don’t know jack about TJ I wanted to ask if any of you had any suggestions for a day trip. The only requirement is it must contain tipping a few beers,,, and o’yeah,,,, don’t want to run across the zona…..a good outside restaurant with mariachis might be nice…..and then some head slamming music later….. any ideas guy’s???
Tequila Please

Go to Ave Revolucion

and when you get ther, go to Iguana Ramas. Good place for someone with a non-working g/f. Theres NO chance of accidentally running into the zona from there unless youre really trying :-)

LTZ

It's "Iguana Y Rana" (Lizard and Frog)

Tequilla Please,
On Revoluction and 10th is a Resturant call the Hacianda, great food with Marachi music. After wards there's the Las Pulgas on Revolution and 8th there's disco music with an open front and 2 beers for $2 monday thru friday. Also, there's two saloons for dancing in the back. The Vacaro and Cachinitas, she's love the romantic music in the Cachinitas. $5 cover after 8:00PM. Or plaza Rio has a Movie theatre's and a Resturant called the California. Good food! Free beers before 6:00PM with buffee. All you can drink beers. I think there's a Carnival on Agua Caliente in Ribintone next to the Hipadrome too. Women of all ages love that. I go all the time. Really cheap too! Or take her to Porto Newevo for Lobster. $6.99 per person at the Vista del Mar and Punta Piedra!

There's so much more! Tell us how you managed to land a NON working girl? Most mongers haven't got a clue!

Westfargo...

Wow guys, lots of good info, the romantic music, good food and free beers will definitely do the trick.
How to land a NON working girl? Not that hard really, don’t look for them and make friends with local guys, that’s right, guy’s. Find a friend or two, guy’s you like hanging with and before you know it you’ll be invited to the house for dinner, parties, ect. The cool part is that once your connected with a guy friend it grows to his family then their friends and then all of a sudden your meeting people left and right. This obviously won’t work for the occasional visitor but once you’re in it seems like you go to the top of everyone’s invite list. These people are very intrigued with one of us wanting to be there. It’s not “normal” in their eyes…….
Tequila Please.

A PS to the above post.

Don't let age difference's get in the way, I'm 40ish, my novia was 19 when I met her and is now 20. Her pervious long term relationship was with a 38 year old Mex national....

She looks at anyone under 30 as a child and worthless for a relationship (her words, not mine)

Good hunting.
Tequila Please

Tequila_Please,

After 2:00 pm There is a live banda and plenty of sea food at EL NEGRO DURAZO its by la Zona Rio. Close by you can also take her to window shop at the mall in La Zona Rio. I'm prety sure she will like it. Also you you are driving by all means drive down the coast and go to Puerto Nuevo. If you have time.

Valentino

Ps, I hope you have time for other activities since it's a one day trip.

Valentino,
Actually I'm leaving here in about an hour and live half time in Ensenada so I go by Puerto Nuevo twice a week. I just wanted to get out of Ens for a day maybe day and a half.
Like I said I don't know jack about TJ even though I've been going and living in Ens my entire life,,, can you explain where Zona Rio is?
O'yeah, and what girl dosn't like shopping? =)
Tequila Please

T_P, If you see this in time, Zona Rio is the upscale commercial area starting just across the border from the San Ysidro crossing, extending for about two blocks on either side of the TJ River. The shopping and restaurants are all on the southwest side, along Paseo de Los Heroes and Sanchez Taboada (sp?). The Plaza Rio mall is at the corner of Independencia and Los Heroes. They have two theaters, the smaller of which is more luxurious than 99% of the ones in the USA. It is called the VIP, and only has 3 screens, but it features loveseat-style seating, a sushi bar, espresso bar, etc. Right across the street is Plaza Fiesta, an upscale nightclub area which should be going pretty good by 9 or 10 PM on a Thursday night. Very different crowd than Las Pulgas, which is much more working class. It just depends on what you prefer. Again, just personal preference, but I can't stand the food at the California Grill in Plaza Rio.

Vanessa used to like to go to that California place in Plaza Rio. That was one of my first experiences dining out (if you can call it that) in TJ. I remember looking across the table at her gorgeous face and thinking to my self, "you actually like this crap? They sell dog food out of a can that tastes better than this shit!" Not that I would know what dog food out of a can would taste like and not that there's anything wrong with that. I didn't read the whole thread but don't eat there. You'd be better of in Sandborns (SP?) which is actually worse than Denny's.

P.S. OK I just scanned the thread. Westfargo likes the food there. Makes sense now.

And your idol(s) like(s) the (unlimited) free beers. For somebody that suppoesdly spends that much on valet parking w/ his skanky dates in the states, you'd think you'd be more forgiving.

Porker, you are my hero. I wish my twenty-two foot Airstream travel-trailer wouldn't have washed away in the big storm of '97. I would have invited you over. It was right there on the beach, in a shitty little trailer park, on the wrong side of the road. I tried to hold on to it, but a great big voice said, "let it go." And so I did.

Right now, I'm living in my van, down by the river, near San Louis Bueno. The stray dogs chewed my tires off. So I'm stuck there, for the most part. Hey, if any of y'all know a good cheap, trashy apartment building near anything except that stinkin' river, give me a holler here at 'I Know Fucking Jack Shit About Tijuana.'

And, always remember, everything you know may be wrong.

Hey, do me a favor and say hi to mi amigo Matt Foley for me, OK??? I miss that fat bastard.

I'll try, hombre. Maybe you should come up here. We could hang out. I don't get out much since my woman traded my prosthetic leg for a five-dollar rock and a fourty-ouncer. But, hell, you seem like a nice enough guy. Shit, mi casa es su casa, 'n all.

You know. last winter, after all the shit blew over, I had a nice little place on the beach. Where in the hell were you. My door is always open. I know, sometimes I let the wrong ones in and keep the right ones out. Discernment. Now there's a word for the wise.

That comment about "everything you know..." was not directed toward you personally. It was just to remind myself to be wary of all the lies that can heap-up on a man -bury him neck deep and sufficate him -like the squeezin' of some evil bitch-snake.

So, has this Foley guy got any game. I sure as hell don't.

The Wasabi' character comes out of storage! VERY nice. Have fun...and remember, this site will beat any competitor's site....or your mattress is....FREE-EEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeee!!!

Tmoney,
For Mexico, it's good food! I grew up in Pacific Palisades, in a very wealth family. We went to the finest resturants. Like the Italians say! Food is only 50% of the experience. Even the finest restuarnts in Mexico can't even begin to compare to the average one's in Santa Monica or San Francisco. You know the cooks in Mexico, caugh, sneeze, spit, don't wash their hands, live in a pig sty! Even if the food is out of this world in Mexico, I give it a low score. Because I know it's a show! Cooks in the US make money! Even in the Mexico city the shefs make a few pesos a day. The waitors make the bucks.

The Califonia restaruant does have bad food, conpared to the US. But, when your in Mexico you have to chance gears. That's way you guys don't mine paying $50 for 30 minutes from a old used up whore. In the US that's a good price. But in Mexico! Ask any Mexican! They'll laugh and say, what's wrong with any nice 18 years old that lives at home. Why would you pay money for a gal when 99.999% are much nicer and for free!

Westfargo...

Porker, I asked Bennett Brower, a recently unemployed news anchor, about that Foley guy. He said that Matt was one of the most beautiful persons to have ever ended his own life. Bennett then got real quiet and began to arrange his desk. There in the back corner of the news room, he sharpened all his pencils, cleared the notes and not so recent memos off his blotter. He squared his wood and brass name plate to the top center of his small metal desk, rested his large hands, one atop the other, and calmly stared off into the center of business at 'news central.' Last week, Bennett was fired from his job of twenty years. No one seemed to mind that he still came into work late, unwashed and dissheveled, every day at 8:27am.

You're beautiful and I'm not. But, that's o.k. Now, I've really just got to go, man. I just like long good-byes.

Actually, WF, I don't think California Grill's food is good in comparison to other places in TJ, not just the U.S. I rank it about even with Sanborns and La Placita, both of which I hate. But hey, that is just my opinion

Sanborns and Calif. grill are both horrible. Bad service and bad food. La Differencia and Saverio's are my favorite's. La Differencia on Sanchez Taboda and Saverio's around the corner one block away. If you want to spend less or don't care about ambiance, try Como Que No, ask for Ramon, he is manager during the day, speaks English and Spanish. He helps me with my chica's, breaking up with them or impressing them he helps interpert for me. This place is mostly empty daytime. Also Marisco's De Mazatlan is good for fish, close to Como Que No.

SP, that is Faro de Mazatlan, not Marisco's. Otherwise, I agree 100%, although I do not know Ramon.

Your'e right, my mistake.Thank you.

Just an up-date on what happened.
Just a little side note so you’ll know why we didn’t go dancing. Last week I jumped out of the back of my new truck and broke my foot, daughter said, dad, your not fifteen, your almost three fifteens so start acting like it! I bought the truck because it has a full sized back sit and in the first month has really gotten used. For those of you who have never married (three times for me) a Mexican girl the saying, “when you marry her you marry the family” is sooooooooooooo true. So, needless to say we spend a lot of time parked on the beach in Ensenada, therefore, four-wheel drive, quad cab.
Anyway, we left Ens around 10:00am and arrived in TJ at 11:00am (I know the road well). Went to the little plaza just a couple of blocks from the zona. Had lunch at a little restaurant and was really surprised at the quality and qty of the food,,,, good start. We decided just to spend some time walking up and down Revolution to have a few beers and shop. Stopped at a place called Animal, upstairs on a corner, a Brandy & Coke and one beer, $13.00, fuck this shit, let’s go. Walking east (I think) we ran into Las Pulgas, great day time place if you just want to kick back, $1.75 for beers and lots of room. We did two or three slow songs up on the stage since there was no equipment and few people. From there it was back to the Hard Rock Café, Too many beers and my buddy Don Julio finally came around. Another hour or so of walking around and off to Porto Nuevo for Lobster.
We decided to sneak back into Ens and catch a hotel so we could be away from child and family just one night (mom and bro lives with us). The best part of the day came on the road between Porto Nuevo and Ens, this is one of those “she doesn’t get out much” situations. Everytime we passed a truck she has me slow a little and starts giving me a blow job,,,I’ve got the tilt wheel all the way forward and she starts bobbing,,,and after we pass she starts laughing like a school girl,,,, after awhile I’m not even part of the event except it’s my dick being used,,, I’ve never seen her laugh so hard,,,, guess I’ll have to take her out on more day trips…
Once in the hotel, we don’t even get the door closed before we’re on the bed, on the floor, on the bed and in the shower,,,,,, everytime I’m with this girl it’s like closing night on the world. After I don’t know how much time we stumbled over to El Patio for a couple of drinks and then back to the hotel for another round and deep well deserved sleep.
Side note: These women, working or not working are driven to have fun and please they’re man somewhere in the middle….. It was a great day….
Tequila Please

After considering this closely, I will say you are lucky and better off. The less you know-probally the better. Because if you knew all the shitty stuff you`d never want to go there. I can`t believe all the bad things that have happened to me-I try very hard to force them out of my head. Or at least into a very dark, deep corner!