WHY MEXA GRUB?

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Find chef Ana Ochoa and her "Mexa Grub" inside the La Jolla Open Aire Market. Our tip: La Torta del Ocho—a toasted telera roll with chilaquiles, beans, cheese, soyrizo, chipotle aioli and cilantro crema.

Recommended by: Chef Claudette Zepeda, Culinary director of Vaga, a James Beard semifinalist, Top Chef/Iron Chef contender

by:  CHEF CLAUDETTE ZEPEDA

San Diego is home to dozens of weekly pop-up markets where you can find some of the tastiest food from hardworking micro entrepreneurs, many of whom are on the path to building their own brick-and-mortar restaurants. Casa Ocho is one success story and a beloved local favorite thanks to its decadent vegetarian Mexa Grub- fully loaded street-style tortas, chilaquiles, and more. It now has a more permanent home located behind Old Town's Flor & Seed coffee shop; go for the Tres Chanclas, its triple-stacked take on a quesadilla, and stay for La Torta del Ocho, its take on a Mexican barrio staple made with chilaquiles stuffed into a telera roll.