Puerto Nuevo History: How a Baja Fishing Village Invented the Lobster Dinner San Diego Can’t Stop Ordering
Puerto Nuevo history began with fishermen’s wives frying lobster for visitors in a small Baja California village. Ortega’s, A Mexican Bistro carried that tradition into Hillcrest in the 1950s, and the Ortega family has served the same Puerto Nuevo-style lobster dinner ever since — the story behind nearly everything on the menu.