El Indio Mexican Restaurant and Catering

Middletown, San Diego · Mexican · $

El Indio opened in 1940 as a tortilla factory at India and Grape, supplying other restaurants years before it fed anyone at a counter. The taquito claim is theirs and the practice backs it up: corn tortillas are still made on site and rolled the same day. Eighty-six years in, you order at the window and carry the tray across India Street to the patio.