El Original Mariscos German

Encanto, San Diego · Mexican · $$

Jorge Fuentes opened a mariscos restaurant in Tijuana in 1997, then noticed that every seafood place in San Diego was a sit-down room. In 2005 he and a partner put mariscos on a truck, one of the first in the city devoted entirely to seafood, and the Beyer Boulevard original has made national taco lists ever since. The ahi-chile tostada, aguachile remade with tuna and pineapple, is the signature; the Gaucho taco of smoked tuna and octopus is the sleeper.