Lucy's Bakery & Donuts

Sherman Heights, San Diego · Mexican · $

A cemita is Puebla's sandwich: a sesame-seed roll stacked with milanesa or shredded pierna, avocado, onion, chipotle and cheese, the kind of thing a city builds a whole street-food culture around. Lucy's is a cramped bakery off Imperial Avenue that sells pan dulce from a glass case and quietly makes three versions of the cemita for well under ten dollars. Order in Spanish, take the pierna, and grab a concha for the road.