7 u 8 Mares

A day of mourning for Ronald Reagan. The public pools were closed. Fortunately we went Thursday night and got part of our weekly exercise done.

We talked about going to the taco shop across street from City Heights Pool before, so we went for Friday's dinner. They had 7 Mares on the menu but 8 Mares painted on the shop window. John wanted to compare how good were the ones we could get in the States to the one we had in Ensenada, BC, Mexico.

We never ordered this caldo (broth or clear soup) because it's always one of the most expensive items on the menu in any Mexican restaurants we'd been to.

It's a tomato-based soup (red anyway) and there were shrimps, fish (probably cod), squid, crab legs, oysters, scallops, chayote (squash, a vegetable), and potatoes. You could call it 8 treasures soup but there were only 6 mares (sea, meaning seafood). The broth was tasty and not too spicy for my liking. You could tell it's been cooking long time since the chayote pieces were nice and soft. It's quite a big bowl, full of broth and we had 4 corn tortillas to eat with. $7.99 wasn't bad, I guess. We also had a fish taco, which was ordinary.

The 7 Mares soup we had in Ensenada was from a little eatery not intending on getting any business from tourists. A small bowl for 55 pesos (we were charged for $5.5 dollars), full of seafood, including mussels, truly 7 mares without vegetables. Frankly I don't remember if there were any vegetables in the soup. We had chopped onions and cilantro for soup toppings, and also plenty (huge) chips and salsa. It was wonderful!

I know we will be looking for the best 7 Mares in SD.


Note:

u (Spanish) or, used instead of "o" before o-, ho-
Example: siete u ocho / seven or eight