New restaurant report- last night at.....

A Californian named Dennis Doyle has taken over the old El Candela spot near Jungle Pizza on La Ropa road. Dennis had a catering business for 25 years in San Diego and had all his kitchen set-up shipped down from there. Until more folks arrive he's open Friday-Sunday for dinners only.

We both made dinner from the appetizer menu with fish tacos. He does them "Baja" style meaning the fish is battered and fried but the corn tortilla is warmed and not fried like so many places here. With the fish is cilantro, onion and tomato + any salsa of course. As far as I know after three years of research, only Los Braseros in El Centro and Manzanillo Bay Inn at Tronconies does fish tacos Baja style-

You can't tell by the photo but he uses a much smaller sized tortilla than standard size so I could easily put down 5 (@$18/each). They are killer good and I hope he takes them off the appetizer list and serves them three at a time in regular tortillas. I could have gobbled up several more if it weren't for the two "on-the-house" surprises- a shrimp treat....

and a tasty little salad-

He developed a 'taco jig' for fast assembly so food was quick, and his two waiters are VERY attentive so table service is about the best I've ever seen it.

And nothing fancy here- it's a "no frills" kind of a place as you can see-

Dennis has about every brand of Mexican beer there is and thankfully NO Bud that seems to be creeping into some places + plus a full bar-

He says his plan is to try different things to see what hits. He said Wednesday Night Poker will start soon.

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ZIHUATANEJO- A QUAINT LITTLE DRINKING VILLAGE WITH A FISHING PROBLEM.