Experience the best of Rosarito

Rosarito stretches along the Pacific coast of Baja California, south of Tijuana and the US border, with a long sandy beach, a pier and a strip of cafés and shops. The Rosarito Beach Hotel, opened in the 1920s, made it a favourite of Hollywood stars during Prohibition, and the town has been a weekend resort for Californians ever since.

A film studio built for the 1997 movie Titanic stands on the coast south of town. Puerto Nuevo, a lobster village a short drive further south, serves Baja-style lobster fried or grilled and brought with rice, beans and tortillas, a tradition that began in the 1950s. The wineries of the Valle de Guadalupe and the port city of Ensenada lie further south still.

Fish tacos with cabbage and white sauce, grilled shrimp and Baja Med cooking, which blends Mexican produce with Mediterranean technique, fill the restaurants. A marine layer of cloud often covers the coast in late spring, and the beaches are sunniest from summer into autumn.