-pacificsandiego.com. ¡Viva Tijuana! is a multi-story series about the life and culture of San Diego's modern neighbor to the south. PACIFIC's San Diego craft beer column heads south of the border for a momentito. ¡Salud!

-Munchies. You might say that it's Cantonese cuisine mixed with Southwestern flavors. There's avocado and chorizo in the fried rice. Mango alongside saucy beef strips. Arrachera (skirt steak) lays on a bed of snap peas covered in Chinese-style bean sauce.

-New York Times. It’s a wine country unlike any I’ve come across. Start with the fact that in these parched environs, only splashes of vines are visible from the highway. Nowadays grapes grow in all sorts of places, but how they came to the valley is a peculiar tale.

-Los Angeles Times. A foodie road trip to Tijuana? On a recent foray, my husband, Paul, and I ventured beyond the tchotchke shops, discount pharmacies and street-corner “zonkeys,” donkeys painted to look like zebras.

-México Desconocdo. En medio de los inmensos campos de uva del Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, yace escondido un restaurante que prepara todo lo irresistible de la vida: papada de cerdo, ostiones kumiai, tiradito de jurel o toda una variedad de cortes de res, y mucho más.

-New York Times. Tijuana también vive un renacimiento culinario impulsado por cervecerías artesanales, cafeterías elegantes y restaurantes internacionales que van desde los “food trucks” de Telefónica Gastro Park hasta lugares bullicios de cocina Baja Med como La Querencia, en el vecindario Zona Río.

-mexiconewsdaily.com. Los Algodones receives over 100,000 medical tourists a year. The population of the small border town of Los Algodones, Baja California, is now seeing its annual seasonal increase, as are many Mexican destinations. The difference here is that the visitors come for medical reasons.

-vogue.com. Excellent street food, pristine beaches, a buzzy museum scene—Mexico is known for many things, but wine isn’t necessarily one of them. That’s quickly changing thanks to Valle de Guadalupe, the country’s wine region located in the northern Baja peninsula and just two hours by car from San Diego.

-independent.co.uk. This sprawling city nudging the US border is making a name for itself as a hotspot of Baja Med fusion cuisine and craft breweries