A local birria specialist opened its second restaurant in the Midway District. Mike’s Red Tacos threw its doors open at 3365 Rosecrans Street Suite D. The eatery was born out of owner Mike Touma’s passion for birria; a native San Diegan, Touma went on a personal eating quest on both sides of the border in preparation to launch his birria-focused food truck back in 2021.
A Clairemont area storefront followed in 2022, and now Mike and his wife Leona just unveiled their new 2,100-square-foot Rosecrans Street restaurant in the Loma Square shopping center.
The menu features classic tacos, built on chili oil-dipped tortillas that are crisped on the flat top, but the slow-simmered beef also tops ramen and loaded nachos and is stuffed into California burritos and quesadillas. A signature item is its “CrunchStack”, a birria-filled play on Taco Bell’s famous Crunchwrap.
Open daily at 11 a.m., the Midway District restaurant will operate until midnight on weekends; this location also plans to serve beer, micheladas, and hard seltzers. Touma is currently in talks for more locations, so look for Mike’s Red Tacos to blanket San Diego in birria.
Mike’s Red Tacos
3365 Rosecrans Street Suite D, San Diego, CA 92110
Edited for clarification and update from Eater San Diego by Candice Woo.
Sounds real healthy, a grease filled tortilla fried in it’s own saturated fat, filled with fat saturated meat.
No thanks, I will stick to my goto OB Peoples Market.