Part of the pleasure and excitement of owning Baja Real Estate and visiting Baja is discovering great places to eat and sharing them with people who enjoy the same.
There is great cuisine at every level of dining. We enjoy telling you about the best street taco's we have found as much as the most elegant of dining experiences and the great food in the mid-range. By our definition… great food, the experience and the hospitality are what makes a restaurant a place you remember and want to share with friends.
For this post – I want to share with you a restaurant that few people would ever know exists – the food is so good, the hospitality so extraordinary and the experience so memorable that I hesitate to share the pearl with you for fear of them becoming popular and being unable to get a table! This restaurant has no more than four tables, a private chef, a diverse menu with local seafood, and meats to suit most preferences. They have an extraordinary wine list featuring wines from the nearby Guadalupe Valley, home of Baja's wine country.
This was our third visit to Casa Natalie, http://www.casanatalie.com/ a small boutique hotel with seven room on the way into Ensenada at about KM 103, which makes it 60 miles from the border, but a great place for dinner if you find yourself that far south… Ensenada is worth the trip. Here is the secret: If you call in advance, you can reserve a table unless the hotel has been "taken over" as certain groups occasionally do - including Hollywood celebrities.
My wife and I recently entertained another couple there. We all had appetizers and a main course and split a desert - we shared a bottle of Adobe wine (excellent), drank a couple of mixed drinks and three additional glasses of wine. They pour Casa de Piedra vino tinto as their house red (Awesome – a flavor blast). We were there for two glorious hours, our private chef prepared every meal to perfection, the service was very good and all thoroughly enjoyed the evening and look forward to returning. The check was $275.00 – pricey but an extraordinary value for the money as the check would have been nearly double in Southern California. Our friends, who I would consider gourmets and wine experts, with a European perspective, were delighted and impressed –as you will be.
Other blogs: http://bajaswines.blogspot.com/ All about Baja Wine
and http://ownbaja.blogspot.com/ All about owning Real Estate in Baja
Robert Donnell http://www.elmilagrobaja.com/
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Casa Natalie is a fantastic hotel & restaurant. You would never guess it from the outside, but once inside the gates you understand why it is a favorite of for the upscale locals and also for Hollywood's famous couple Actress Sandra Bullock & Jesse James from West Coast Choppers and the reality TV show Monster Garage on the Discovery Channel. In 2008, Jesse James will have a new show called Metal Church on Spike TV. My husband & I saw all of the West Coast Chopper Trucks at Casa Natalie and while we had dinner the chef confirmed that Sandra Bullock, Jesse James and their friends were all staying their while in town for the Baja 500 events. We look forward to visiting this restaurant for the fabulous food for many years to come. Plus, who knows which Hollywood stars you might run into in Ensenada, Mexico at Casa Natalie!
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