Mi Tierra Super Taco — Restaurant in National City

Mi Tierra is a Jalisco-style Mexican food restaurant on a stretch of Highland Avenue in National City that is one of the region's most popular clusters of Mexican restaurants, including Tacos El G, Salud, Karina's Mexican Seafood, Gorditas Don Andres, and even Roberto's Numero Uno (their flagship restaurant). I initially found myself at Mi Tierra out of curiosity, having passed by it so many times to get to these other places.

The "Crunchy Beef Taco" I got was not great. To me, it resembled a "grown-up" version of a Jack in the Box taco. It had similar textures with shredded cheese and lettuce, and obviously beef with a similar chili powder flavor. I did not care for the harsh liver-y flavor of the beef, which I suspect to be a sourcing issue rather than a prep issue. That said, it can be masked with enough salsa roja, so it wasn't a deal-breaker to me completing the taco.

Mi Tierra's "Gorditas" are what to order here. I had one stuffed with "Chicharrón en Salsa Verde," and another filled with "Carne Asada." The chicharrón version was the better option by a mile, but that's not saying much due to the carne asada being bland and playing a background role due to being smothered out by a bunch of lettuce and queso fresco. Ask for them to not pile that stuff into your gordita and thank me later. The house-made masa gordita shells are not as thick and refined as what is used with the gorditas sold next door at Don Andres, but they are nonetheless tasty. After eating at both places a few times, I prefer the restaurant next door, as they've never let me down, whereas my satisfaction with Mi Tierra's food seem to be heavily dependent on...

This is a small taco shop that offers a small but flavorful menu to pick from. The prices are good for the portions and flavors.

I ordered 3 tacos and a basket of tortilla chips. Adobada, Carne Asada, and Cabeza

Drinks

• Various Mexican sodas • No Beer

Corn Tortillas

• Tortillas are hand made in house and have a good thickness to hold the juicy meats and fillings.

• Tortillas Chips are store bought tortillas that they deep fry themselves.

Meats

• Cabeza was very tender with a fatty marrow texture to it. It was good with the sauces but on its own could use some salt or seasoning to enhance the flavor of the meat.

with Cilantro 🌿 & Onions 🧅

• Adobada On its own was good, tender, full of flavor and not dry. This was the best of the three.

with Guac 🥑 Cilantro 🌿 & Onions 🧅

• Carne Asada was good. TJ style for sure. On its own felt dry compared to the others but the meat was good and had a crispness it it.

with Guac 🥑 Cilantro 🌿 & Onions 🧅

Sauces

• Red has a good smoky flavor and a mild spicy kick. It had good flavor and I ate this mostly with the chips instead of the Borracho salsa.

• Green has a good tomatillo flavor and blended well together. Very well made. I prefer a spicy sauce but kept eating this one with the chips too.

• The Borrcho Salsa for the chips I’m not a fan of. It has a certain flavor to it that I can’t get use to.. but it looks good and it’s chunky.

Overall I enjoyed the meal and will return again to try their...

I was looking for a place to buy menudo at 7:45am. This place came up with great reviews for there menudo so I had to try, specially being sick I wanted something warm and wholesome. I ordered 2 menudo one with only broth and hominy. The second come with hominy and meat, when I got home to eat both menudo were so bland I hand to re-boil them and add seasoning. My menudo only had meat and no hominy! The red salsas I got were expired and were bubbling. The only thing I ate literally was the tortillas with were great, so I feel like I just threw away 28 dlls and can't even go back because they probably don't care. If you go there please don't get menudo, unless you don't care about flavor. Maybe this place has other good dishes, but this one is just...