Mustangs & Burros in La Jolla introduces patio menu for the summer

Items from the new menu at Mustangs & Burros at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa.

June 9, 2021 9 AM PT

Mustangs & Burros, the Baja-inspired patio restaurant at the Estancia La Jolla Hotel & Spa, has introduced a new food and cocktail menu for the summer.

Dishes include barbacoa sopas, shrimp agua chile verde, Prime tomahawk chop with chimichurri, crispy skin salmon, duck carnitas and birria de res and conchinita. New cocktails include the tropical Common Sense, the vodka-based Watermelon Sugar Fire and mezcal-based 5-Star Review.

Mustangs & Burros is at 9700 N. Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla. Visit meritagecollection.com/estancia-la-jolla/dining.

Kragen writes about local restaurants for The San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in Waterf, Conn.