Sawaya Brother's Jr. #2

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About

Sawaya Brother's Jr. #2 on Chula Vista's Broadway corridor operates as a full-service carnicería and grocery market, anchored by a tortillería producing fresh corn tortillas throughout the day. The meat counter cuts custom steak portions and prepares marinated carne asada alongside a produce section stocked with chiles, tomatillos, and avocados, building a specialty-grocery format distinct from the full-scale supermarket model at Carnival Supermarket on Broadway. The store is part of a multi-location family operation with additional branches on upper Broadway and South 30th Street in San Diego, all sharing the same tortillería and carnicería emphasis. SNAP/EBT acceptance and a 100-out-of-100 health-inspection score from the San Diego County Department of Environmental Health reinforce the market's grocery fundamentals, the same food-safety threshold required of La Concha Bakery and other prepared-food establishments across the Chula Vista corridor. The in-house tortillería runs a commercial-grade masa grinder and heated-press system producing nixtamalized corn tortillas from whole-kernel maize, yielding a texture and mineral profile distinct from pre-packaged shelf-stable alternatives.