On Chula Vista's Main Street, Santa Fe Meats Mercado combines a full-service butcher counter, a grocery section, and a taqueria under one roof, offering trilingual service in English, Spanish, and Arabic. The carnicería breaks down whole primals into custom-thickness steaks, beef sweetbreads, and house-marinated carne asada with a multi-generational adobo recipe — a protein-specialist depth positioned alongside the whole-fish and shellfish processing at T & M Seafood on the south side of the city. The attached taqueria serves plates of birria, menudo, and chile rellenos from the same kitchen that fills catering trays for private events. The butcher's marinate-and-grill format — carne asada, pollo asado, and pork adobada seasoned and packaged to go — targets the same charcoal-cookout customer base that fills tables for Korean barbecue at Manna BBQ in Eastlake. The top-volume cut is carne asada marinated in-house and sold by the pound, processed from USDA-inspected whole rounds that the butcher team breaks down, trims, and cross-hatches for even heat distribution on residential and commercial flat-top grills.