Since 2004, El Toro Grill Taqueria in College Area, San Diego, has served handmade tortillas and traditional antojitos from a full-service kitchen at 4491 El Cajon Blvd, CA 92115. The handmade-tortilla program sets the kitchen apart from the pre-packaged tortilla operations at most counter-serve taco shops — corn masa is pressed and griddled to order for tacos, and flour tortillas are rolled fresh for burritos and quesadillas. Pozole and menudo anchor the soup menu, and the caldo de res delivers a slow-simmered beef broth loaded with vegetables that reflects the traditional Sunday-morning soup tradition in Mexican home kitchens. El Cajon Blvd through College Area carries the best Mexican food in San Diego's eastern corridor, and El Toro sits within the same stretch of international dining that includes Alforon Mediterranean and a dense cluster of Vietnamese, Thai, and Latin American kitchens. Fish tacos arrive on doubled corn tortillas with shredded cabbage, pico, and a white crema sauce, and the birria tacos fold slow-braised beef into cheese-crusted tortillas served with a consomme for dipping. A bar onsite stocks Mexican beer and cocktails, and the late-night kitchen — running until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays — draws the College Area crowd that wants best tacos in San Diego after the evening bars empty out. Breakfast plates and breakfast burritos launch in the morning with chilaquiles, machaca, and standard egg-and-meat builds, and the aguas frescas are made in-house from fresh fruit rather than concentrate. SDSU sits roughly two miles east, and the 92115 ZIP places the restaurant within the commuter corridor that runs between campus and the western edge of College Area. The Scrimshaw Coffee crowd and other College Area morning regulars pivot to El Toro for a sit-down lunch once the caffeine wears off, giving the kitchen a split between breakfast-burrito traffic and mid-afternoon taco orders. Chimichanga, enchilada, and torta builds round out a menu that runs deeper than the standard taco-shop lineup, and the catering program handles large orders for campus events and neighborhood gatherings.