The holidays are drawing nearer, so of course you’re craving food from home — but there’s life beyond the turkey. We’re talking sketchy street food served out of a rickety cart posted in front of your favorite hometown dive bar. We’re talking BWHDs (bacon-wrapped hot dogs), affectionately known as bacon dogs in the Bay or alley dogs in LA.

San Diegans call them TJ dogs. For a decidedly less questionable version than you’d get from your go-to roadside vendor, look no further than the Lucha Libre Gourmet Taco Shop in Mission Hills.

Perched on a steep Washington St. slope, Lucha Libre claims to use only fresh ingredients and top-quality meats (guess, that’s what makes them “gourmet.”) Libre’s take on the TJ dog — a frank wrapped in bacon, onions and a medley of sauces — will more than remedy even the most severe case of munchies.

So will the rest of the menu, populated by both taco-shop usuals and non-traditions like the chipotle-smothered “loaded baked potato.” Try a “queso taco”: two tortillas covered in a crunchy layer of cheese, avocado slices, special sauce and either steak, chicken or fries. And spice it up with Libre’s ever-changing rotation of salsas, limited-edition creations by owners/brothers Diego and Jose Luis Rojano. Highlights have included a bold beer-flavored salsa for San Diego Beer Week and an apple-flavored hot sauce.

Turns out, gourmet tacos and burritos taste that much better atop zebra-printed bar stools beneath a TV blaring Mexican wrestling. Photos, masks and autographs in kitschy gold frames complement the shop’s hot-pink walls, illuminated by a spinning disco ball. Call 24 hours in advance to reserve the roped-off “champion’s booth” lined top to bottom in gold — the staff will even don the Lucha Libre masks hanging on the walls as they serve you “tap out tacos,” “smackdown quesadillas” on porcelain plates and horchata in gold-trimmed pimp cups.

Open until 2:30 a.m. on weekends, Libre’s in-your-face gusto will make it your favorite post-bar pitstop. And with Bar Dynamite (a small club beloved by house and old-school hip-hop heads) next door, along with a liquor shop two storefronts down, it makes a convenient cap to a night out in Mission Hills. If you’re coming from the Gaslamp Quarter, ask your designated driver to exit the I-5 on Sassafras and get in the ring with some kickin’ Mexican cuisine.