True!! I think the only time I had a bad burrito was when the beans were undercooked. I just excised those crunchy turds with a spoon and the burrito was perfectly serviceable.
You have to be high to want to eat burritos in vegas. I haven't yet find a burritos place that can compete with LA's street taco trucks. Throw down your favorite burritos places to proof me wrong!
As someone from the San Diego area, I would hit up Roberto's religiously, especially in high school since we had a location in front of our school. This was back when you could get a huge carne asada burrito for $2.50 - $3 if you wanted cheese to go with the guac and pico it normally came with. Sadly, those days, and those prices, are a thing of the past.
The best burrito of all time is an Allsup's fried Burrito from Southeast New Mexico, specifically Hobbs or Roswell. Second best ever would be any burrito with Hatch Green Chile in it. Thirdly would be the Carne Adovada burrito from Frontier or Blake's Lotaburger in ABQ. The land of enchantment, we do green chile.
Then you must try the "Burrito de Chile Relleno" from Chihuahua State. It's a burrito made from an egg-batter fried Hatch Green Chile, which has been filled with cheese (and therefore called relleno). If you don't want to cross the border, famous food-chain Crisostomo has restaurants open in El Paso TX.
When I relocated from San Diego to Oregon, I was very amused to see my local "Robertos-esque" taco shop sporting an "Oregon burrito!" LOL it was in fact a California burrito, with the french fries and all the rest. Shop makes decent carne asada fries too. 🙂
Hands down the best burrito in the USA is found at La Taqueria in San Francisco, on Mission St@25th No rice, juicy, excellent salsa verde on the tables! I usually order a half/half, carnitas/chorizo. It’s not on the menu board. Another fave burrito is found at Rosa Maria’s in San Bernardino. I first ate there in 1976. Forty years later I returned and the burrito I ate in 2016 was the same as the burrito I ate in 1976…and that’s a good thing!
This made me hungry! Also being from San Diego and frequenting many fast Mexican food places, you missed my favorite. The shredded beef burrito. Just slow cooked chuck, shredded, and cooked with onion and pepper strips. Maybe some tomato. Its reasonably healthy and so good!!
Burrito King in Los Angeles, chili relleno burrito. Just refried beans and a delicious freshly deep-fried chili relleno. Damn! There used to be a joint in Highland Park called Ensenada's Place that had the shrimp burrito. Spicy Mexican rice, chopped tomato, shredded cabbage, a LARGE deep-fried shrimp smothered in crema.
My favorite breakfast burrito is out of New Mexico at a place called Blakes Lotta Burger... You can get the different types of meat bacon, sausage, etc... However, my favorite ingredient is shredded/crispy hashbrown. Egg, bacon, and crispy hashbrowns...
My favorite is the burrio supreme. It is a chimichonga smothered in chilli, cheese, and topped with lettus, tomatoes, onions, olives, sour cream and guacamole if you want it
WHF! thank you for all of these videos. they're perfect to watch/listen while i cook, while i think about eating, while i eat, while i ignore my other responsibilities, and while i'm just looking for something entertaining.
i had to do some additional search; that "vulgar connotation" for the chimichanga is the "changa" part. just replace the first "A" with an "I", put it thru a translator, and you'll get your answer.
You forgot the Jewish Burrito. Since we can’t have leavened bread during Passover, we will use tortillas since they are naturally unleveled (has no yeast) As a replacement for many bread dishes. Our burritos typical use left over Brisket from the Seder meal the night before, with onions and potato.
i understand that these food items were popularized commercially as the basis of their 'invention' but i can't help but think how many people were crafting these burritos before they became popular and thought "hey i invented that!" :)
As a former Angelo there are possible apocryphal stories about the origin about the LA Burrito and the California Burritos The LA burrito was from the large Mexican-American population, who were often poor, used those ingredients because they're wasn't money for meat all the time. California burrito supposedly came from food trucks feeding Mexican American workers.
You missed the French Tacos! Yes, Tacos with an S although it clearly is a variant on a Burrito. Think Shawarma with Fries, and cheese sauce wrapped in a flour tortilla and sealed shut on a panini press. Its history is very recent and interesting. I encourage you look into it. :)
Totally agree with you! The fact that it is in a flour tortilla, a hearty amount of gooey cheese sauce and a wide variety in it’s fillings, however distinguishes it from the two names you enumerated. It really does blur a line for me and I believe that I am not the only one who’s confused about it all. Ever since its inception people have been trying to name what is commonly known as a French Tacos. Matelas which translates to « Mattress » is sometimes used to refer to it. I’ve also heard people refer to it as a kebab burrito colloquially or a Taco Wrap. After all when you look at the cooking method of a good al pastor or carnitas, you will often encounter the big rotating kebab style skewers; so who’s to say what is what, and what isn’t what anyways!
Instantly drooling and forming my lunch plans. Roberto's taco shop is amazing. Was introduced to it (and it's Carne Asada fries) in Las Vegas by a friend. It's a must-stop in Vegas!
Such a cool video, we have massive taco trucks out here in CA, like the carna sada with whole beans, rice, salsa, guac, sour cream, boom its on. Oh dont forget the chips.
I live walking distance from a Filiberto's thats open 24 hours. Nothing hits better at 2am after some drinks than a California burrito. I'll usually already be halfway through the burrito by the time I get back home. Pure bliss.
A meat market in my hometown sells Turkey breast sold in slices half inch thick. Those cut into strips and seasoned with spicy taco/fajita seasoning, sour cream, pineapple 🍍 salsa and Monterey Jack cheese is my signature recipe
You guys missed the Ohio Burrito. It is so popular that it was on local Taco Bell secret menus for years before becoming a regular menu item called the Chili Cheese Burrito. The basic burrito is a northern sweet chili (beef and bean) with shredded cheddar and sour cream. But to make it truly Ohio, add fried, diced potatoes, lettuce and guacamole and fry it. So good.
In short, the development of the burrito had influences on both sides of the US Mexican border. It's not a coincidence that burritos from northern Mexico nowadays resemble them counterparts in the southwestern USA.
i totally love the california burrito!! when i was livin down in La Jolla in San Diego i would always get a burrito and go down to the beach before i go surfin!!! 🤙🏽
Recently I've seen a few places selling "burgeritos". The idea is simple: take all the ingredients of a cheeseburger, including ground beef, American cheese, lettuce, diced tomatoes and onions, and put them in a tortilla instead of on a bun
Best burrito I’ve ever had so far is in Chico, Ca. Off esplanade. A place called Tacos El Pinolero. A food truck. Get the Carne Asada. I haven’t found a burrito yet that can beat it. Buy 2. Take 1 home with you for later.
Chicken, mashed potato, and corn burrito at a basement cafe at a building I worked at in Century City - the Friday special. You could get salsa AND gravy.
Pizza, burritos and sandwiches are the three greatest foods ever created. Being from Las Vegas I have been eating Roberto's basicallymy entire life. They're the Mexican in n out in the southwest. It's mostly known as the "drunk stop" to grab food at the end of the night, but it's not bad any time of the day or level of inebriation.
Filiberto's in the Phoenix-area has the greatest burritos on the planet. I love their Arizona burrito with beef and potatoes. And their salsa bar is amazing.
My favorite style? Yes. Mission/carne asada are pretty much at the top though, being that almost every other burrito style can be incorporated into one.
No Christmas Style burrito? I guess it's technically a derivative of the adobo burrito in the wet style, but it's a specific enough variant I'm surprised it didn't at least get a shoutout here.
Christmas style is just an expression describing green AND red salsa on top at the same time. That’s not really a regional thing- people do that everywhere.
Growing up I loved me some (don't panic it's what my mom was buying) Amy's organic vegetarian chili burritos with pepper jack cheese. I was the only one in the house to make those but they were so good, still good with the run of the mill meat based chili's but not quite as good as those vegetarian chili flavors for the burrito.
Double wrapped. Not sure if that qualifies as a style but it certainly qualifies as a feast, entire day's calories (or more) in one snugly swaddled package.
Quesarito. They started serving it when the secret menu item at Chipotle was popular but Chipotle employees didn't want to make it. I believe Sheetz jumped on before Taco Bell put out their version of the same thing.
I grew up getting a huge type of burrito called a Poncho Villa Burrito, it was definitely for when you were very hungry and come with beef, chicken or pork or a mixture for the protein.
You forgot about the mexican hamburger. Which is a staple in Denver, CO. A burrito with a cooked hamburger patty, beans and cheese on the inside. Smothered in green chili sauce topped with shredded iceberg lettuce, tomato and sour cream.
I didn’t realize how spoiled I was until moving to Florida. I grew up in Vista, California, and had the best Mexican food readily available nearly 24/7… God how I miss a shrimp burrito done right!! Or there was this place in Oceanside, off the 78 and College Blvd., where the kholes and petsmart are across the street, and the Home Depot is up the hill; they made this like supreme quesadilla that was to die for! I can’t remember the name of that place, don’t even know if it’s still there, but lord those were good times 😊
My favorites are the Mission Style, Which I grew up on and can for certain place its origin at El Faro, I had one there in 1968 and the Chimichanga, Which shouldn't be eaten outside of Tucson, There is just something special about how the make them there, Shredded dried beef ones are the bomb! The third is a New Mexico Breakfast burrito with Christmas sauce. I let a New Mexican explain that.
So i lived in Ca for 25 years and what this guy calls the Mission Style we called a ranchero burrito. What he calls a California burrito ( with fries) we called a mission style. Ive had literally 100's of these in the Mission District in SF.
I have lived in California for 54 years and there is a reason it's called a mission burrito. California burritos have fries and they are from San Diego. Get your shit straight.
Excellent that you called it as you said it was a nickname for a taco. A taco was anything wrapped in a tortilla (maise o harina) The little taco carts pulled by a burrito in Juarez is where it comes from.
When I lived in San Diego, I massively enjoyed all the Roberto's shops as well as their many copycats. It cracked me up that so many of the copycats would choose names ending in -berto - I suppose they originally may have meant to imply they were part of the original chain, but they were often just as good as the originals so it was all fine by me! All my friends and I would just refer to the shops en masse as "Bertos" 🙂
I wish I could find more local mission style burrito places near me, it's almost entirely "wet" burritos here. I remember when Chipotle first became super popular was when I even became aware of the fact that "not wet" burritos were a thing.
My favorite burrito is the chimichanga. FRY IT! Otherwise, I'd go with carne asada. Not a fan of the California burrito.French fries have no place in the burrito IMO.
What, no Kosher Burrito? Pickles, Mustard, and deli meats in a tortilla -- famously served by a Korean-American guy called John who owns a burger joint in LA's Little Tokyo. It doesn't get any more American than that!
Not a burrito, but I love BBQ places that serve hot tortillas instead of bread. Using strips of tortilla to eat chopped lamb was my favorite thing to eat in college.
I like the quick one I make at home. Can be sliced chicken nugget or kiev served with salad and topped with chilli and garlic sauce. Or just a chilli sauce of some kind will do. So easy to make.
I live in California but I have never heard of or even seen a "California Burrito" in all of my life I think that's more of a burrito that is a widely sold across the United States or that I just don't really see it very often.
