The Burrito Shop

A straightforward name for a straightforward place. The Burrito Shop is cheap. Unless otherwise noted, the burritos I blog will be in the $6-7 range. This one was $4.89 after tax. Even though it's on a route I traverse often (this was the 5359 College Ave location, they have two others), I don't go to The Burrito Shop often due to bad associations. At one point, I was low on cash. I had overdrawn and didn't notice the minus signs in front of the numbers that kept showing up on my ATM receipts, even though the absolute values of those numbers kept increasing until the bank spazzed out and cut me off. Long story short, I was living off of coins. At the time, they had a $1.69 bean & cheese burrito and I had more than a few. Now it's $2.50, but no worries -- I can afford the carnitas burrito now!





















They assembled my burrito in the time it took me to procure a seat outside and two cups of salsa. The salsas were actually pretty good. The salsa rojo was sweet and zesty and forced me to triple-dip the first chip I used. I never like salsa verde, but I can at least tell that this one was decent. The chips themselves were weak. I know The Burrito Shop is inexpensive, but how much can they really save by skimping on something made of corn, oil and salt? Chips and salsa aside, there's a burrito to blog!
























I'm getting better at slicing the burrito for these shots, even though I still got some little bits of aluminum foil into it. Let's start with the meat. The meat was uniformly soft and moist. It almost melts in your mouth. I tried to crush a piece against the roof of my mouth with my tongue. It didn't work, but the fact that it was worth a try gives you an idea of how soft it is. The pork was also a little picante! The rest of the inside of the burrito was pretty standard. The tortilla was a weak spot, as you can see below.
























Horrible photography (my fault; I have a new camera and no plans to read the manual) aside, you can see a tear, a forseeable result of combining a weak tortilla with juicy juicy carnitas. A tear like that is often an omen of burrito in one's lap's future. It didn't lead to a huge disaster this time, but be warned.