Chipotle sucks.

omg foodie lauren shows up

Those citations don't seem like the gross kind, really? I mean, how many times a day are you supposed to wash your utensils, when they sit in the pot of beans at a near-boil? And so delicious.

My problem with the Burritoville product was with general stuff like really starchy, tasteless rice, not specifically my variety of burrito. But I'll try again, sometime when it's less inconvenient.

SIGNS not posted? I'm hardly going to stop eating somewhere because their "International sign for choking" poster is missing.

hi cutty.

uh, PERSONAL CLEANLINESS INADEQUATE

and it says no utensil.. they were using their hands to scoop the beans out the pot

u do the maths

i wonder how taco places in mexico would do if inspected by nyc heath dept.

really starchy = short-grain, brown, i.e. healthy, even moreso w/ wheat tortilla. beans stewed in beer don't appeal to laurel?

my only problem is light on the acid, but that's easily solved w/ xtra pico de gallo and/or lemon (i reserve for beef)

Tacos made by white people "less skanky," say Williamsburg indierockers

Actually they have a spoon for the beans, but I've seen her use her hands to scoop up the servings of lettuce, tomato, and lime wedges that garnish the platters. I suppose it would be okay if she had plastic gloves on and changed them after every serving? But oh well.

Chipotle is finally coming to Des Moines. I am preparing to find housing closer to its proposed site.

This is all.

chipotle is good; i have burrito places i like better but if chipotle is my only option i'm perfectly okay with it. i appreciate that they keep it simple and don't try to trick it out baja fresh style.

I might just be a total slut for Mexican food, but given the choice of Chipotle, Baja Fresh, Qdoba, and any of the small local places, I'm good with all of the above (and probably go to each roughly once a month). I like Chipotle's burritos because they have that corn salsa and you can go heavy on cheese/guacamole, but the burritos are pretty much the only thing I like there and they're a little limited. If I want a quesadilla I'll go to Qdoba. And if I want to pig out and get a side of chips and a bunch of extra sauces & peppers I'll go to Baja Fresh. California Tortilla is kinda nice for the novelty of their different flavors, but I don't like them enough to go there unless someone else wants to. And of course there are pros and cons to local places but like Tombot said it's pointless to explain what those are on a message board full of people who mostly live far far away.

Cannot condone this place. Get something 94x better at 1/3 the price at a good taqueria. And even better, you don't have to go inside a Chipotle.

^^for realz

agreed, i love my neighborhood taqueria.

Guys the lamest place in America is WELCOME TO MOE'S - except! that they have fish tacos. They are pretty much the ONLY place here that serves fish tacos.

I am lucky to live 2 blocks away from a great little Mexican place called CIELITO LINDO that does a LUNCH BUFFET! Also there's this little taqueria down by the courthouse that I for some reason only go to after court dates/paying fines/etc. Which is a shame because it's excellent.

best mexi-fast food place I can think of is Rubio's but I think they're strictly Cali.

and their specialty is fish tacos

yeah I basically lived my entire life up to 6 months ago thinking fish tacos were gross on a conceptual level, before actually trying one and being SUPER into them now.

ha! My friend's cat is named after Rubio's...because of their fish tacos! Everyone just calls him Ru now though.

I had Burritoville recently and it was Not Good -- I mean, edible but srsly not a burrito I'd go out of my way for

I got banned from noize broads for saying this!

I think Baja Fresh is the best fast food mex chain in my area, but I think the nearest one to me closed down and I haven't even had reason to go to that one since I worked at Kaplan a while back and would pass it on the way home. There's a Qdoba in Hoboken, but there's a good taqueria walking distance from my place so that's pretty much where I get my fix.

don't go to B'ville for mexican food, I go for merkin-style burritos. my local offers actual corn tortillas for the merkin-style tacos, tho.

-- gabbneb, Monday, March 31, 2008 8:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

i can't decide if i'm impressed or disappointed that no one said anything about this

MERKIN STYLE TACOS guys come on

it's not even better than other huge mexican subway chains like moe's or qdoba

-- J0rdan S., Monday, March 31, 2008 8:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

ding ding ding

(except with the added "why does everyone but me think this place is so great?" wtf-annoyance factor)

every taco or burrito I ate in California, including random fast food ones >>>> Qdoba/Baja Fresh/Chipotle. Maybe I was just lucky.

I think maybe we need a 'your local taqueria/taco truck' thread.

the most average mexican place in CA would give those chains a run for their money

forget about any local favorites

Does El Pollo Loco exist anywhere besides Chicago and SoCal? It's pretty good.

(and Mexico obv.)

by "random fast food ones" I meant "random CA chain ones"

one of the many reasons I live in California.

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true,freakin taco bell is even better in california
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I haven't seen 'em (El Pollo Loco) for a while, but there used to be a few here in Austin.

oh man totally going to chipotle for lunch in 15

There's Pollo Loco in the Bay Area

looks like the only place pollo loco isn't is the mid-atlantic.

I don't get california dining. you guys have no crab cakes. fuck that noise. plus why so easy on the hot sauce? pussies.

one of my faves

In the phrase MERKIN STYLE TACOS it feels like "merkin" is a verb (synonym of accumulating) and "style tacos" is like some obscure fashion industry term for street cred.

Man, check out this guy with his crazy use of straps and leather...dude is MERKIN STYLE TACOS I'll tell you what.

I'm hungry.

but "merk"(/"murk"/"merc") already means something!

pube wig tacos

I don't get california dining. you guys have no crab cakes. fuck that noise.

dude there aren't as many crabs here. altho I do like crabcakes and eat them regularly. also hot sauce.

see hot sauce thread, I'm sure there's lots of Cali posters on there