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The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)
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- mushufasa 5y agoin seriousness, I'm hoping people will comment here with the best places to get a mission burrito in NYC
- dnautics 5y agowhat I really want to know is the best place to get a san diego burrito in SF. Key differentiators: - no fillers (no rice, no beans; beans acceptable in breakfast burritos) - generous portions of meats - chicken that is finished by grilling on the grill, not ropa-style pulled straight out of a dewey plastic bin - wrap that is toasted - wax paper wrap instead of foil (lets the burrito breathe instead of becoming damp and gooey). Also avoids the danger of accidentally biting into the foil and getting that delicious aluminium flavor. - salsa roja cremosa
- pvg 5y agoI think just about all of these are achievable except for the wax paper on which it's probably simplest to just recognize they are doing it wrong in San Diego.
- dnautics 5y agoWhy is wax paper wrong? The only possible advantage to foil is that if you don't eat it all it's marginally easier to take home. As for the other criteria. You say it's achievable but I challenge you to find a place in SF. I seriously was on a four year quest to find such a place. There are a few places that come close on like two or three criteria - EBX on divis and chandos in... Sacramento, come close, (except for the foil, which is universal), but otherwise it's just not as good.
- pvg 5y agoWhy is wax paper wrong? If you have to ask, etc... Somewhat more seriously, I think an aspect of California food is that it's highly regional and it ends up being a bit of a fool's errand expecting it to be replicated precisely out-of-region. It's bizarre you can't get a structurally integral burrito south of San Jose, never mind Weehawken, and I'm equally bewildered, as an adoptive Northern Californian, that foil could possibly be such a point of contention. The only possible advantage to foil is that if you don't eat it all it's marginally easier to take home. I can only assume that San Diegans take their burritos home far too sober. Surely that can't be true. We have to get to the bottom of this.
- djcapelis 5y agoYes please. I grew up in and came back to Northern California but San Diego has better Mexican food and we don’t talk about it enough. I uncharitably claim that San Francisco seems to have a reputation for awesome Mexican food more from visitors from New York and other places outside the state who don’t know better. I miss midnight burritos from Cotixan’s something fierce. I haven’t found anything comparable up here since moving back, after years of trying. I have resigned myself to an admittedly still solid mission style burrito or just sneaking over to the taco side of the menu to bypass the burrito feelings. Don’t get me wrong, there’s some good places up here for other aspects of Mexican and Mexican adjacent food, but I dearly miss San Diego style burritos and haven’t found a replacement.
- dnautics 5y agoDon't know how long it's been since you were there but IMO vallarta's across the street from coti has basically surpassed coti's. I would say it's like 25% better.
- acchow 5y ago“No fillers” Go for the real thing - tacos. Forget burritos. They’re universally subpar.
- staticautomatic 5y agoI felt that way until I experienced a super fresh flour tortilla the first time.
- selimthegrim 5y agoCan I bribe some enterprising Peruvians with a chicken shop into making one of these for me?
- matthewn 5y agoHello, kindred spirit. I grew up in San Diego but have lived in the Bay for almost 30 years. I still can't enjoy a Mission-style burrito. You've articulated the key reasons why. The answer to your question is, you can't get what you're looking for in SF, but if you're willing to drive for nearly an hour, you will find the burrito of your dreams at Adalberto's in Fairfield.
- djcapelis 5y agoThank you for recommending Adalberto's! It was a bit of a drive but indeed, it is the closest I’ve found!
- a-dub 5y agomore of a taco guy, but... calexico, dos toros, oaxaca the morelos empire: 2nd and a, north 6 and bedford, grand and graham (edit: they had/have a storefront in the east village, don't remember where now but near superiority burger i believe) also there's supposedly some legit birria trucks about, but i have not tried them. and, i don't know if anyone closed due to the pandemic.
- swivelmaster 5y agoGood to see Dos Toros on the list, I know one of the founders. Used to play shows with his band in the Bay Area in the early 2000s!
- a-dub 5y agoLOL for the uninitiated: dos toros was started by the (bassist?) of third eye blind. it was modeled after the classic sf taqueria gordo. some of the shops have pictures of gordo on the wall. what band did you play in?
- swivelmaster 5y agoHah! So the bassist was only a touring bassist for Third Eye Blind after the dissolution of his original band, the criminally underrated "The KGB," (not to be confused with the likely hundred other bands with the same name) which is how I knew him. I played in a basically unknown Bay Area band called Red Lantern.
- ericbarrett 5y agoDos Toros burritos are not great (though to be fair you said tacos), I wish people would stop recommending it. I spent years looking for a good Mission burrito in New York City, and never found it. Lots of good food, but every burrito was Tex-Mex or San Diego style or some such. Also, I never found a place with real al pastor; it was always grilled.
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- dTal 5y agoMeta question, apologies: I submitted this exact link 20 days ago, and I've noticed several other precisely duplicate submissions recently. Meanwhile, sometimes I go to submit a link and I'm not allowed because there was a previous submission almost a year(!) ago. Just what the heck are the rules here?
- floatingatoll 5y agoEmail the mods and ask this question. They won’t see it here and they’d take the time to consider and reply if you did.
- cup_of_joe 5y agoIf anyone is looking to pair up on a burrito-ranking site for NYC, please reach out. Have been working on a side project for it and would love a partner to build with. I already have the domain name for it (nycburritos.com)
- walrus01 5y agoIf you do this, maybe make something like the guy who ate every slice of pizza in manhattan? https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbx3vv/this-man-ate-every-slice-of-pizza-in-manhattan https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbx3vv/this-man-ate-every-sl... http://www.sliceharvester.com/ http://www.sliceharvester.com/ other good domain names available: burrito.is burrito.inc burrito. burrito.engineering burrito.guru burrito.center burrito.services burrito.technology burrito.reviews burrito.catering burrito.services burrito.supply burrito.builders burrito.zone
- belinder 5y agoCan't find a way to sort the slice ranking... what's the best slice?!
- cup_of_joe 5y agoWhile personally trying every burrito is quite a compelling thought, I was actually thinking of making it more of a crowdsourced effort, where people can submit ratings. Kinda like a hyper-focused version of yelp.
- rajbot 5y agoSee also Burrito Eater, who ate and reviewed 1000 burritos in SF: https://burritoeater.com/faq.php https://burritoeater.com/faq.php
- klyrs 5y agoSadly, there's nothing at burri.to but the name is taken
- panelVW 5y agoP
- bsder 5y agoMore importantly, where do I get a breakfast taco in California? The fact that my pre-Covid early morning business trips from Austin to San Diego used to have me delivering a boatload of breakfast tacos from the Austin airport shows that there is an untapped market.
- hadlock 5y ago> delivering a boatload of breakfast tacos from the Austin airport Ah yes, the lesser-known cousin of the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel, the Austin-Bergstrom Breakfast Taco Canal
- bsder 5y agoActually, it was mostly the Austin-San Jose Salt Lick Loop. :) When we did some work for 3DO, the 3DO guys always had to come back to San Jose with something like 20 pounds of Salt Lick brisket that they would put in carry on. I can't imagine what you had to do to clean that smell out of the overhead compartments.
- mikeyk 5y agoBest I’ve found are the ones at Homestate in LA: https://www.myhomestate.com/ https://www.myhomestate.com/
- Metacelsus 5y ago>the quickest route between two points is along a straight line through the Earth’s interior. Not true, it's a hypocycloid curve. https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SphereWithTunnelBrachistochrone/ https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/SphereWithTunnelBrachisto...
- bernulli 5y agoOnly if there is no propulsion and whatever goes through the tunnel exclusively relies on gravity.
- heyflyguy 5y agoIs this real?
- walrus01 5y agoIs anything real? How do you know we're not living in a simulation of burrito tunnels and orbital launch railguns?
- moioci 5y agoI was totally with them until this bit: "The burritos already came conveniently wrapped in aluminum foil - it would be trivial to accelerate them with powerful magnets."
- lcuff 5y agoIt turns out, they use a variation on the transparent aluminum referenced in "Star Trek, the Voyage Home", which can be magnetized or not, based on control from the tricorder.