El Burrito

Wet Burrito

A flour-tortilla burrito laid on a plate, smothered in red chile sauce, blanketed in melted cheese, and broiled until the tortilla softens into the dish: the Midwest diner plate you eat with a fork.

Veggie Burrito

The Mission taqueria's standing default: a steamed flour tortilla around beans, rice, grilled vegetables, cheese, and guacamole, the protein slot filled by composition rather than by meat.

Sushi Burrito

A hand roll scaled to Mission-burrito size, never cut, eaten end-on: the sushi burrito was trademarked before it existed, opened in San Francisco in 2011, and outlived the company that named it.

Quesarito

A burrito rolled inside a cheese quesadilla, one sandwich used as the wrapper for another, the cheese welding the shell into a single sheet. A San Diego counter trick Taco Bell took national in 2014.

Qdoba Burrito

Qdoba's burrito is the fast-casual line plus free 3-Cheese Queso. It took two lawsuits to settle on Zuma, then Z-Teca, then Qdoba by 1999, before a 2006 court ruled its burritos not sandwiches.