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.
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.
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.
Taco Bell's loaded burrito; seasoned beef, beans, rice, cheese, sour cream, tomatoes.
Vegetarian Taco Bell burrito; beans, rice, guacamole, sour cream, cheese, tomatoes, lettuce.
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.
The surf and turf burrito runs two proteins on two clocks: carne asada charred hard, camarón pulled in two minutes, in one flour tortilla where a Baja seafood counter meets the border asada grill.
Extra-large burrito with everything; rice, beans, meat, cheese, sour cream, guacamole, salsa.
A rolled flour tortilla drowned in roasted Hatch green chile and gratinéed cheese, baked until the top browns, then plated and eaten with a fork. Ordered green, red, or Christmas.
Burrito covered in chile sauce (red or green) and cheese, baked.
The San Diego burrito runs fresh and grilled where others run wet and stewed, and its signature is the California burrito: carne asada and hot french fries rolled tight in a flour tortilla.
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'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.
The grilled-chicken burrito: marinated thighs charred fast on mesquite or hot iron, chopped not shredded, rolled into a large flour tortilla with rice, beans, salsa, and cheese.
New Mexico style; heavily featuring Hatch green chiles or red chile sauce, often smothered.
San Francisco Mission District-style burrito; large flour tortilla with rice, beans, meat, cheese, sour cream, salsa, guacamole, lettuce ...
LA style; often smaller than Mission style, variety of regional Mexican fillings.
Grilled skirt steak, the cut Spanish calls a faja or strip, rolled into a flour tortilla with charred peppers, rice, and beans. The Tex-Mex fajita packed into one hand.
A New Mexican burrito sauced with both red and green chile across the same plate, named for the two colours together: the third standing answer to the state question of red or green.
Assembly-line fast-casual that scaled the Mission rice-and-bean wrap to a national chain. Steve Ells opened the first store in Denver on 13 July 1993.
A whole battered, fried, cheese-stuffed poblano rolled into a flour tortilla with rice and beans: a finished dish folded inside a finished format, where Puebla's relleno meets the northern burrito.
Michoacán carnitas, part shredded and part crisped, packed into an oversized foil-wrapped California flour burrito with rice, beans, and guacamole holding the fat in check.
San Diego's border taco shops took the burrito and subtracted: grilled carne asada, guacamole, salsa, and a flat refusal of rice, beans, and fries.
Burrito with french fries and crispy elements.
San Diego specialty; carne asada with french fries, cheese, guacamole, sour cream inside. The fries are essential and distinctive.