Wet Burrito
A burrito laid on a plate, smothered in red chile sauce and blanketed in melted cheese: the Midwest diner answer to the handheld, built to surrender and eaten with a fork.
A burrito laid on a plate, smothered in red chile sauce and blanketed in melted cheese: the Midwest diner answer to the handheld, built to surrender and eaten with a fork.
The Mission-lineage vegetarian burrito: a large wheat tortilla rolled around grilled vegetables, rice, beans, cheese, and guacamole, each component covering a different gap left by the absent 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 quesarito is a burrito rolled inside a cheese quesadilla, one sandwich used as the structural shell of another, the cheese welding the wrapper into a single continuous sheet.
Qdoba style; similar to Chipotle, queso available.
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.
The fajita burrito wraps grilled skirt steak, charred peppers, and onions into a flour tortilla over rice and beans, a Tex-Mex marriage of the ranch fajita and the burrito.
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.
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.
The taqueria carne asada burrito is defined by subtraction: lime-marinated grilled beef chopped into a flour tortilla with guacamole and salsa fresca, the rice, beans, and fries left out.
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.