Wrap Sandwich
Any sandwich filling rolled in a flour tortilla or lavash; 1990s health-food trend that became permanent American sandwich format.
Tacos, Burritos & American Wraps
Venezuelan Arepa
A corn-flour cake split and packed warm with shredded chicken and avocado, black beans and queso, or shredded beef and cheese; the everyday food of a US Venezuelan diaspora.
Torta (Tex-Mex)
A bolillo split and griddled, sealed with refried beans, packed with grilled fajita meat, avocado, and cool toppings. The Mexican torta as it reads on the Texas border.
Torta de Milanesa
Breaded, fried beef or chicken cutlet torta.
Super Burrito
Burrito with all the extras: guacamole, sour cream, cheese.
South Dakota Indian Taco
The Lakota fry-bread Indian taco of the Northern Plains: USDA commodity pintos, ground beef, salsa over a hot round. South Dakota made fry bread its state bread in 2005.
Smash Burger Taco
Smash burger patty cooked directly on a flour tortilla with American cheese, onions, pickles, and pink sauce; TikTok viral trend (626M+ v...
Salvadoran Pupusa
Thick corn masa flatbread stuffed with cheese, beans, pork, or loroco, griddled and served with curtido (pickled cabbage) and tomato sals...
Quesabirria
Birria meat with melted cheese in a pressed tortilla, served with consommé dip; birria taco's cheesier cousin, equally viral.
Puffy Taco
The San Antonio puffy taco: a disk of fresh masa deep-fried raw so it balloons into a light, hollow-walled shell, folded hot and filled with picadillo. The crackle is the whole signature.
Navajo Taco
Hot puffed fry bread under seasoned beef or mutton, pinto beans, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and green chile. A reservation and fair food whose carrier dates to an 1864 forced removal.
Mission Burrito
A twelve-inch flour tortilla holds rice, beans, meat, cheese, salsa, sour cream, and guacamole, sealed in foil. The rice is the engineering that makes the rest of the Mission burrito possible.
Middle Eastern Shawarma Wrap
Shaved spit-roasted lamb or chicken, rolled into warmed pita or markook with tahini or toum, pickled turnip, and salad, sealed at the seam on a flat grill. The Arab-American working diaspora staple.
Jianbing
A thin mung-bean crepe poured to order on a hot griddle, egg raked in, sweet bean sauce and a fried cracker folded inside, the jianbing of northern China.
Gyro (American)
Lamb-beef mixture cooked on a vertical rotisserie, sliced and served in pita with tomato, onion, and tzatziki; Greek-American creation, d...
Green Chile Breakfast Burrito
Eggs, potatoes, cheese, and green chile in a flour tortilla.
Fry Bread Sandwich
Fry bread used as sandwich bread with various fillings.
Fish Taco
Beer-battered fish in a corn or flour tortilla with cabbage slaw; Baja California/San Diego.
Döner Kebab (American)
Shaved beef and lamb off the spit, heaped loose into flatbread under a pale garlic white sauce and a thin red hot sauce. The Turkish-German spit sandwich, rebuilt big for an American cart window.
Colombian Arepa de Huevo
Deep-fried corn arepa with a whole egg cooked inside; Colombian street food found in Colombian-American enclaves.
Chimichanga
Deep-fried burrito; claimed to be invented in Tucson.
Carne Asada Fries Torta
Carne asada fries in a torta roll; San Diego hybrid.
California Fish Taco
San Diego-style fish taco with white sauce.
California Burrito
Carne asada, cheese, guacamole, and French fries in a flour tortilla; San Diego creation.