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| - I'm done with mediocre burrito places. Both Burrito Bandidos and Burrito Boyz.
I'm sure someone will read this and tell me once again "Have you tried the halibut burrito? It's so awesome!". Frankly, shut your face. If I'm going to have a burrito I'm going to have meat. If I wanted fish, I would go to The Combine and get their awesome fish tacos.
So let's talk about last night's experience. The girl taking my order couldn't get it right. I had to repeat myself at least twice on each ingredient. If she had just taken a breath, finished the one burrito she was working on then moved onto mine, it would have been fine. They weren't that busy, take your time, slow down, and provide some customer service.
You get a scoop of beans, fine, but I don't really like eating some slop that looks like cat food. Where's the choice? Give me some black beans. Next they put on a few kernels of rice which quickly get absorbed by the bean slop and are gone forever. Now that I've tried this type of burrito a couple times before I had the foresight to skip the lettuce so that I wouldn't have a warm green mush of what used to be lettuce once they grill my burrito.
Compared to other places they don't charge extra for quac, which is nice, except that you get about a tablespoon of it. I would rather pay the extra like at Chipotle and have enough guac so that I could actually tell there was some on my burrito. They're also chintzy with the sour cream, one quick squirt, that's all you get.
I'll give them props on the amount of meat. I got a decent portion of pork, though the flavour could have been a little more outstanding.
The girl behind the till was friendly and smiley. Good job! Wish I had grabbed her name so that I could call her out here.
Bandidos is the right name for this place since I felt pretty robbed when I got through the till. $9 got me the small pork burrito and a chocolate milk. Portion wise, I would say this is a fair price. Quality wise, it is far from it. Which brings me to my next point of the enjoyment (or lack there of) of my burrito.
As I walked home I tore off the top half of the wrapping to discover a HEAVILY grilled burrito. So not only did I get the taste of burnt tortilla in some of my bites, after a couple bites in the tortilla cracked open and started leaking everywhere. What I found on the inside of my burrito was bean slop and pork with little chunks of bell peppers. All of the other ingredients in the burrito had become unidentifiable.
Finally, let's talk about the time factor. There were about 5 people ahead of me when I walked in. After waiting 15 minutes I got the silver wrapper of what this place calls a burrito in my hand. Why does it take so long? Get a clam-shell grill or a panini press, or a convection oven to toast the burritos with. The technology exists to cook both sides of the burrito at the SAME TIME!!
Let's sum things up in some easy to read pros and cons:
PROS:
- Good portion of meat
- Benches to sit on while you wait an extraordinary amount of time for your food
- Friendly girl at the cash register
CONS:
- EVERYTHING ELSE!
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