It’s double-wrapped with two flour tortillas, and comes with your choice of meat, rice, tomatoes, lettuce, cilantro-all in abundance. The El Gordo is a two-hander burrito, and it comes on a plate with a knife and fork. This place is a hit-with two cash registers where you order, a sure sign of success. “The family taco stand perfected” is what they call it, and they’re right. Corrales also sells veggie burritos with meat! This is the sort of thinking that gives us super-long light cigarettes. The recommended veggie burrito contains lettuce, rice, beans, cheese and avocado-yum. Perhaps it is because the place is so busy, nothing sits around except for the customers. Everything is great, especially the veggie burritos because the ingredients are really fresh. At the Thompson location nearest downtown, the service is excruciatingly slow. ![]() What once was a little family-owned hole-in-the-wall way up the Avenue, has expanded to two more popular locations on Thompson Boulevard. Also, the basic corn chips are better than everyone else’s. ![]() Both disappeared so fast I can hardly remember what was in them without reading the menu-rice, broccoli, avocado, the usual. The burrito was so good, it was history before half of “Hang On Sloopy” was over.īasically a feel-good veggie place, it offers a couple of burritos: the California Broccoli Roll and the Vegetarian Burrito. The burritos are first-rate but when you bite into one, it is messier than the ending of the “Wild Bunch.” The carne asada, or grilled beef, is just right, and it comes with a side order of rice. There’s an airy inside patio area, which includes a Chrysler-size gumball machine and lots of video games. There are other Chuys in Oxnard and Simi Valley, but this one is sort of beat-up and funky. It’s heavy, tasty and a definite two-hander. It is, essentially, a potato-salad burrito with avocado, cheese, lettuce and salsa. This is what all fast-food should be.Īlong with hamburgers, hot dogs and other all-American fare, you can get a one-of-a-kind veggie burrito proudly proclaimed in giant letters on the front window. The Baja Salsa is dark and delicious, and all orders come with chips and a lime. The Baja Burrito is a masterpiece and makes a nap a necessity afterward. ![]() No lard, no MSG, no microwaves and no other bad stuff-but the food is great. There are other Bajas in Newbury Park, Camarillo and Oxnard. This is the place that most everyone in the east county frequents. Most of the places reviewed are mom-and-pop self-serve operations, with sit-down restaurants excluded due to space limitations. National chains, though popular, are not covered. ![]() After all, there are burrito joints everywhere, and I went to more than 40 of them from Fillmore to La Conchita. This list makes no pretense at being the complete burrito guide to Ventura County. My mission was to search (the county) and destroy (my insides) in pursuit of the Top 10 Best Burritos. Now, as you well know, burritos have become much more elaborate. The name means literally “little donkey,” and came to describe the food little boys tending donkeys stuck in their back pockets to eat later. No one knows for sure who made the first one, but the burrito was an early model of efficiency-something tasty, usually beans, wrapped inside a flour tortilla. So what do you want for a buck, health insurance, too? If you were lucky, they remembered to take out the toothpicks before frying them. Yet, those were clearly the days-12 for a buck! You’d take a bite out of one of those dudes and the beans would squish out the other end, sizzle off your fingertips leaving third-degree burns, then spiral to the ground like a dying missile only to plop with a hiss on your wingtips. When I was going to Ventura High School, there were great corn burritos right across the street at Foster’s Freeze, which is now a battery store.
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