Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Burrito Madness '09

OK, so my friend Colin got struck by an idea bolt in his mind grapes the other day. He wants to have a Denver burrito challenge where we eat a burrito every week from a different restaurant and rate them. At the end of our exhaustive list of burrito-serving venues, we'll declare a winner.

We'll use a 1-5 burrito scale to rate each tubular, tortilla-shrouded beast. Like so:

  • Really good burrito:
  • Not so good burrito:
  • Best friggin' burrito ever:

You get the idea. There may also be short reviews involved if we're feeling verbose.

The team is currently composed of me, Colin, Anne B., and Mari S. Our first stop will be Illegal Pete's on 2/12. After that we'll be visiting (in no particular order):

  • Chipotle
  • Qdoba
  • D'Corazon
  • El Taco de Mexico
  • Big City Burrito
  • Wahoo's Fish Taco
Why is that burrito-sellers always emphasize that lesser-of-the-handheld-pseudo-Mexican-foodstuffs, the taco, in their names? Come on, muchachos, El Burrito de Mexico and Wahoo's Fish Burrito sound so much more appealing to this gringo's orejas.

UPDATE: This didn't happen. Oh well.

2 comments:

Crystal said...

ooh ooh, what about the burrito cart places I see all over? Are any of them veggie?

thew said...

Awesome idea. Looking forward to the burrito reviews. I'd be happy eating a burrito or two every day in a constant rotation of the places you've mentioned. Big City is killer, as is taco de mexico. Of the big chains I prefer Qdoba over wahoos over chipotle. But variety is the spice of life, and burritos are the spice of variety, or something.