Gourmet Burrito

These days everything is gourmet, fine dining, or gastro pub. People are asking for better quality, more options, and comfort food is getting to a new level to try to step up to the plate. How could imagine that a fast food chain could categorized themselves as gourmet! In my opinion most of the time the term is used to lightly but sometimes you can be surprised.

I try to avoid as much as I can fast food, but sometimes there is no option, you need a quick/fast snack to get back to work. One of the places I tend to go is Chilango, to have gourmet burritos! Yes gourmet burritos! I honestly can imagine anything being gourmet but a burrito? Seriously!

The meal

I just remember when at Uni here in London near Moorgate we used to go to Whitecross market and one of the best sellers is the burrito wagon, not sure about the name though, but they’re every week day selling burritos there, and in my opinion probably same quality and taste as the “gourmet” options, and even cheaper. One of my friends he usually went on and on with this place in the US name Chipotle, best burrito ever, etc. So last week I spotted one in Toledo and decided give it a try.

The place has been around since 1993, and it’s massive in the US, they have one restaurant in London, but according to my friend Tehbus, not good at all. I went to the place, assembly line concept just like subway and many other places, fast and standard quality. The burrito was good, tasty, good flavour. Now was it better than the other two? Can’t say, not sure! For me honestly is basically the same. Do I think that is gourmet? I definitely no! For me it’s still comfort food, still not buying the gourmet comfort food trend!

All this reminds me the Seinfeld episode “The Reverse Peephole”.

Kramer: I'm on the Mexican, whoa ohh, radio...

Silvio: Eh, what are you doing?

Kramer: Hey, Silvio. Yeah, I'm reversing my peephole.

Silvio: Hey, you know you gotta get permission from me. I'm the super. Who said you could do that?

Kramer: Well, who says I can do any of the things I do in my place?
Silvio: Like what?

Kramer: Well, I... uh, nothing. No, I'll, um, I'll switch it back.

Silvio: No, no, no, no. No, that's all right.

Kramer: Well, that's good. Because, uh, Newman and I…

Silvio: Newman? He did this, too?

Kramer: Well, yeah.
Silvio: I deal with him.