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The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

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Re: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

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post #5

Meta question, apologies: I submitted this exact link 20 days ago, and I've noticed several other precisely duplicate submissions recently. Meanwhile, sometimes I go to submit a link and I'm not allowed because there was a previous submission almost a year(!) ago. Just what the heck are the rules here?

Email the mods and ask this question. They won’t see it here and they’d take the time to consider and reply if you did.

Re: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

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post #10

More importantly, where do I get a breakfast taco in California? The fact that my pre-Covid early morning business trips from Austin to San Diego used to have me delivering a boatload of breakfast tacos from the Austin airport shows that there is an untapped market.

> delivering a boatload of breakfast tacos from the Austin airport

Ah yes, the lesser-known cousin of the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel, the Austin-Bergstrom Breakfast Taco Canal

Re: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

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post #10

More importantly, where do I get a breakfast taco in California? The fact that my pre-Covid early morning business trips from Austin to San Diego used to have me delivering a boatload of breakfast tacos from the Austin airport shows that there is an untapped market.

Best I’ve found are the ones at Homestate in LA: https://www.myhomestate.com/

Re: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

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post #4

in seriousness, I'm hoping people will comment here with the best places to get a mission burrito in NYC

what I really want to know is the best place to get a san diego burrito in SF. Key differentiators: - no fillers (no rice, no beans; beans acceptable in breakfast burritos) - generous portions of meats - chicken that is finished by grilling on the grill, not ropa-style pulled straight out of a dewey plastic bin - wrap that is toasted - wax paper wrap instead of foil (lets the burrito breathe instead of becoming damp…

Yes please. I grew up in and came back to Northern California but San Diego has better Mexican food and we don’t talk about it enough. I uncharitably claim that San Francisco seems to have a reputation for awesome Mexican food more from visitors from New York and other places outside the state who don’t know better. I miss midnight burritos from Cotixan’s something fierce. I haven’t found anything comparable up here since moving back, after years of trying. I have resigned myself to an admittedly still solid mission style burrito or just sneaking over to the taco side of the menu to bypass the burrito feelings.

Don’t get me wrong, there’s some good places up here for other aspects of Mexican and Mexican adjacent food, but I dearly miss San Diego style burritos and haven’t found a replacement.

Re: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

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If anyone is looking to pair up on a burrito-ranking site for NYC, please reach out. Have been working on a side project for it and would love a partner to build with. I already have the domain name for it (nycburritos.com)

If you do this, maybe make something like the guy who ate every slice of pizza in manhattan?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbx3vv/this-man-ate-every-sl...

http://www.sliceharvester.com/

other good domain names available:

burrito.is

burrito.inc

burrito.

burrito.engineering

burrito.guru

burrito.center

burrito.services

burrito.technology

burrito.reviews

burrito.catering

burrito.services

burrito.supply

burrito.builders

burrito.zone

Re: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

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post #8

in seriousness, I'm hoping people will comment here with the best places to get a mission burrito in NYC

more of a taco guy, but... calexico, dos toros, oaxaca the morelos empire: 2nd and a, north 6 and bedford, grand and graham (edit: they had/have a storefront in the east village, don't remember where now but near superiority burger i believe) also there's supposedly some legit birria trucks about, but i have not tried them. and, i don't know if anyone closed due to the pandemic.

Good to see Dos Toros on the list, I know one of the founders. Used to play shows with his band in the Bay Area in the early 2000s!

Re: The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel (2007)

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post #8

in seriousness, I'm hoping people will comment here with the best places to get a mission burrito in NYC

more of a taco guy, but... calexico, dos toros, oaxaca the morelos empire: 2nd and a, north 6 and bedford, grand and graham (edit: they had/have a storefront in the east village, don't remember where now but near superiority burger i believe) also there's supposedly some legit birria trucks about, but i have not tried them. and, i don't know if anyone closed due to the pandemic.

Dos Toros burritos are not great (though to be fair you said tacos), I wish people would stop recommending it.

I spent years looking for a good Mission burrito in New York City, and never found it. Lots of good food, but every burrito was Tex-Mex or San Diego style or some such. Also, I never found a place with real al pastor; it was always grilled.

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