Tracing the delicious history of San Francisco's Mission-style burrito

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I don’t know how you can define a mission style burrito. I mean, havent they been doing flour tortilla with meat in Sonora since forever? The mission style burrito just seems to be a natural evolution. All over California there is the distinct Sonoran style Mexican food and taqueria.

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ED! I haven't seen ya in ages, ever since I was in Grade school going to La Cumbre with Mitch from 24 hour fitness in San Mateo

From growing up in the mission and visiting Mexico as a kid.
In Mexico they were made with beans and meat in a folded corn tortilla and that was a burrito. Similar to a taco now.
The two main stays El Faro and La Cumbre translated it for the Mission district. They used the foil and the flour tortilla which made it so easy to eat or take to go. That's what became the Mission style we all know to love.
I can't tell you for sure who did it first but they both did it first.
Also El Faro has another location in San Bruno. My choice for the best burrito in the Peninsula.

Carlos! Lovely story, but for the love and honor of burritos, please straighten your tie - or just don't wear it! 🌯👔

if you have to have a sign claiming to be the first, you're probably not the first 😂🤣

I live in Arizona and sadly to say Mexican good here is nasty nothing compared to what you find in the mission. I miss those burritos they are the best!!!

Best burritos are in San Jose

Please wear gloves! Should not be handling food without them.

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I went to Mexico and ordered a burrito 🌯 in a taqueria? And the waiter showed up with small donkey!

LA CUMBREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE foreverrrrrrrrr😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 🌯

YESS!!!!! FINALLY someone is showing some love to Taqueria San Francisco. Most underrated taqueria in the city!

Growing up in SF, it was sad going outside of the bay and getting a “super” burrito and saying “I ordered a super not a regular” 🤦‍♂️ not the same. Can’t beat the Mission Burrito

Meh. Too much filler in those burritos, it's mostly rice and beans. Come down to San Diego and get a proper carne asada burrito. Just steak, guac and pico de gallo. And hot sauce of course.

I started going to Lacumbre in the mid 70s. I’ve NEVER had a better burrito even in New Mexico where I now live.

I hate it when they cut into the foil-wrapped burritos...how is it that the defragmented foil not ending up in your stomach...call me anal but people are just not thinking

Been tryna find a good mission burrito in Sacramento for years only one taqueria ever came close but closed shortly after I found it.

"You can get something like this all over the country!".🙄Ummm, no you can't. After growing up in the bay area and now living in New Orleans, I'll tell you right now that any burrito outside of northern california SUCKS. They do weird things like leave both ends open, adding cheap fillers like corn or [gasp] celery, and the tortilla isn't right at all. Plus all the burritos in the rest of america are small and weird because they can't get thin, large tortillas. Also the meat tastes weird in the rest of the country. Also, they never wrap them in tinfoil.😠

I can give credence to El Faro as I had a super burrito there in 1968, one year before La Cumbre says the invented it. But what I went there for was the Carnita Torta!

La Cumbre guy is full of shit. In northern Mexico, people have been eating flour tortillas before even his great grand parents were born. The people that populated northern Mexico since the conquest had middle east ancestry. They ate more goat and lamb, goat cheese along with other things that they picked up from centuries in Spain.

Man, I hella miss the burritos in SF. I live in Florida now & they have no idea what Mexican food is supposed to taste like down here.

San Diego > Frisco bureets all day long!

In San Francisco, there are good burritos in most neighborhoods. Even in Chinatown, you can get a good burrito.

Rice in a burrito is a waste of space. All meat baby. San diego got mexican food on lock. No pause

Taqueria Farolito on 24th and Mission has the best burrito.

So delicious ! mmmm 🌶️

Been going to El Faro to get their Carne asada Super Burrito with extra guacamole and peppers since 1970. One of the best in the Mission district!!!!!!! 👍🌯🌮

El Paso claims to be the original home of the burrito. It was for the travelers heading west.

the key is the rice in a extra large flour tortilla of a mission burrito...

La alteña was the best one on 22 and mission next to the Popeyes before the government burnt it and made apartments for the techies

I've never understood why in united states say "salsa" instead just say it sauce. It's literally that.

Tapatio on Grand avenue is the best burrito I have ate in San Francisco they cook everything in front of you.

I had these burritos for the first time when I was a kid at a long-gone mexican restaurant on the Peninsula in the middling 1970s.

It was always known as "a burrito" and I didn't hear the term "mission burrito" till the 2000s.

This restaurant won't make it they
Up there prize us hi they be closing there door soon
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I would like it grilled / toasted.

The burrito is Mexican 🌯 not hispanic

❤😂🎉st Andre house burrito thrusday, Phoenix Arizona,cass st Vincent de Paul, NBC number 1 fan 4:30 pm

El Farolito on 24th and Alabama is my go to. Born and raised in the mission district

El Metate on 22nd and Bryant is good ass hell too

Nice review. Corn is for tacos. Wheat/white/allpurpose flour is for burritos.

The way to deal with burrito prices being too high is, make them yourself. Not as convenient as going to a taqueria, but you have control of what things go into the burrito.

Back in the 80 Lacumbre on Valencia @16 th had the best carne assada of them all. Today not so much

Sal, need you to do a story on burritos. Okay if you insist. lol

There is no doubt that El Faro invented the Mission Burrito as I had one there in 1968

One day in our distant future, on a shining generation ship many light years from Earth, a young person will learn to make Mission style burritos in their grandma's restaurant and carry on the tradition of a whole meal in a neat edible package for people "on the go."

The city for burritos The town for tacos

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