Burritos Archive

  • Tacos in Firebaugh and Huron / A burrito in Los Angeles

    Tacos in Firebaugh and Huron / A burrito in Los Angeles

    So on Wednesday, when I drove from Oakland to Santa Monica — a drive that I’ve made since I was a kid easily over 100 times — I decided to spice things up a little bit. I-5, as most people know, is California’s most boring...

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  • Oakland Taco Trucks on Google Maps

    Oakland Taco Trucks on Google Maps

    My wonderfully food nerdy friends on Chowhound have put together a Google Maps edition of Oakland taco trucks. Oh man, I want a burrito right about now.

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  • The best taco truck in Oakland

    The best taco truck in Oakland

    So after trying Monica’s favorite burrito place in the East Bay, Chavez Market in Hayward this weekend, I still haven’t found any burrito superior to the ones from El Ojo de Agua in Fruitvale. I just found a January 2006 piece from the Chronicle talking...

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  • What’s the best burrito in Oakland?

    What’s the best burrito in Oakland?

    Stolen from my post at Chowhound: Four friends and I gathered together last night for a Frutivale five burrito showdown. We usually hit up El Ojo de Agua about once a week. Their burritos are the best that we’ve found in the neighborhood, and it’s...

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  • On burritos

    On burritos

    So today I was digging around the interwebs for some info about burritos. Three items stick out: 1) I found this 85 burrito odyssey in the Chronicle from last September. 2) I found a possible reference to myself in UrbanDictionary.com, under the entry “california burrito”....

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