Breakfast burritos are popular late night snack
Thursday, 12 November 2009 03:39
Are you looking for a breakfast burrito at 1 a.m.?
In Tucson, Ariz. it's easy to find 24-hour Mexican restaurants that serve breakfast burritos, many within a 10-minute drive of The University of Arizona.
Southwestern cuisine, New Mexican cuisine, and Tex-Mex in particular, have popularized the breakfast burrito, which can include an entire American breakfast wrapped inside a 15-inch flour tortilla.
Breakfast burritos are made up of some combination of scrambled eggs, bacon, potatoes, cheese, sausage, ham, steak, beans, chorizo, fries, machaca, or guisado. They are perfect as an easy meal on the go or a late night snack.
Los Betos Mexican Food offers a variety of breakfast burritos for under $5. Ranging from your basic bacon/ham/sausage/potato, egg and cheese for $3.29 to the steak, egg and cheese offered for $4.79. The closest Los Betos to campus is about a five minute drive north on East Grant Road. This location offers a drive-thru window, patio/outside dining and a walk-up window. Several other locations can be found near the UA campus.
Nico’s Taco Shop is another fast food Mexican restaurant. They have a location at Campbell Avenue and Blacklidge Drive that opened three months ago after moving from their previous location, two blocks north. Nico's is a little pricier than Los Betos, but you get what you pay for. All their breakfast burritos are $4.24 and they offer bacon/ham/steak/bean/chorizo, egg, potato and cheese. The reason Nico’s is a little more expensive is because of the added potato, according to store manager Phil Carreno. “Our most popular burrito is the bacon, egg, cheese and potato burrito,” Carreno said. This Nico’s location offers a drive-thru window, outside patio, and indoor dining area.
The Taco Shop Company is the cheapest and closest Mexican fast food to campus. Located at 1350 E. Broadway Blvd., it is a ten minute walk from Sixth Street. Their steak, egg and cheese burrito costs $3.49, while all their other burritos, ham/bacon/sausage/chorizo/machaca, egg and cheese cost $3.19. “Our most popular burrito served is our bacon, egg and cheese,” said Nubia Garcia, a Taco Shop Company employee. The Taco Shop Company offers outside and inside dining. “We get a lot of college students anywhere from midnight until 3 a.m. on the weekends, but our most popular time for breakfast burritos is during the morning,” Garcia said. "I prefer Taco Shop over the other places for a few reasons," said Kyle Nelson, a sophomore majoring in business at UA. "It's two blocks from my house, so it's a five minute walk and their breakfast burritos are super cheap."
Los Alazanes Mexican Food has its only location at 2553 N. Campbell Ave. They are different from other breakfast burrito shops because instead of potatoes, they offer fries. The prices at Los Alazanes range from $3.80 to $4.60. “This is my favorite out of all the breakfast burritos because I like the fries in the burrito versus the potato,” said Ethan Fry, a business sophomore at University of Arizona. “I don’t mind paying the extra 50 cents or whatever it is.” Los Alazanes has inside dining and a drive-thru window. “Coming from Southern California, we don’t really have many places like this, so I get them whenever I get a chance,” Fry said.
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