The Longfellow Breakfast Burrito Checklist
The Churn for February 21, 2025
"A burrito is a sleeping bag for ground beef.”
Mitch Hedberg, via Twitter
In this week’s edition of The Heavy Table’s Churn newsletter, we team up with Longfellow Whatever to bring you a hard-hitting breakdown of every breakfast burrito available in the Longfellow neighborhood. Heavy Table exists solely because of the support of subscribers like you - thanks for making our work telling the stories of food and drink in the Upper Midwest possible.
MY PATCH
My family moved to the Longfellow neighborhood of Minneapolis about 15 years ago, and the longer we stay here, the more it truly feels like “home.” As much as I gripe about the “almost great but not quite there” level of restaurants around here - nearly everything has some sort of non-fatal but noteworthy flaw - the recent openings of Lynette, Francis Burger Joint, Asian Duck, and the rebooted Fire Roast all offer hope for the scene. Of course restaurants don’t, by themselves, make a neighborhood. That comes down to people, and when it comes to people, we’ve fallen hard for this place.
Longfellow revolves around community - there isn’t much anonymity to be had via tall fences or big lots. You see your neighbors out and about every day, and when you survive something like the 2020 torching of most of our local grocery stores, gas stations, and pharmacies, you get to know your neighbors pretty well, too. Our part of town is regularly at or near the top of voter turnout, and among the locals I’ve gotten to know are many nurses, teachers, social workers, writers, carpenters, musicians, and artists. More than any other place I’ve lived, Longfellow seems defined by residents who make service to other people the guiding light of their lives.
All of this is to say that the founding of the hyper-local and hyper-prolific newsletter Longfellow Whatever comes as no surprise to me, nor does the proliferation of yard signs celebrating the publication. It’s one of my favorite reads, and getting the chance to pound the pavement with founder Trevor Born for this week’s featured story was a legitimate treat. – James Norton
HEAVY TABLE’S HOT FIVE
#5 Detroit Pizza at Bricksworth Beer Co. | Minneapolis and Burnsville, Minn.
Detroit pizza has become a staple in our freezer and for our nights out for pizza the past couple of years. And each time we visit Bricksworth, we get a cheesy, chewy, crispy, base each time that compliments. I wrote about the Elote back in September 2023, and it's still great. But back then I wrote about the Happiest Meal pizza as well. This time, Bricksworth, seemingly in love with burgers and pickles, made a Fried Pickle Pizza. Ranch, sliced pickles, and chewy bread crumbs combine for a messy, tasty concoction. While a seasonal release, keep an eye out for any of their pizza utilizing pickles, as it ends up being some of the pizza pubs best stuff. – Louis Livingston-Garcia
#4 Al Pastor and Buffalo Trace Old Fashioned at Bar Cart | Saint Paul
Bar Cart really seems to be onto something when it comes to cocktails. Although the restaurant’s menu is sprawlingly long, the price is right ($10-15 for most drinks) and the quality is there. You can dial in an Old Fashioned for anywhere between $11-22, but Buffalo Trace (a fine, tasty bourbon) is a mere $12. The smooth, mellow flavor of Buffalo Trace is a fine match for the sweetly complex good cheer of an Old Fashioned. Our Al Pastor was similarly good - this twist on a classic margarita leans into charred jalapeno and smoked pineapple to deliver a campfire kick that conjures up the Mexican meat style of the same name. – James Norton
#3 Beef Bourguignon by Julia Child
I cook a lot, and yet very few of those recipes make it to this section of Heavy Table: There has to be something special about a recipe to help it compete with the wondrous tastes produced in professional kitchens across the Upper Midwest. An old Julia Child mainstay, Beef Bourguignon, makes the cut - I thought it would be tasty, but I wasn’t reckoning on just how comforting, subtle, and thoroughly delicious it would be. It’s a three-hour recipe to make, but the experience is not particularly challenging and is, in fact, exactly the sort of uber-hygge marathon that can help turn a Sunday afternoon into the coziest part of the week. – James Norton
#2 Sausage Roll at Lynette | Minneapolis
“Sausage” and “breakfast pastry” only infrequently go together, and I often end up wishing they hadn’t - it’s easy to overwhelm a pastry with too much meat, too much grease, or too much salt. The beauty of Lynette’s delicate, crispy, chewy sausage roll is that it uses sausage in exactly the right way: essentially sprinkling it on as a condiment, providing a touch of salty, fatty richness and flavor without swamping the balance of the pastry as a whole. It’s a surprisingly elegant way to start off your day. – James Norton
#1 Harami in Secret Pot at Gyu-Kaku | Minneapolis
At this point in time, my love for the Japanese grill-it-yourself restaurant Gyu-Kaku is hardly a secret to Heavy Table readers. However corny the concept may seem, the sheer fun (and delicious flavor) of the experience absolutely compensates a diner’s wounded culinary pride. After repeated visits leaning upon the menu’s prix fixe set options, my family has finally started to feel confident enough to pick our own way through the a la carte options.
Among the best: Harami in Secret Pot, a mild miso-marinated piece of beef that comes artfully coiled in a decorative pot along two also-ready-to-grill shishito peppers. The Harami in Secret Pot accomplishes two things: It’s a lot of fun to pull out of the pot, like a cobra emerging from a vase, and it’s a pretty good bargain for the money. (It’s also a lot of fun to cut up with the scissors that accompany the meat to the table, too.) The entree costs $30, but it’s a really generous cut of beef, easily equivalent to $60-70 worth of the thinly sliced beef options on the menu. And once you’ve thoroughly grilled it (we go about five minutes per side), it’s absolutely delicious, too. – James Norton
THE LONGFELLOW BREAKFAST BURRITO CHECKLIST
Heavy Table and Longfellow Whatever join forces to present an extremely specific but authoritative culinary survey
By Longfellow Whatever and James Norton
Heavy Table is a magazine that nominally covers the whole of the Upper Midwest, but, practically speaking, we focus strongly on the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area. Longfellow Whatever is an email newsletter that is confined to one specific patch of ground in Minneapolis, but its worldly and curious voice make it feel much larger than you might expect. Founder Trevor Born supplies an experienced journalistic eye and a hyperlocal focus to the project, and has in the process created a constant fountain of compelling stories.
January has been a banner month for the magazine, with a number of terrific reads published: Major outlets were chasing Longfellow Whatever’s fascinating profile of the 42nd Avenue ice tower; a look at a series of gunshots fired in Brackett Park is a model for dot-all-the-i’s local news reportage; and a long blowout piece on “ghost grocery stores” in Longfellow could run as a feature just about anywhere. As with nearly all of Longfellow Whatever’s posts, these stories are about local people and events, but the voice is engaging enough to resonate wherever it travels.
It was natural that the Longfellow-based Heavy Table and Longfellow Whatever would overlap at some point, and Longfellow Whatever got the ball rolling with a simple suggestion: What if we tried and rated every neighborhood breakfast burrito we could locate?
Over two mornings we split breakfast burritos at every establishment that is known to have one and wrote them up in the style of Heavy Table's checklists: A bit about the place (by Longfellow Whatever) and a bit about the food (by Heavy Table). We also added an unrigorous scoring system out of five, presented here in ascending order of points. The result is a bit of a long read by the standards of this newsletter, though that feels appropriate for the dishes in question, which usually well exceed what could reasonably be considered one serving.
So, 10 establishments, $213.38, and a five-digit number of calories later, Longfellow Whatever and Heavy Table jointly present: The Longfellow Breakfast Burrito Checklist.
James Norton's Brief Culinary Theory of Breakfast Burritos
While dining at these ten spots, Heavy Table and Longfellow Whatever had an opportunity to pull together a working theory of what makes or breaks a breakfast burrito. Here it is, divided into its component elements.
Balance: A good breakfast burrito balances its fillings. You can use hashbrowns or rice or eggs as a base layer to cradle and moderate bolder fillings, or you can lean into the meat and cheese of it all while making sure not to get too greasy or heavy with a strategic mix of other ingredients.
Moisture: While you don't want a bone-dry burrito first thing in the morning (or, sure, ever), the more common failing of a breakfast burrito is being swamped by moisture from its eggs and/or oil, the latter usually from the breakfast link or chorizo sausage filling. Too much oil or water makes for a rough experience, while controlling those qualities can help the ingredients really shine.
Tortilla: The perfect breakfast burrito tortilla would be a freshly-made flour tortilla, but barring a trip to Brito's, the best you can realistically ask for is a reasonably fresh tortilla that's been griddled or pressed so that it has a mix of chewiness and crispiness.
Seasoning: An unseasoned burrito (and we've had a few) is a depressing experience, but it's much more common to encounter one that's overly salty, sometimes to the point of inedibility. The challenge comes from the layering of salt: You can correctly salt your eggs, for example, but if they're also swimming in a mix of salty meat and aggressively salted potatoes, the entire package will be difficult to choke down.
Spicy heat: There's no excuse for a bland breakfast burrito; either it should pack its own credible level of heat, or salsa on the side should be standing at the ready to back it up.
#10: Habanero Grill
Breakfast Burrito with Chorizo | $11.50 | Available daily
If East Lake as a whole is known for any kind of business, it’s the traditional taqueria. And yet, until Habanero opened in the former Lake House Coffee in 2019, there hadn’t been a single such haunt on the entire stretch of Lake Street east of Hiawatha.
So Habanero filled a real niche when it moved its existing food truck business into the brick-and-mortar space at 3223 E Lake. Not just the gap in quick and relatively inexpensive tacos, burritos, and the like, but also the gap between drive-thru fast food and sit-down dining on our end of Lake. The fact that its food is so far above average is just icing on the cake — or guac on the burrito, as it were.
We dined in, which is accommodated but doesn’t feel encouraged — despite the presence of several tables and booths, they’ve never seemed to make an attempt to make an inviting dining room. (Something they’re clearly capable of, judging by the second location they opened in St. Paul last year, complete with a full bar and frequent karaoke.) It seems the bulk of the Lake Street location's function is as a takeout hub and a prep space for the food truck, so the environment is geared toward getting in and out quickly. Which is enough, given the tastiness of most of their menu — breakfast burrito, unfortunately, notwithstanding. -Longfellow Whatever
"Meaty, gritty, and wet" is a fairly unflattering three-adjective summary of a dish, but that's what we came up with for Habanero's chorizo breakfast burrito. Add missing-in-action potatoes and a tortilla that barely held together for the trip from the counter to the table, and you've got a breakfast burrito that falls into the "skip" column overall.
If you're a meat-forward eater you might be pleased by this burrito's heavy chorizo quotient, but for us the meat overwhelmed the elements other than sour cream, making for bites that were big on generic, room temperature tortilla, dairy, and protein. -James Norton
Rating: 2.5 / 5.0
#9: Blue Door Pub
Breakfast Burrito | $7.50 | Weekends only
From the inside, it's easy enough to forget that 15 years ago the Blue Door Pub was a shabby appliance repair shop. Its dark wood, vintage bar mirror, and worn fixtures give the impression of a neighborhood bar that's been there for generations.
Blue Door Longfellow opened in 2013, a sibling location to the breakout success of its original success on Selby Avenue in St. Paul. Mike Smith and James Brown, who would go on to open Forage Modern Workshop and Hi-Lo Diner on Lake Street, led the renovation from a dusty shop to a timeless pub atmosphere. The small chain's fortunes have fluctuated over the years, as they've added a college-oriented location on Como Avenue while closing the original space on Selby alongside short-lived attempts at 26th and Nicollet and at Lyndale and Lake. But the Longfellow location has remained a bustling destination that usually has a wait during dinner time, and its cozy interior particularly lends to a place that has a few more bodies than seats.
The menu is simple, centered around burgers and fries, with an emphasis on "Blucys," an elevated take on south Minneapolis's culinary claim to fame, the Juicy Lucy burger. They round out the menu with a handful of other items that can be dropped in the fryer — pickles, wings, tots, green beans.
One such recent experiment is the "Tater-ito," which is essentially their tater tot "nachos" wrapped in a tortilla. At $7.50 they're priced to sell and rotate flavors each day of the week, ranging from chimichangas on Wednesdays to barbacoa on Fridays to, on Saturdays and Sundays, you guessed it: The breakfast tater-ito. -LW
When it comes to breakfast burritos, hot sauce can be a real make-it-or-break-it condiment. There are breakfast burritos that come adorned with salsa and toppings or are stuffed with peppers with heat and vinegar kick, and they succeed on their own merits with no additional salsa necessary.
But then there are burritos like the tater tot-based one at Blue Door - a bland, mellow, monotonous dish that is little more than hangover food on its own. But add hot sauce [1] and the burrito is immediately elevated - all the missing heat, vinegar tang, and depth is immediately added, creating a balanced and legitimately tasty breakfast entree. If Blue Door had brought the salsa with the burrito we would've awarded this a straightforward 4.0 rating, but we're noting a double rating to reflect the extra work (and knowledge) required to kick this dish up from mundane to satisfying.
Rating: 3.0, (4.0 with hot sauce)
#8: Hi-Lo Diner
Tex-Mex Burrito | $16.50 | Available daily
Speaking of Mike Smith and James Brown: After turning over the building they'd been using as a cabinet shop to Blue Door, in 2011 they bought a former plumber’s union building on 41st and Lake and renovated it into Forage Modern Workshop, an eclectic home furnishings store that doubled as the headquarters for their growing contractor business. Next door they brought in the hip cafe Parka, which had an early run of glory before it fizzled and became Dogwood Coffee.
Then, after a few years of staring at the long-vacant shell of a Taco Bell across the street, the duo came up with the idea to buy it and find a salvaged diner car to stick on the front. In 2016 a flatbed trailer arrived from Gibsonia, PA, carrying two halves of the Venus Diner, which a crane dramatically lowered onto the front of the building.
Hi-Lo opened to an amount of fanfare befitting its catchy story. And though a few things have changed in the intervening years — most notably, its ambitious original operating hours of 6:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. hours have reduced to 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. — it’s remained a reliably busy place to get well-made fare in a cozy, bright, nostalgic environment. Our visit on a Wednesday mid-morning was no different, except that a staffing snafu meant that only one server was on to serve the entire 70 seat restaurant. No matter: She set our expectations properly, still kept our coffee and waters topped off, and any extra moments spent in the sunny vinyl booth surrounded by the chatter of a busy diner are moments well spent. -LW
The dense, heavy, meat-forward breakfast burrito at Hi-Lo Diner has some of the shortcomings of Habanero's offering, but it was a little more balanced. Hi-Lo's hashbrowns get somewhat lost in the mix, but in contrast to Habanero they were at least present. They helped tamp down some of the excessive moisture and balance the overall load, which was otherwise an aggressively-seasoned chorizo bomb.
The overall sauciness and cheesiness of this dish would make it difficult to carry around (like all of the burritos we tried on our first day out, to be honest) but both elements made this dish more fun. -JN
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
#7: Sonora Grill
Breakfast Burrito with Chorizo | $18 ($15 + $3 chorizo) | Available daily
Sonora Grill brought an ambiance and cuisine that was notably distinct from the typical taqueria offerings on Lake Street when it opened in 2014 in a former Ember’s at 33rd Avenue. Craft cocktails, brunch, reclaimed wood accents, and a large pergola patio call brought a hip twist to neighborhood Mexican dining, as did $4 and $5 tacos with fillings like cactus and shrimp tempura.
Perhaps given its size and chain restaurant heritage, when it's busy it can take on quite a buzz, but when it's not, it loses ambiance quickly. The day we visited, on a gray Wednesday during early lunch hours, we were the only patrons, which made the large interior both figuratively and literally cold. But when I passed by that late afternoon, there was a sizable crowd of people enjoying what is among the most generous happy hours in the neighborhood. And even though we’re here to talk breakfast burritos, I’d be remiss if I didn’t make a plug for my favorite taco of all time: Sonora’s Chicken Rojo ($6, or $3 on happy hour). -LW
Really wet, dense eggs and an aggressive load of damp spinach brought down this otherwise subtle and enjoyable burrito. In contrast to the hashbrowns of other restaurants, Sonora Grill serves up relatively firm chunks of potato that help balance the overall package, and the burrito's crispy tortilla was pleasant and structurally sound. If you're the kind of person who is looking for the strong presence of greens in your breakfast burrito, Sonora's spinach will make this an outstanding pick, because the dish's overall balance and depth of flavor is compelling and enjoyable. -JN
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
#6 Loncheria Los Amigos
Breakfast Burrito with Chorizo | $7.50 | Available daily
Loncheria Los Amigos is Longfellow's only permanent food truck, operated year-round and seven days a week (though, as we found on our first attempted visit, sometimes closed without warning) by longtime neighborhood resident Jaime Lopez. It gets much of its business as the de facto in-house food option for the Hook and Ladder Theater but, as LW profiled in November, has struggled to find a consistent customer base outside of those shows. Jaime has lately begun promoting his inexpensive breakfast burritos and breakfast bagel sandwiches to bring in the mid-morning crowd. It can be a bit slow by taco truck standards, so it pays to call ahead a few minutes, especially on a cold day. -LW
Like Blue Door, Loncheria Los Amigos serves up a pretty barebones, underflavored, but comforting breakfast burrito, little more than fluffy eggs, cheese, and chorizo filling up a workmanlike tortilla. But add the kicky, full-flavored hot salsa to the package and you're in business - it provides all the flavor and interest missing from the off-the-rack version of this dish. -JN
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
#5: The Howe Daily Kitchen
Breakfast Burrito with Chorizo | $15 | Weekends only
Aspiring restauranteur Steve Benowitz bought the windowless Jimmy's Steaks and Spirits at 39th and Minnehaha in 2004 and reopened it as The Rail Station, a vaguely seedy but well-patronized neighborhood dive. In 2016 he renovated and rebranded it as The Howe Daily Kitchen, featuring a tonier menu and decor, plus an all-season patio that catered to dog owners.
It was his second of what is now an eight-restaurant portfolio known as Craft&Crew, and it has the feel of a mid-sized local chain: Predictable, familiar, low-risk. Between its two patios, varied menu, long bar, nook for large-group seating, pull tabs, and plentitude of TVs, it's the type of place that can serve many functions to many people — including, on weekends, those looking for a leisurely bar brunch. -LW`
The Howe's all-the-bells-and-whistles treatment of a breakfast burrito is a reasonable approach considering the dish's high price. We were startled upon cutting into it to see much larger-than-usual pieces of green pepper and onions, and were concerned that we'd wandered into a skill level problem where insufficiently chopped up ingredients were going to be a major texture (and perhaps doneness) challenge to enjoying the dish.
As it turned out: the ingredients were thoroughly cooked without being over, and competent if surprising use of seasoning had given the whole thing the flavor of being a whopping serving of lunch counter chili packed into a sauced up tortilla wrapper. -JN
Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
#4: Turtle Bread
Breakfast Burrito with Chorizo | $14.45 | Available daily
Harvey McClain opened Turtle Bread Longfellow in 2011, the third of three south Minneapolis locations for the spacious bakery-breakfast-and-lunch concept. It replaced a series of low-rent neighborhood beer joints — Armstrong’s, Pizza Pie and I, The Nest, Riviera — and returned the corner building to its charming roots, blasting off the bright red paint and peeling back the vinyl siding that concealed the classic streetcar-era brickwork.
Back then, the restaurant also touted a plan to have a dinner and drinks operation, as it does with its other two locations, but those never materialized. Perhaps it was deemed unnecessary given the steady business the cafe draws during the nine hours it’s open each day, with versatile offerings that include baked goods, coffee shop fare, a full breakfast and lunch menu, and coolers of convenience items.
Turtle Bread stands apart from some of its cafe peers as a place that most people visit to chat, rather than to work. This creates a loud and lively cafe din that is suited for idle gabbing. On the hipness spectrum it is closer to The Longfellow Grill than it is to Lynette or Milkweed, and, as we found, there may be some mysterious correlation between this understated style and the quality of its breakfast burrito offering. -LW
We (Heavy Table) haven't given the low-key and approachable breakfast at Turtle Bread much of a shake over the years. That was apparently a mistake, because the restaurant's breakfast burrito is legitimately enjoyable and a "would go back for it" quality item. Fluffy, skillfully seasoned eggs and properly al dente black beans dominate this dish, and chorizo is much more of a welcome side-note than a dominant, meatball style 800-pound-gorilla of a filling.
As an added bonus, the restaurant dishes up a dish of guacamole on the side along with salsa. Is the guacamole standard-issue, Sysco-style stuff? Sure. Is it fun to have available as a topping/dipping option? Hell yes. -JN
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
#3: Fireroast Cafe
Breakfast Burrito with Chorizo | $10 | Available daily
A longtime neighborhood corner store, Fireroast dates back to the turn of the millennium as a neighborhood coffee shop. Current owner Jeff Fisher took it over in 2012 after the previous owners moved away, and is exactly the kind of chatty sole proprietor you'd picture operating such a place. In his tenure he's made slow and steady improvements to the space, most notably converting the small side parking lot into a patio that about doubles the cafe's seating during warmer weather. He's also spruced up the menu with offerings somewhere in between "restaurant food" and "coffee shop food," and added beer and wine.
The approach seems to work: On our Saturday mid-morning visit the place was effectively standing room only (we quickly learned that the two window bar seats we snagged were empty for a reason, given the angle of the 10 o'clock sun). From that perch near the cash register, we could hear Jeff and a great number of customers address each other by name and banter in a way that suggests frequent patronage — a green flag for any neighborhood cafe. -LW
Notes for the Fireroast Cafe breakfast burrito look like they're about some other dish entirely; words like "elegant," "balanced," and "wholesome" aren't typically what you'd attach to what is generally a massive agglomeration of meat and cheese. As it is, Fireroast's burrito is a little more subtle than the norm. It’s almost more of a desert Southwest take on a burrito, with properly cooked and seasoned beans and rice leading the charge in terms of flavor and texture, with the proteins playing a softly spoken supporting role.
Appropriate levels of heat and seasoning help round this out into a legitimately satisfying and surprisingly light start to the day. –JN
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
#2 Tacos El Primo
Breakfast Burrito with Chorizo | $13.50 | Available daily
There have been a variety of Mexican and Puerto Rican food operations inside the convenience store at 39th and Minnehaha over the years, but Tacos El Primo took it to the next level when the food truck operation took over the entire storefront in 2020. The result is an atmosphere that isn't striking but is more than serviceable. The ambiance comes less from the pragmatic decor and furnishings — until recently, the graphics on the table coverings said "Coffee - Sample Text" — than the friendly staff and often large groups dining together.
The menu is absolutely huge, spread across several posters and screens in tiny print, encompassing everything from tacos and burritos to pozole and shrimp soup. And yet, it apparently still doesn't capture the breadth of their offerings, since they whipped us up a breakfast burrito that we'd heard about but wasn't listed anywhere. We were glad we asked. -LW
Light, almost delicate chorizo is just one of two main surprises hiding within El Primo's breakfast burrito. The other is a creamy, crunchy layer of sour cream and lettuce that contrasts with the warm eggs, cheese and meat. Normally we wouldn't expect lettuce to remain crispy or cool in this application, but the contrast was both distinct and welcome, providing lightness and textural entertainment. In total, this is a legitimately tasty and thoughtful spin on the dish, accented further by two housemade salsas served out of molcajetes located near the cash register. –JN
Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
#1: Longfellow Grill
Breakfast Burrito with Sausage | $16.80 | Available daily
Longfellow Grill marked the start of a new era on this end of Lake Street when it opened in 2004, anchoring the ground floor of the West River Commons project, the area's first major mixed-use development of the new millennium.
It was the third restaurant in an upstart local chain named Blue Plate Restaurant Company's portfolio that has since grown to seven across the metro. And, like most chains, its value lies in its broad appeal, the type of place you can bring a mix of people (like, say, colleagues or extended family) and expect that no one will be let down. It's not hip nor bleeding edge, and doesn't pretend to be. In the East Lake Checklist, Heavy Table described it as "flawlessly satisfactory, perfectly average, extraordinarily OK."
But there are at least two things that are exceptional about Longfellow Grill. The first is its patio, which wraps around the building and looks toward the river gorge, buffered from the road by a public plaza and a 26-foot bronze statue from then-neighborhood sculptor Andreal Mykelbust. The second, funny enough, is the breakfast burrito. -LW
Longfellow Grill, which we have known for years for its "serviceable" and "OK choices for everyone" approach to food legitimately surprised us with this dish. It's a master class in how to let creamy, slightly browned hashbrowns serve as the base layer for your burrito, letting other ingredients (beans, sliced up breakfast links, cheese, eggs) shine through in a mellow and balanced way.
It's softly spoken, gently seasoned without being under, and one bite naturally leads to the next because the whole experience is so cheerful and encouraging and tasty. We can imagine a better breakfast burrito than this one, but only with difficulty; it's really a nicely balanced and enjoyable dish. -JN
Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
FOOTNOTES
[1] WRITER’S NOTE: Blue Door had two hot sauces on offer: we chose Sriracha over Tabasco, and it was fine. That said, we would've really enjoyed something house made, or something like Tapatio, Cry Baby Craig’s, or even Frank's Hot Red. -JN
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I had the exact same surprised reaction to the Longfellow Grill breakfast burrito.
In my opinion, when a Minnesota breakfast burrito fails, it's almost always due to entirely too much bland egg.
The best breakfast burrito I ever had was from a food truck at the base of a backwater ski hill in California. It was a fresh tortilla, and contained only potatoes, chorizo, and a bright green salsa. It was criminally salty, which I did not consider a flaw. I still think about it.