The Burrito: From Juarez to the World
The burrito is definately one of the classic mexican foods, at least for us who live in the north. The burrito consists of a flour tortilla that is wrapped around whatever food you decided to fill it with. The most common fillings are of meat, beans and cheese...actually, almost all of the burritos include beans because they kind of are the base of it, but there are certainly a lot of combinations for the fillings. Oh and if you buy a burrito outside of Mexico, it probably isnt a burrito.
Although the origin of the name "burrito" is still unknown, this is the official story for the creation of the burritos and how they obtained their name: From the times of the mexican revolution (from 1910 to 1921), there was a man that had a buisness in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico. His name was Juan Mendez and he had a food stand. He had the ingenious idea of making big wheat flour tortillas and filling them up with his food (which he wanted to keep warm) and then covering them up with towels to keep them hot. Apparently he had so much deliveries to make, that he decided to buy a donkey to carry his food. Burrito literally means "little donkey". So with time his food became so famous that people started coming from everywhere to try the food of the little donkey...and so the "burrito" was born as a typical food of Ciudad Juarez.
Burritos Crisostomo is probably the most famous place in Ciudad Juarez to eat Burritos. Most of the places in Ciudad Juarez offer the same prices and same choices for your burritos, so the menus are pretty much alike.
Burritos Crisostomo, has earned for some reason the best reputation from them all. Their burritos are in fact quite good and they have several locations where you can go buy burritos to take home or to eat there.
So if you ever come to Ciudad Juarez, this is definately one of the best options for eating Burritos, and believe me...you must eat them at least once. The only problem with Burritos Crisostomo is that they're so famous, they usually close very early because they run out of food to sell, so you'll probably be better off eating them for breakfast.
Out of them all, El Burrotote its probably my favourite place to eat burritos. Most of the places in Ciudad Juarez have the same menus for burritos.
El Burrotote differs from the rest of the Burrito selling places in the fact that it is just one place, and not a series of establishments, and that makes them unique. Also this places makes honor to its name because they sell BIG burritos.
El Burrotote means the big donkey as opposed to burrito which means small donkey. So when you go there, you can expect to eat bigger and better burritos than the ones you can buy elsewhere. I rated this place as exceptional instead of good (like I rated the others) because they simple are my favourite place to eat burritos...just because they're BIG.
