On the Richmond Burrito Trail: 23rd Street’s La Estrella Taqueria & Food Truck
The Grandview Independent has been embarking on a culinary adventure to explore every taqueria, food truck, and restaurant in Richmond.
A burrito is not a dish best-served cold.
On a cold and rainy day, we were on the hunt for something warm and comforting. We headed to the bright orange La Estrella Taqueria on 23rd Street, across from McDonald's.
La Estrella Taqueria is sandwiched between Cassandra’s Wedding Cakes & Beyond and the Terraces at Nevin. When we stepped into this colorful restaurant at lunchtime, we found it abandoned. Really, there was not a soul insight. There were no customers or employees. We crept past a welcome sign imploring us to use a self-ordering system and scanned the menu plastered high on the back wall.
Eventually, an employee emerged from the back, took our order, and disappeared back into the kitchen. The day was cold and overcast, a tomatoey, saucy chicken kind of day. We ordered a Super Shredded Chicken Burrito.
When we returned to Grandview Headquarters and sliced into our tubular lunch, we were happy to see nice big chunks of saucy chicken. Unfortunately, everything was lukewarm. It was so not hot that we had to reheat our burrito. Once we nuked the burrito, the cheese melted, and the slab came alive.
The now piping hot burrito was filled with an excellent ratio of chicken, sour cream, pico de gallo, rice, and pinto beans. The queso fresco we made gooey with our microwave skills was a tasty surprise. The pinto beans were OK but refried would have held everything together a bit better, and the individual beans wouldn’t have popped out on our plate.
So this take-n-bake burrito comes with two good spicy, herby salsa that enlivens the 708-gram shredded chicken burrito. Add some therms, and the $13.54 would be great in our fifteen-dollar burrito world.
Let us know where to eat next, and check back next week for another stop on the Richmond Burrito Trail.
The Grandview Independent has been embarking on a culinary adventure to explore every taqueria, food truck, and restaurant in Richmond. This initiative dubbed the “Richmond Burrito Trail,” aims to showcase our city’s diverse and delectable burritos.
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