On the Richmond Burrito Trail: completing the La Flor de Jalisco triad
Richmond Burrito Trail returns to 23rd Street for a Super Carne Asada Burrito from La Flor de Jalisco.
We’ve now finished the La Flor de Jalisco Food Truck Triad. So, there are three La Flor de Jalisco Food Trucks in Richmond. You can get good burritos from Two of them. The Third used to have the best burritos in Richmond, but nowadays, it serves up — well, we shouldn’t call them burritos anymore. Maybe “Rice Wraps” is a better description.
There was a 140-comment thread on Nextdoor complaining about the Rice Burrito from La Flor de Jalisco on Macdonald Avenue, which looks like a geode cut open with a small piece of steak inside. We tried to warn you last year how far this mighty burrito purveyor had fallen.
Soren Hemmila
La Flor de Jalisco’s food truck on San Pablo, on the other hand, is a good place to eat a burrito. In fact, it is one of Grandview staffer’s favorite Richmond burritos. Scary as it sounds, we don’t even write about all the burritos we eat.
Soren Hemmila
This week’s stop on the Richmond Burrito Trail takes us back to 23rd Street, where the closer you look, the more taquerias and food trucks you see. Jalisco’s food truck is easy to miss, tucked way back from 23rd Street next to the Launderland Coin-Op Laundry. It is partially obscured by trees and parked cars.
Following a long ride, we pulled up to Jalisco mid-afternoon and were unusually hungry. Two customers were arguing through the takeout window over limes and a really complicated request for how to distribute salsas and carrots in their to-go bags. They were getting miffed. Maybe they had the zanahorias en escabeche before and knew how good it was. They are probably the same carrots as the other locations.
We ordered a Super Burrito and were recommended the steak again, so we went with it. We peddled our burrito back to Grandview Headquarters. It felt not heavy or light but was in the range of burrito size acceptability. When we weighed it, it came to 691 grams, just a smidge under our ideal slab weight.
The Super Steak Burrito was filled with big meat-forward flavors. The steak was chopped small, complemented by onion and cilantro, again with the lack of tomatoes. We’ve had a long run of tomatoless burritos. Was this on purpose? It is winter, and a bland, out-of-season tomato would probably just weigh the burrito down with watery nothingness. Some rice, melty cheese, sour cream, and refried beans round out the tubular delight. We said some rice– not an arroz bomb you get from other places.
None of the La Flor de Jalisco locations offer guacamole, which was definitely missed on a Super Slab. A little Guac would move them to a new burrito tier, but we really enjoyed this burrito otherwise. It has a solid mix of ingredients that let the meaty star of the show shine. Our experiment might have been a little compromised since we were so hungry.
A word about beans
Some taquerias tend to whiz up their refried beans to an almost liquid state that we are not always a fan of. It can work in some burritos like La Bamba’s where the moisture is welcome and can turn even a regular burrito juicy.
On the end of the spectrum are supremely unwelcome chalky beans, as if they weren’t cooked enough but mashed up anyhow. We do not like those. At all.
If we are going to Goldilocks our beans, we like ’em when they are not too liquid but also not pasty. We usually describe them as creamy. So, a really beanie flavor enriched with some fatty goodness (cover your ears: l-a-r-d) that holds the burrito together and makes the world go round.
We asked for the spicy red sauce and very much enjoyed it since we are a sucker for rich chili pepper and oregano flavor in our salsas. This was different from the San Pablo Avenue salsa. It was mildly spicy but really brought out the best of the burrito when we splashed it everywhere. We could forgo the little plastic containers and ask the wrap artists to sauce our burritos before rolling.
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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