OK, so last week I\u00a0ate something masquerading as a burrito at my desk.\u00a0 I have wiped this from my memory as the trauma was just stressing me out.\u00a0 Therefore, the burrito I have just eaten is the first burrito I’ve had at my desk at work.\u00a0 First things first, Dr Chimpington and myself really need to offer a ‘how to eat burritos in public’ master class.\u00a0 I am not convinced that there is a sophisticated way of doing this and I apologise to all my colleagues for the spectacle of watching me wrestle with a burrito. Dainty I aint.<\/p>\n
Recent research has revealed that there are burritos to be found near my place of work. \u00a0Picante Mexican Grill<\/a>. \u00a0This shop is teeny, tucked away in that bit of London that is neither Victoria nor Pimlico <\/em>near Strutton Ground & Channel 4 it’s probably not one you’d walk past on your way to somewhere.\u00a0 It’s blue and it has a Mexican skull on the sign – a Mexican skull with chillis for a ‘tache no less.\u00a0 I love Mexican art, it always cheers me up and reminds me of the day of the dead celebrations.<\/p>\n When I got inside the first thing I saw was shelves filled with lovely tins of La Costena jalapenos.\u00a0 These are the ones I ate when I was in Mexico and (until now) I have had to rely on my gorgeous friend Stevo\u00a0 to bring them back for me when he comes over to Blighty to visit.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t tell him I can get them now as I still want him to visit me. Selfish? Moi?<\/p>\n The choice of meat was too extensive for my teeny brain so I went for the grilled chicken one – on the off-chance that this place was bad I thought it’d be harder to fuck up grilled chicken.\u00a0 They also include sliced jalapenos. Most of the ones you get over here are a bit flacid and sadly the only place I normally see these beauties is Subway so I was chuffed to see them here as I could live on them. <\/p>\n They do the Chilango\/Chipotle\/ Subway \u00a0tried & tested style of assemblage here, one person starts you off and then the\u00a0 next person adds the extras and does the rolling.\u00a0 The woman rolling them was lovely but when I saw the burrito ahead of me falling apart mid fold* I was a bit worried about what was in store.<\/p>\n I needn’t have worried.\u00a0 Whilst her folding was a bit shambolic (and possibly one of the reasons that there was a large queue forming behind me, although it is more likely the queue was because there were burritos to be had!) the resulting burrito was far from shambolic.<\/p>\n And so, on to the burrito itself. I had the limey grilled chicken, black beans, salsa verde, cheese and jalapenos. Whereas the rice at Adobo was possibly too hard, the rice here was possibly a bit too soft but that’s a minor point because as a whole this was a thing of lovelieness. *they ‘rescued’ it by tipping it all onto a fresh tortilla.\u00a0 I guess that the flavours are all the same but I’d have been, perhaps a bit unreasonably, \u00a0a bit less than impressed if it had been mine.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, so last week I\u00a0ate something masquerading as a burrito at my desk.\u00a0 I have wiped this from my memory as the trauma was just stressing me out.\u00a0 Therefore, the burrito I have just eaten is the first burrito I’ve … Continue reading
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\nI am not sure it’s a good idea having burritos so close to work. Ah well, as long as I can still fit through the door all is fine<\/strong>!<\/p>\n