Breakfast Burrito appears as a signature dish in 1 United States cities. See each city's local variant and where to eat it.
The LA breakfast burrito · Los Angeles
A foil-wrapped flour tortilla packed with eggs, hash browns, cheese, bacon or chorizo and salsa. The Eastside corner-shop morning meal of Los Angeles.
The breakfast burrito in its current LA form, scrambled eggs, hash browns or tater tots, cheese, bacon or chorizo, salsa, wrapped in a flour tortilla and foiled, took shape in the 1970s in East LA panaderias and corner shops. Al & Bea's on First Street has been making them since 1966; Cofax on Fairfax updated the format with chorizo verde in the 2010s. The defining feature is structural: every ingredient is hot and cooked separately, then layered hot so the tortilla never goes soggy. A real LA breakfast burrito is eaten foil-on, peeling back as you go, in the car on the way somewhere.
Where to eat in Los Angeles:
- Al & Bea's Mexican Food
- Cofax Coffee Shop
- Burritos La Palma
- Lucky Boy