Mission burrito
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The Mission burrito is San Francisco's defining sandwich: a giant flour tortilla packed with rice, beans, meat, salsa and sometimes cheese or sour cream, foil-wrapped to the table; in United States we have verified places to eat it in San Francisco. Start with where to eat Mission burrito in San Francisco.

Mission burrito · San Francisco

The Mission burrito is San Francisco's defining sandwich: a giant flour tortilla packed with rice, beans, meat, salsa and sometimes cheese or sour cream, foil-wrapped to the table.

The shape was set in the late 1960s on 24th Street. Febronio Ontiveros at El Faro on Folsom is widely credited with the 1961 rice-and-foil package; La Cumbre on Valencia popularised the same wrap a few blocks west. The Mission style differs from a Sonoran burrito in three ways: rice is inside, the tortilla is steamed before rolling and the package is overstuffed to the point that the foil is structural. By the 1980s the form had spread from 24th Street to college towns across the country; Chipotle's founder Steve Ells trained in San Francisco before he opened his first room in Denver in 1993. The burrito is the rare American dish with a specific birth address.

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