Breakfast burrito
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The Front Range's default morning meal: eggs, potatoes, cheese and often green chile in a flour tortilla, sold from 07:00 across Fort Collins counters.

The breakfast burrito is Colorado's morning vernacular, and Fort Collins wraps its own from opening bell. Big City Burrito rolls them from 07:00 on South College, Butterfly Cafe folds breakfast burritos in the Butterfly Building on Laporte Avenue, and Illegal Pete's runs weekend breakfast service until 13:00 with green chile on request. The dish suits the town's rhythm: portable, cheap, and equally at home before a lecture, a trailhead or a shift.

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Big City Burrito ★ 4.3

$MexicanMidtown

Big City Burrito wraps its famous potato burrito on South College Avenue in Fort Collins from 07:00, the original counter of a homegrown institution.

OrderThe potato burrito, smothered, with hot green chile

TipThe potato burrito smothered in green chile is the order that made the name; breakfast burritos run from opening.

Butterfly Cafe ★ 4.2

$$CaféOld Town

Butterfly Cafe bakes its own focaccia for breakfast sandwiches in the historic Butterfly Building on Laporte Avenue in Fort Collins, daily to 15:00.

TipThe focaccia breakfast sandwich is the order; house nut milks and made-in-house soups cover most diets without fuss.

Illegal Pete's ★ 4.1

$MexicanOld Town

Illegal Pete's builds mission-size burritos with a full bar on Walnut Street in Fort Collins, the Colorado indie chain that pays a living wage.

OrderA burrito with green chile and queso over the top

TipWeekend breakfast burritos run 09:00-13:00; Friday and Saturday the line serves until midnight with margaritas alongside.

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