Where to eat Breakfast burrito in San Luis Obispo: 2 editor picks
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Eggs, potatoes, cheese and salsa rolled tight in a flour tortilla, the default California morning. San Luis Obispo's versions fuel surf runs, lectures and Saturday queues alike.
The breakfast burrito spread north from Southern California's taquerias in the 1970s and became the Central Coast's portable morning meal, equally at home in delis, cafes and surf-town counters. In San Luis Obispo it is a genre of its own: Sally Loo's rolls a locally sourced version with its cult sally sauce by the railroad tracks, and Lincoln Market's Almost Famous Breakfast Burrito has fed the Broad Street corner since morning-deli hours began there.
Sally Loo's Wholesome Cafe has fed San Luis Obispo's Railroad District since 2009, baking in-house each morning inside a 1930s storefront by the depot.
TipThe walk-up window sells coffee and pastries without the queue; the breakfast burrito earns its following.
Lincoln Market & Deli, a 1941 corner store on Broad Street, stacks sandwiches like the Pastrami Sensation for San Luis Obispo families and Cal Poly students.
OrderThe Pastrami Sensation on Dutch crunch, plus a fresh-baked cookie.
TipMorning pastries come from Back Porch Bakery and the coffee is Joebella; go early for the breakfast burrito.
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