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Apparently award-winning, Barburitto is part of a complex of "worker's-lunch" places that's sprung up around Manchester's renovated Picadilly Gardens. Taqueria el Balazo is a San Francisco institution. I ate there first over a decade ago and even if I was a local I doubt I'd be bored with it by now.
Lunch at Barburitto was £5.75 ($11.50) for a small burrito with horrid, pastly corn chips and a fountain soda. Lunch at Balazo was $6.95 for a Carne Asada burrito with rice, beans and fresh salsa. Served with chips and cabbage salad, a fountain soda was $1.65 extra.
What is there to say? In terms of taste Balazo handed Barburrito it's donkey ass. Barburrito's combination of a salsa that even in it's spiciest offering was anemic and lousy, hard tortilla chips as a side were damning, even if the buritto itself was just about ok, if understuffed.
Balazo's portions are a work of art: just enough. And the flavours are the kind you come back for, as is the spiffy "folk-art" decor.
A knockout to Balazo.
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