SAN DIEGO – Born and raised in San Diego eating potato chip-filled California burritos and now recently launched a burrito-centric restaurant in New York City and the menu, in all its Southern California glory, is a toss-up for the palates. of those who are not of the golden state.
“Wait, the fries are on the burrito?”
That’s the most common question Alex Thaboua gets these days while at his new restaurant, the Electric Burrito NYC , which opened in mid-May with his friend and business partner Will Wyatt.
The little burrito restaurant, specializing in burritos and not your classic taco stand, is located at 81 St. Marks Pl. In the East Village of New York City. It’s already generating some buzz, so much so that Thaboua said they ran out of roast beef their first day in business and had to close down on the second day to catch up.
A San Diego native living in New York City has opened a burrito shop in the city’s East Village. The California burrito is the star, and Californians and non-Californians are into it.
Thaboua believes that the rumor has to do with what there is within of the burritos.
When business partners were first pitching their idea to their friends, Thaboua said they would hear the same reaction every time. Well, at least from people who are not from San Diego.
“All people, I’m not kidding, I thought it was a joke at first. It was crazy.” Thaboua said to our sister network NBC 7. “Every time we explained this project to someone, everyone would say, ‘Well, what’s the difference between a California burrito and a normal burrito?’ And I was like, ‘Well, a real California burrito has french fries in it.’
“Literally, everyone’s reaction, every person’s reaction, in this exact tone of voice he says, ‘Wait, potatoes? within of the burrito? ‘”
But Thaboua put her trust in the humble California donkey and the idea that it could bring the article, deeply regionally linked to San Diego and loved by San Diegans, to New York City.
He said that in New York, there are simply no good, authentic California burritos – at least none that he has found in the last decade.
“Each and every Californians here, north, south, whatever, wherever you are from in California, every time you meet someone from California, one of the first things you say is that there is no good food. Mexican, “Thaboua told NBC 7.
“There is very good Mexican cuisine, amazing and proper Mexican food, but every Californian who says that is saying there is no good burrito. There is just no burrito culture,” he added. But now, he said, there is.
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