These days, you’ll find abreakfast burritoon the menu practically anywhere that serves breakfast.
(See if the number one pick surprises youit certainly wasn’t what I expected!)
As you might expect, its breakfast burrito is dubbed the meat lovers burrito.
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This is one of the few fast-food restaurants that offers breakfast all day.
This burrito comes standard with a side of fire-roasted tomato salsa, which helps offset the salty meat.
The burrito was $5.99.
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Not cheap, but not too expensive either.
The look:Its substantial size helps to justify the price.
This was the only size option, but I’d call it medium-sized.
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The egg and sausage have a nice flavor, but the hot sauce is essential as seasoning is lacking.
There’s no salt, pepper, chili, or other spicesjust the egg and meat patties.
It’s like eating a sausage egg breakfast sandwich placed inside a tortilla instead of between two buns.
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Eventually, I tasted the bacon and the cheese, but bites with sausage and bacon were overwhelming.
I’d prefer one or the other.
The website says the burrito also includes ham, but mine didn’t have any.
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This could be a regional thing or a mistake.
If it had ham on it, I think I would’ve liked it even less.
Potatoes or some other vegetable for balance would’ve been nice.
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If you get this burrito, the salsa is a necessary editionthere’s a reason it comes standard.
The breakfast burrito comes in two sizes at my Burger King, which is the extent of the choice.
The smaller one is $3.99.
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A layer of melty cheese and egg patty peek out attractively.
For this tasting, I went with the smaller option.
The tortilla was warm but stiff.
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The tater tots had a good taste of fat, and the egg had a nice consistency.
Biting into a sausage patty inside a burrito is an unexpected experience.
The egg and sausage were not mixed at all.
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This was the only breakfast burrito option at my location, and it was priced at $5.99.
The look:The tortilla is a nice rectangular shape.
There are some brown spots, but it’s not too grilled.
Some egg and cheese peek out of the corner, and it’s a great size.
The taste:Even on the first bite, there’s a lot of bacon.
This is chewy bacon, not crisp, along with a cheese sauce.
But instead, they stuck with a much more standard egg and sausage option.
My location was out of the steak, so I tried the sausage.
The grill also helps keep it in a tight cylinder.
This was the only burrito I tried that looked like it had been grilled.
This one is a medium size, maybe a little smaller.
I added some mild sauce after a few bites, which helped.
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Since regular nuggets are Chick-fil-A’s original specialty, I decided to order them.
There was a nice jalapeno sauce on the side, and it came out to $7.05.
The look:A few brown spots on the tortilla show that it was heated up.
It was flexible and not so thick that you only taste the tortilla in spots.
The eggs were OK; not the rubbery, powdered kind, but not very fresh.
The lower half of the burrito is where the chicken and cheese were.
At just $2.99, this one is a steal, even if it’s on the smaller side.
The pork sausage also has a sharp spice that I wasn’t expecting.
Melted American cheese blended in well with the soft and fluffy eggs.
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Del Taco’s additional steak option instead of just bacon or sausage immediately gave the burrito an edge.
All the options were around the same price, within 20 to 30 cents of each other.
The taste:The steak in this burrito tasted great and was the most dominant flavor.
There was hot sauce inside already, and the egg consistency was good.
The fillings were mixed well between the steak and eggs, and the meat didn’t taste tough.
My expectations can be low for fast-food beef, but this one tasted good.
My one quibble is that the burrito was not quite balanced because of all the hot sauce.
Despite liking the additional flavor, I could’ve done with slightly less hot sauce inside.
Another plus is that this was real cheese, not cheese sauce, and it melted really well.
It was $6.29, and the higher price felt justified because of the steak.
The look:Honestly, this one is a nice size.
Not a lot of browning on the tortilla, and it was very soft.
The taste:After my first bite, I literally said, “Oh my God!”
That was a first and only for me during this taste test.
The steak was well-seasoned, with the onions and tomatoes from the pico de gallo salsa meshing perfectly.
I would order this again!
But this didn’t taste like a fast-food burrito; it tasted more like restaurant quality.
It immediately shot up to the top of the list and remained there.
Carl’s Jr. beat out Del Taco, Taco Bell, and even Chick-fil-A with this excellent option.
