Guest post by Todd Lappin/Telstar Logistics.
They’ve got Checkpoint Charlie. We’ve got Taqueria Cancun. We get our East Germany fix at Walzwerk, and now Berliners can get their San Francisco on at a new Mission-style burrito joint that just opened in Berlin:
The place is called Dolores, and apparently “They carry Anchor Steam and Negra Modelo!” Now that’s muy auténtico! The restaurant has gotten some coverage (in English) on Deutche Welle, which writes:
Having spent considerable time in California, the [founders of Dolores] compared notes and decided the city had a burrito gap just crying out to be filled by a fat tortilla stuffed with adobo beef, pinto beans and, yes, guacamole.
“I was in California for my job quite a lot and burritos were my favorite thing to eat there,” said Coenen, while describing the traditional Mexican dish.
“The food in San Francisco was a dream,” concurred Krahé. “In Berlin there’s not much to choose from except for döner and currywurst.”
via Mission Mission, with photos from oram.com
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I’m so glad somebody finally did this! I always thought that a place like this would be a natural for my people in Berlin. When I came up with this idea in 1989 I wanted it to be called Hans Gonzales.
Not that new, actually – DW reported on this joint in ‘05, and I mentioned it in a burrito-themed podcast.
Sounded terrific, so i checked it out the following year. I can’t say that what they served tasted “bad”, it just didn’t taste very much like something from the Mission. A bit like getting soy milk when you expect something from a cow, the meal might have been tastier if not for the name!
It was the Rosarita-canned-beans flavour that did it in, though … but I’ll be back in Berlin this June, and (in between gorging on currywurst and döner) give Dolores another try.
Burritos in Berlin?
Is this the World wide Hipster Gentrification Project?
Next it’ll be taco trucks in Amsterdam…….