Ryan and I were in the Cleveland Park neighborhood Wednesday afternoon to go to PetsMart and stopped in first for lunch at California Tortilla. California Tortilla is a locally-owned chain of Mexican fast food restaurants (with no stores at all in California, to my knowledge) in the same vein as Chipotle, Baja Fresh, and so forth, featuring several Mexican-American items, but concentrating particularly on oversized burritos.
Ryan had the crunchy BBQ ranch burrito, a barbecued chicken thing, but I've no idea what made it "crunchy." It included the usual lettuce, rice, and beans, and he seemed to like it a lot.
I got a very unusual "gyros burrito." Yes, gyros. Those of you who've been to a Greek restaurant have seen and maybe eaten gyros sandwiches on pita bread before. This was a rather unique burrito made with all the standard Mexican stuff, but also with gyros meat (a lamb blend) and bits of feta cheese. I'm not quite sure of my opinion; the gyros meat works, but the feta has a zing to it that is inconsistent with the normal zang of Mexican items.
We both had our burritos made into "combos" for the drinks and the queso dip. I liked the cheese flavor, but it was definitely "processed cheese food," rather than real melted cheese. One of the unique things about the restaurant is an enormous display of hot pepper sauces from which patrons can choose, should they like a fieryer spice.
They gave each of us a free sample of their turkey chili. It was good! There was a nice balance of flavor and light spice, and the turkey could almost pass for beef. It is something I might actually buy as a free standing entree on a future visit.
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