Breakfast at Chipotle
Prior to my trip back to the US, I had already planned on going to Chipotle to eat breakfast. This is the ONLY Chipotle location in the world to serve breakfast. I had read on some food blogs that it's because Dulles airport required them to serve breakfast. I've seen that happen at other fast food restaurants that don't usually serve breakfast, but they tend to serve really generic "scrambled eggs" (from a carton) and bacon, that sort of thing.
But Chipotle being Chipotle, they decided to make it a real breakfast menu. You can choose taco, burrito, or breakfast bowl which includes "crispy potatoes" on the bottom. For meat choices you have the regular chicken, carnitas, and a new chorizo option. There's also a spicy pepper and onion relish/salsa on offer.
This Chipotle is a lot more upscale-looking than every other Chipotle I've been to in the past. Perhaps this is the design for new Chipotles.
I went with the breakfast bowl with chorizo, and the spicy pepper and onion salsa, to try all of the new stuff (but also because I love breakfast potatoes and chorizo). I have to say I'm disappointed. First of all the serving vehicle is this paper soup bowl which is relatively small. Definitely not as filling as Chipotle usually is. Secondly, either the potatoes were not crispy to begin with, or they got wet after all of the salsas and the beans were put on top, but they were plain soggy. A redeeming element was the eggs, which were not scrambled from a carton (and very hard and rubbery), but they were soft and flavorful, scrambled from fresh-cracked eggs.
