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The mystery surrounding the sudden closing of the city's Burritovilles continues with today's NY Times not being able to find many more answers than when we reported their disappearance Thursday. The Times talks to various New Yorkers who lament the restaurant's departure, including one top notch host who had been planning to stop by Burritoville tonight "because we're having guests." As for detractors, the Times looked no further than Gothamist commenters from Thursday's post. The paper does add that a Burritoville rep claims some restaurants should reopen in two weeks and that the chain's closing was news to its employees who showed up to work with no notice that its doors wouldn't open. The blog Supervegan hopes that those employees won't get screwed out of a paycheck as they claim workers did when Veg-City Diner (owned by the founders of Burritoville) also suddenly shut its doors back in 2003.
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Haha, awesome that the Times ganked from your comments. Burritoville really does suck. It is awful enough that I don't feel remotely bad about it shutting down. Why can't we get some real burritos in this town? They're not that difficult but somehow we wind up with the overdone crap of Burritoville instead of the ultra-simple real good Mexican. Chipotle actually has the right idea although I find their execution is fatally flawed.
It's not exactly earth-shattering news when restaurants go out of business. It has been known to happen.
@#1:
what is your issue with Chipotle?
and yes, we know it's not authentic Mexican, but for what it is, it's good.
stores are clean, the assembly line works well, the people that work there are generally a lot better than other quick serve restaurants, and the food is good.
It's not exactly earth-shattering news when bad restaurants go out of business.
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Chipotle, hahahahahahahahaha
@#3:
My problem with Chipotle is that they focus on "high quality" ingredients instead of authentic ingredients. I want my Mexican to taste like Mexican, not like Whole Foods. I do eat at Chipotle because they have the best burritos I've found here. But they are a mile beneath any burrito shack in SoCal (yes, I used to live there and got terribly spoiled by all-hand-made burritos for $2).
I still miss Veg-City Diner on 14th St...it was 24 hours too! Sigh.
Burritos are gross. They have the same density and texture of a dead, shaven Guinea Pig. The salsa and guacamole only help add to this hypothesis.
Maybe they need a government bail-out.
@8 Yeah, I can't believe that Veg City couldn't make a decent run. The food was great, they had booze and it was always packed.
LOL @ #7 for actually complaining that Chipotle's ingredients are too high quality. Some people just can't seem to find enough ridiculous crap to bitch about...
come to sunset park bitches, the best mexican food in nyc.
thank god. that place blew.
I could give a damn whether it was authentic Mexican. I loved Burritoville and I was a regular at the one on 23rd street and 8th Avenue. It was the Forgotten NY home away from home.
It's that Bloomberg and his healthy food obsession, I'm quite sure. I'm not getting in line with his broccoli and tofu initiatives. Fight the power.
www.forgotten-ny.com
"It's that Bloomberg and his healthy food obsession, "
I agree.
The food fascists are on the march! Government mandated jogging will be next.
the only thing good was there salsa. When did burritoes start comeing shaped as a ball of dough? how the hell im supposed to fit that in my mouth?
There website is now down.
What NYC needs are burrito trucks that sell the real thing and park where you work. If we can have upscale ice cream trucks, we can have burrito trucks. How hard is it?