Chipotle, One of Life’s Simple Pleasures

Aside from absorbing the sights and sounds of the Big Apple, and as lame as it sounds, one of the things I look forward to every week is having lunch at Chipotle on 26th St and 7th Avenue. Its closeness to the office and Penn Station is also an added plus when scarfing down a burrito for dinner and then booking it up 7th Avenue to catch a scatty NJ Transit train back home. But for the most part, it’s a lunch affair. I usually end of going to Chipotle by myself because it ends up that everyone in the office has gone there 2-3 times already in the week and wants to change things up. Granted it’s another chain of fast food restaurants, but a very good one at that. Of course, when you’re talking about a restaurant chain in a food capital as New York City with every cuisine represented and every palette satisfied, to the eyes of your typical New Yorker, you’d probably be seen as a tasteless simpleton. But I don’t care, their burritos are delicious and I can get them very quick.

Unfortunately, Chipotle is nowhere to be found in the King of Prussia area, yet alone in Philly or PA for that matter. I need my burrito fix but can’t wait for New York so doing some Google Local action yielded a Baja Fresh in KOP so I think I’ll be go there for lunch later today. I haven’t had experience with either Baja Fresh or Qdoba, though Gast has had nothing but praise for Baja Fresh as everything is made fresh with nothing coming out of a can or being microwaved, just like Chipotle.  I’m looking forward to it and I’ll be sure to followup with my findings.

These places make Taco Bell look like it’s food for the impoverished, though I admit to enjoying it every once in a while.  Smitty’s particularly fond of the 7-Layer Burrito!