If you’re a breakfast burrito fan, there’s no better pocket of Los Angeles to reside in than Pasadena.
There are formidable breakfast burritos to be devoured all over Greater Los Angeles and Orange County. Your favorite will always be the best, and I will contradict myself in about eight minutes when I tell you to head to Sawtelle for another a.m.-altering breakfast burrito. But with two Lucky Boy Burgers, a location of Wake and Late, two Dog Haus restaurants and the new BBAD, I’m drawn to the 626 area code when the need for a tortilla-wrapped potato, egg and cheese torpedo beckons. And it beckons often.
What makes a great breakfast burrito great, of course, is the insides, the way the melted cheese fuses with the crispy potatoes on a cushion of fluffy eggs. And the construction accounts for half of the burrito’s appeal. A good flour tortilla will make up for a litany of sins, including mushy potatoes. The ingredients should be properly distributed, a homogeneous blend without dry or empty pockets. And acid and moisture are key, often supplied by a pickled onion, jalapeño or dipping sauce…