Where to Eat the Best, Cheapest and Fastest Vegetarian Burritos in Parker, Colorado

The town of Parker boasts some great Mexican restaurants, but sometimes you just want a quick burrito for a grab and grub, so here reviewed is the fastest, cheapest, tastiest, vegetarian burritos in town. Why vegetarian? Well cause I can’t claim a valid critique of the meaty variety, but its all in the wrap anyway and if the vegetarian ones are good, the meat ain’t far behind. The 3 main Burrito joints in Parker are Qdoba, Chipotle and El Azteca. While they may be nothing new to one who knows their burrito fare, never assume a vegetarian knows where to eat. Now if for a vegan or a non-lactose vegetarian, least not forget that cheese is an essential part of the Mexican burrito equation. Qdoba and Chipotle make everything right before your eyes at the burrito bar, so just hold on the cheese. At El Azteca you’ll have to request the back kitchen hold the cheese and reinforce it to be on the safe side.

As far as selection, El Azteca and Qdoba have a least two-burrito menu choices, whereas Chipotle only has one. Qdoba has a basic veggie burrito with choice of beans, rice, pico de gallo, roasted chille corn salsa, guacamole and hot sauces. Not a bad option, but if you want true veggie sustenance the Grilled Vegetable Burrito with red peppers, squash, zucchini, and a garlic herb seasoning. Toss some rice and beans in that baby and you got a high-end burrito for only 30 cents more than the Vegetarian Burrito. Qdoba, like Chipotle offers up that speed factor, and on a good day your talking about a burrito in 1 minute, wrapped and packed. While there may be a hold up at the cash register, cause the line moves so fast, it satisfies a rushed state of mind.

Chipotle is a classic burrito that has stayed tastefully basic despite a wave of stock options in a wildfire chain-store explosion. The Vegetarian Burrito at Chipotle boasts guacamole as making it veg-friendly, but plain ole beans and rice just don’t cut it. Just because a burrito doesn’t have meat, doesn’t make it vegetarian, that just makes it boring. The fajitas at Chipotle have sautÃ?©ed peppers and onions, toss that in a wrap on the beans and rice with some hot sauce and that’s more like it.

Now the take all goes to El Azteca’s Chille Relleno Burrito and note the shock when asked if you want it smothered in green chili. Sounds great, but experience says Green Chili equals pork. What’s this? Its’ vegetarian? El Azteca gets no-pork props for keeping it green. They have another vegetarian burrito and bean burritos, but the Chille Relleno is worth the try. Though this is a wait in nanosecond terms, and the minute longer it may take over Chipotle or Qdoba is worth every morsel. Though Chille Relleno is usually stuffed with cheese, so if dairy isn’t your ball game, sit that one out.

All burritos are under $6 – yet another benefit to the vegetarian diet and El Azteca is under $5. El Azteca is located on the corner of the strip Mall at the King Soopers shopping center at Lincoln and Jordan Road, 17051 E. Lincoln Ave. Chipotle is at the shopping center at Main Street and Dransfeld, 18701 E Main St. Qdoba is in the Home Depot shopping center off Parker Road and Twenty Mile Road, 11215 S Parker Rd. Parker did have its very own Blue Iguana Mexcian resturant, which had at one time the best vegetarian burrito in Parker, but it got washed away by Chain domination in the suburbs. As mentioned, Parker also serves up some good vegetarian dishes at scattered Mexican restaurants, but that’s another experience beyond nanoseconds.