u/oakman26

I tried the ($16, weekends through 2pm only) Border Town breakfast burrito at Border Town in Greenpoint yesterday and it was so good I had to go back today (and take some pics cuz my phone was acting up yday)

The main selling point IMO is the fresh homemade tortilla. Super soft and stretchy with a bit of niceeeeee char.

Comes with Egg, bacon, potato, refried beans, caramelized onion / jalapeno, and queso chihuahua.

The green salsa is very refreshing and light, the red salsa is rich and spicy and flavorful, both are amazing.

I definitely intend on going back even more to try the Chorizo burrito and revisit the tacos (I've had their tacos in the popup days but not recently).

To compare it with some other breakfast burritos:

- The texture inside is nice and wet and gooey similar to SF BK (not similar to Mama Yoshi which is pretty dry inside) (not similar to Little flower which is sopping wet with pico de gallo juice and white crema [cold and unnecessary])

- I really like the potato / beans / white cheese / green salsa combo, similar to my previous favorite Jessi's coffee shop.

- Places that make fresh tortillas. This burrito is better than Vato or Los Burritos Juarez IMO.

pics 1-3: Julias
pic 4: Normas

Julia's sandwich was $11 and definitely big, the biscuit was like 25% bigger than the ones at norma's I'd say. The biscuit tasted good / the same, was a bit more light and crumbly I'd say, I could only "sandwich" it for like 60% of it then I had to go knife and fork mode.

Julia's also has your choice of egg (over easy/medium/hard, scrambled) instead of those baked disc eggs that they did at Norma's, this was always something that annoyed me about Norma's. I would not recommend getting anything runny though, that was my mistake.

IMO Normas sandwiches had slightly better/higher proportion of meat to bread, but I could get used to the difference. Also I didn't realize Julias had spicy bacon otherwise I would have gotten that.

cc u/patrickdoran1