Today is National Burrito Day and I waited just to try this Shredded Beef Birria Burrito from El Pollo Loco. I waited like 2 weeks just to try this today on April 7, 2022. Was it worth the wait? I’m going to say, “Sure, it was pretty yummy, but just too small for me.” I also just want to mention that as El Pollo Loco is a chicken place, I was impressed that the beef was pretty good. Anway lets begin:

Shredded Beef Birria Burrito Box

I got the large size combo box, and it came with:

  • Shredded Beef Birria Burrito
  • Birria Consome Dipping Sauce
  • Small Chips
  • 2 tiny sauces
  • spoon
  • napkins
  • Large Drink: Horchata

Overall, I’m pretty happy with all of the stuff that came in the box and the price was $11.09 without tax.

Birria Consome Dipping Sauce

What makes this burrito different is that it is served with Consome Dipping Sauce rather than traditional salsa. The Dipping Sauce is pretty warm and extremely salty. The taste is good and it tastes like soup broth rather than a dipping sauce to me. I know its made for dipping, but I like adding the sauce to the burrito instead. This way I can get all the ingredients from the sauce into the burrito. When dipping the burrito inside the sauce, pieces of the burrito falls in the sauce and it turns to some cool soup too. This sauce works in both ways dipping or not, its warm, good, but just too salty.

Just to mention that the leftover sauce can be used with the chips or on its own.

Beef Birria Burrito

The burrito is feels pretty big in size and I liked how the top and bottom have a burned spot. It is also pretty thick in size, however as big as it looks, it feels small when eating.

Burrito: 

  • 12″ Flour Tortilla
  • Cheese
  • Rice
  • Sour Cream
  • Cilantro
  • Beef Birria
  • Cabbage
  • Beans
  • Chopped Onions

As eating the burrito some of the ingredients were silent to me. The Sour Cream, Cabbage, and Cheese felt as if they were not in the burrito. Great tasting burrito and I might just get it again.

More Versions Available

There is a total of 3 versions of this Birria available:

  1. Quesadilla
  2. Crunchy Tacos
  3. Burrito

After trying the Burrito and finding it small for me, Next time I may just add extra 2 Tacos to make it complete. Happy National Burrito Day! I recommend trying this as its new and pretty good and different.

The Box

El Pollo Loco Birria Box

El Pollo Loco Birria Box

The box itself is pretty awesome as it motivates you to eat the yummy food. It makes me feel with joy opening the box to enjoy the burrito. On the box it says Dip, Eat, Repeat and I may just do it again. 🙂

Service 

I got this meal from the drive-thru and I was pretty upset as they forgot to give me some of my other items. I ordered Double Chicken Tostada Salad and they forgot the dressing. They seemed like they didn’t really want to serve me. I was going to ask for Salsa Roja, but with the service from Glendale I figured probably better if I didn’t.