Mobissimo

Next time you're in Berlin and craving something different to eat from the normal German fare, try a Mission Burrito. For those of you not familiar with this culinary masterpiece, Mission burritos are famous for not only their girth, but their variety (Burrito Easter has sampled 913 different Mission Burritos) and value. Wrapped in an extra large tortillas you'll find everything from tongue to brain to pork. Basically anything that can be eaten from a cow, chicken, or pig can be found wrapped up along side rice, beans, salsa, guac, cheese, sour cream. If it sounds like a recipe for food coma, you're right. And a delightful coma at that. While some chains like Chipotle, have tried to co-opt and franchise the Mission Burrito, truly the Mission Neighborhood in San Francisco remains the only authentic place to enjoy these delectables. That being said, copying is the sincerest form of flattery, and we encourage the upstarts around the world attempting to spread the Mission Burrito love around the world. One such establishment, Doloros Burrito in the Alexenderpltaz section of Berlin, evidently does a decent job. So say the experts.

For Berlin, a town awash with underwhelming cheap culinary experiences, Dolores’ burritos are a godsend. They’re big, and full of fresh and diverse ingredients that are guaranteed to induce a classic burrito coma.

The San Francisco burrito connoisseur shouldn’t go in expecting exactly the same experience as back home. Rather than the traditional assortment found at most Bay Area taquerias, at Dolores you simply order up a burrito and then hand-select ingredients. First, the salsa. Then the rice, beans and cheese.

The tortillas are served warm, but a bit soft and not exactly like back home. And the beans lack the savory juice of Pancho Villa or Farolito.

Of course, it’s optional to add your choice of flavored tofu or meat. Secret tip: Ask for the off-menu whole wheat tortilla. It’s free.

But for many, even Bay Area transplants, Dolores burritos are a reasonable stand-in for the real deal by the Bay. Cory Vielma, video curator for a Web-based network NetworkAwesome, lived in The City for 12 years:

Via SF Bay.

 

Megabus launched it's affordable bus service to great fanfare in 2006, offering city to city bus travel in double decker buses, free Wi-Fi, power outlets and thankfully, restrooms. They continue to roll into new markets, starting June 19, Megabus is expanding into Texas and the southern United States. Bus lovers in Dallas, Houston, and San Antonio, Texas, will be able to travel as far away as New Orleans for prices as low as as $1.

The title reminds us of the movie Elf, starring Will Ferrell, when he says to character Miles Finch, played by Peter Dinklage, who is now everywhere thanks to Game of Thrones, "You're an angry little elf." Was that a run-on sentence? Anyway, interesting article in CNN exploring whether people, elves and taller travelers alike, are getting angrier on airplanes. The statistics seem to say so, reported instances of unruly fliers rose 29% internationally between 2009 and 2010. Two top causes of bad behavior? Alcohol and cell phones. Lesson here? Yes, stay away from drinkers on cell phones. Read the whole article on CNN.