El Pollo Loco sucks
Posted by marshall Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:49:00 GMT
They discontinued the Grilled Fiesta Burrito. It was perhaps the best burrito ever made (at least from a fast-food place), and now it's gone. The rest of the burritos at El Pollo Loco are lousy...nowhere near the same league.
It just depresses me to go there now. I've started steering people toward other options when they suggest it. Even thinking about it makes me sad.
I suppose I should have seen it coming. It seems that if I'm a fan of something, it's doomed to be removed from the menu. The Queso Live at On The Border. The Monte Cocoa and Strawberry Limone at Olive Garden. The Chocolate Espresso Crème Brûlée at El Torito Grill. All gone.
It's perhaps worse with the Grilled Fiesta Burrito, because El Pollo Loco was one of the southern California establishments I missed greatly after we moved to Idaho, solely because of that item. To finally come back to SoCal and find it missing was heartbreaking, in a things-that-shouldn't-bother-you-because-they're-so-trivial-yet-they-do-anyway kind of way.
Goodbye, El Pollo Loco. You tossed aside the Grilled Fiesta Burrito as though it were a bag of moldy tangerines, and I'm not your best friend anymore. So there.
Now I'm just waiting for Carl's Jr. to discontinue the Western Bacon Cheeseburger. (Although on a happy note, it seems that Hardee's will finally be getting all of the Carl's Jr. menu items this summer, so I can finally respect its use of the happy star logo.)
I Googled "grilled fiesta burrito" trying to find out if they discontinued it and wound up here... about a year or so I was told they no longer had it, but oddly enough a few months later I found a location that DID serve it. I imagine by now it's been phased out of all restaurants. :( I completely agree with you about their other burritos... the Grilled Fiesta is on a whole other level. The sauce and the little tortilla strips really make it. It was my #1 burrito among all fast food chains (including Chipotle, Baja Fresh, etc.). Nice to see I'm not alone in that. RIP.