Recent Snacks

corn tortilla soft tacos (yeah, I said corn tortillas!)

greg — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:19:41 +0000

wow. the sign at the front of the line at this store today said something about “attention soft taco lovers (and the rest of you, really). we’re now offering corn tortillas for the soft tacos if you want to try it. let us know whatchoo think.”

so, naturally I had to try them. and they were good. this is certainly a step towards authenticity, which is a “good thing” in many people’s corn-tortilla-loving-minds. in my case the tortillas were not great. they seemed like they had been sliced with a knife - as I rolled them up they split letting lots of food dump out. I don’t mind much, but it was weird. perhaps this natural aspect of corn tortillas is why burritoblog.com’s jonah feld calls for two tortillas on a real taco.

it’s pretty interesting. this store, i’ve heard, is a trial store for new things. certainly being close to the corporate offices helps in that regard. i wonder how the corn tortillas will go for them. i think that perhaps it’s time to make a campaign to get people to go to this store and order lots of these tortillas so that they’ll do it at more stores.

chicken tacos in boulder - no heartburn

greg — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:50:33 +0000

we were talking about heartburn today and how i used to get two scoops of hot sauce and how i only get one scoop now.

rad got two scoops and is so far heartburn free. good for him!

And in case you read these updates and not the front page, I just posted intreview with a Chipotle Star and a part two which is, in my humble opinion, awesome.

crispy pork tacos in boulder

greg — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:07:27 +0000

one of the main line workers at this location seems to have started to recognize me. that’s always nice.

they changed the menu so that crispy tacos now means 3 of them instead of 4 but they have also widened up the tacos to hold more fillings. i’m curios if that will impact the nutrition information sheet.

barbacoa burrito on hampden at whole foods

greg — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 14:04:24 +0000

split this one with my wife. yay wife.

also, this story is just plain hilarious even though the only tie to chipotle was that she was eating there…

I myself was enjoying my very tasty burrito when I smelled the faint stench of soiled undies. Immediately I rushed to 3 year-old Abbey’s side to unobtrusively check, but she was perfectly clean. Then it hit me that Jake hadn’t gone potty all day long.

So I asked him. He said no. But the stench of the soiled undies did not disappear, and I was beginning to worry that this smell would pervade the surrounding area and attract a bit of negative attention. I thought to myself: “Sweet Jesus, the child pooped his pants…” Continuing to dread that this was actually what had occured, I asked again; his reply was the same as before. “He just had to have, it’s getting worse!” So, with my best effort of a stern expression on a less-than-serious topic, I asked one more time.

This time, he jumped up, yanked down his pants, bent over, spread his cheeks and yelled, “See Bridget, IT’S JUST FARTS!”

I tried to reduce the length of my quote, but frankly the writing is just so good and the story so hilarious that no bits can be removed. Fortunately, the patrons seemed to get a good laugh out of it. Chin up, Bridge, I think it’s a hilarious story from both “ends”!

chicken bol

greg — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:09:55 +0000

delcious day. though buzzzzy. yay.

wife. booze. joe stupp. music/concert rockout. best. day. EVER.

greg — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:40:14 +0000

great wife

i split a barbacoa burrito with my wife. i love spending time with my wife. i guess it’s a good thing i married her. (i also love barbacoa and so does she! see - that’s part of what makes her so great!)

great happy hour

as i walked through the line i noticed they are doing “happy hour” at this location from 6 to 8 - free chips/salsa and half price beers/margaritas. awesome! i’m totally in. the manager seemed excited about the deal, so folks should take advantage of it for sure.

the chipotle joe team

then, half way through lunch the “joe” walked into the store. you know joe from the “ask joe” feature on chipotle.com. i wasn’t sure at first, but i asked the manager and he confirmed joe was indeed “that joe”. ~~i realize now the others were ken and dawn, but I just don’t know y’all’s faces yet. sorry!~~ EDIT: turns out it was some other folks.

music/concert community rock out!

then i get back from lunch and find out that a project i’ve been helping my friend ezra with is now open to the public. yep - get your concert on at concertology. oh hells yeah! (it’s a little rough around the edges still so play with care, but tomorrow is an all day hackfest and from there it’s like a straight path to music/concert community roxxorz!)

best. day ever

i ask you - what could make for a better day? not much.

hard chicken tacos at tamarac on hampden chipotle

greg — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:39:10 +0000

This store has a shelf under the bar area which makes it easier to use if you have a purse or book.

Also, my parents believe that this store gives a different amount of food compared to belleview and colorado stores. belleview store apparently giving the most. so, we brought in a letter scale and weighed my dad’s bol: bol with rice, chicken, cheese, and including the aluminum top and cardboard bottom weighs 13 ounces at this store.

we’ll have to see how that stacks up against other stores.

drupalcamp goes to chipotle on pearl

greg — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 23:33:33 +0000

we had a DrupalCamp event today at our offices and at kevin’s suggestion we went to chipotle. ahhh, that’s nice.

the trivia was about chinese philosophers and what the more popular name was for the philosopher “kung fu tzu”. well, name both chinese philosophers that you know. one of them sounds like “kung fu tzu”. so, that’s it. pretty easy question….and just about everyone got a free drink today. whoops.

chipotle birthday letdown

greg — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 20:41:31 +0000

today was chipotle’s 14th birthday. I got there at 11:15 because I wanted to be sure to get there early for the crazy crowds. apparently not everyone sees today as a big event. the store wasn’t even having any promotions or anything.

i asked about it and the manager was very nice, but said they weren’t doing anything. he did have the great idea that next year (the quinciniera, a huge “coming-of-age” birthday with a big party in Mexican culture) that they should have a huge party but then said “of course, we’d have to get approval from corporate”.

dear “corporate”,

i was there on the 10th birthday and while i’m going to be in mexico next summer i’ll probably be at every other birthday. you should celebrate these things. it’s part of what keeps the “un” in your “un chain”.

all the best on your birthday,
Greg

chicken burrito split with wife at california location

greg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:32:00 +0000

we planned our trip to spain at the chipotle today. also, they had a new steamer for the tortillas.

yay.

chicken tacos on belleview (cherry creek rules)

greg — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 04:36:28 +0000

i had a beer and read the westword - good times.

also, i used to live in this neighborhood when i was in high school and have many memories. one of the things i did back in high school of which i’m particularly proud (and embarrassed) was a “drive by water ballooning”. my high school had 3,000+ people in it. that’s a lot. the “cool kids” vs. “everyone else” gets amplified by the fact that in a class of 800 students there are enough people to have multiple warring cool-kid factions. creek (or cchs) was pretty amazing in that regard. lots of the “cool kids” would hang out at the starbucks on arapahoe. lots of them. they filled the sidewalk and overflowed into the parking lot. bad kids would go to the parking lot to smoke/drink. baaaad.

i didn’t really like the cool kids in high school. they were obsessed with money, cars, and looks. in a quite daring move one hot summer night my friends and i got a bunch of water balloons prepared, got in an open top jeep, turned on our best bass heavy song, and crept up real slow to the location with windows open. then we all threw our balloons and sped away as fast as we could. we heard screams from the recipients of the balloons as we sped away laughing.

last night i saw a smaller group of those same kinds of kids at 9:30 at night hanging out on the patio outside chipotle. it’s amazing how the years go by and things stay the same. seeing them last night reminded me of the story, so i hope you’ll pardon the extra trip down memory lane.

barbacoa burrito to split at chipotle in downtown denver (and delivery!)

greg — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:04:04 +0000

I ate with bug today so we’re splitting.

also, today is 3 days before the 14th birthday of chipotle. So don’t forget and you can meet me at the first chipotle store at 11AM so that we can buy a burrito in celebration. yay.

also, (also!) they are now doing delivery from this store at 16th and blake - so the chipotle delivery from the colfax store wasn’t a fluke. Adam writes about the beauties of the don’t stand in line (DSL) delivery system at chipotle and how it makes an offline online connection which makes a lot of sense to me.

and finally, pete in the city discusses a vip card or perhaps just using a Colorado drivers license to determine pecking rights in the chipotle line.

i love it.

vegetarian burrito bol in boulder

greg — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 18:49:12 +0000

i got an odd combo of salsas today. it was still pretty good. i don’t know what i was thinking - corn+hot or corn+green would have been better…

delicious chicken tacos

greg — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:13:10 +0000

these crispy tacos are delicious. wtf was i doing for so long not eating them.

also, chipotle was closed yesterday. i went to dinner at the nearby il vicino which is a nice pizza place with a really great IPA, but noticed that every restaurant in this strip mall was open with the exception of chipotle. i wasn’t entirely sure why that was the case. on Cinco de Mayo (the closest thing to a Mexican independence day) Chipotle was open, but July 4th it’s closed. aside from giving a rest to their employees, i wonder what motivation there is to choose this holiday for vacation.

vegetarian bol in on pearl boulder

greg — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 18:31:01 +0000

fun lunch today with ezra just discussing plans for world domination.

as ezra put it, “we get to play with a very cool toy”.

which is true. in comparison to the toys i used to play with.

delicious chicken burrito

greg — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 18:31:17 +0000

bug and i skipped out to lunch in the middle of house chores. house chores are necessary so we can move out of our house prior to the world spanish tour.