The Little Chihuahua

photo - Yelp, Frank K.

The Little Chihuahua, Brunch, Lower Haight

June 26, 2016

P:

Breakfast Burrito

A toasted flour tortilla stuffed with scrambled eggs, chorizo, jack cheese, refried beans, fresh chopped cilantro & onions, Mexican potatoes, sautéed poblano chiles and onions and smoky chile salsa

J:

Stacked Enchiladas

Corn tortillas stacked and filled with jack cheese, sautéed poblano chiles and onions, Mexican potatoes, black beans and braised pork. Smothered in red guajillo sauce and topped with two over easy eggs, chopped avocado and cotija cheese

Notes:

We wanted Mexican food on this beautiful Sunday afternoon, and we pass by this place every so often, so it was time to give it a try (and their brunch menu looked fabulous).

The restaurant is small and a bit crowded; it's one of those places where you order at the counter and the food is brought out to you.  It's also a happy meat place (meaning, the meats and seafood used are raised/caught sustainably), so it's more expensive than average [Mexican food], but not overly so.

They have a self-serve salsa bar, so we got a bowl of chips because you can't sample all of those salsas without a bowl of chips.  Some of the salsas were better than others, we found the smokey chipotle salsa to be the most flavorful.

Patrick was expecting a burrito of the handheld variety, but it arrived plated with sauce drizzled across the top.  He was happy with it, though.  That flour tortilla was packed with all kinds of Mexican breakfasty goodness: scrambled eggs, chorizo, refried beans, cheese, salsa, yum. 

Mine, also pretty satisfying, consisted of corn tortillas layered with deliciousness (tender, roasted red potatoes, chiles, black beans and bits of tender pork), and smothered in smooth, earthy red sauce. Melted cheese and two fried eggs with runny yolks crowned that lovely monstrosity (it was huge).


We'll go back, though we'll try something off the regular menu next time.