Chilango

Assembly line burritos tacos and bowls much like chipotle. The pork belly is my favorite meat item on the menu. Make sure not to skip out on the house hot sauces. If you really like some heat with your Mexican splash some of the habanero chili sauce to give your taste buds a wake up call. Staff is friendly and knowledgable. Great lunch spot.

I love this place! Right next to my office, I just hop to this place for a quick bite. Haven’t tried the burrito yet. I love their prawn and chicken salads. Quick service and warmth make me come here more than often!!!

This place is a lot like Chipotle, which I love, back in the states. All of the ingredients were good except the meat. The stake was the worst quality. I keept chewing and chewing, but it never broke down. I didn’t try the chicken or pork.

Ideal for a quick lunch around the Fleet Street and local area, so far the best Burritos I’ve had in London. Packed to the brim with everything! Lots of flavour. Staff are chatty and friendly. Very quick too :-)

I am so exciting to finally work near this Chillango branch again, had lots of good food memory when I was around this area 5 years ago. Always a big Fan of this branch.
Today, try out the mixed chicken and steak naked burrito. Proportion is still the best compared to the London wall branch. Chicken still good.
But I am disappointed by the steak this time. A bit over cooked and not hot enough even I buy it at 12:30 today: (it used to be so juicy and cook as medium rare!
So mark it as four star only this time.
I don’t see the friendly branch manager anymore during lunch serving, he changes job?

Hands down my favourite burrito joint in London and a regular lunchtime spot for me.
This fast yet fresh mexican outlet follows the typical setup for these places, big posters above the assembly area offering an array of burritos, tacos, salads and nacho boxes.
I usually go for the chicken burrito, I love the marinade they use which is the right balance of spicy and a little bit salty (in a good way!). They use chicken breasts with the skins on so there is always a nice crispiness in your burrito.
The usual selection of pinto beans and rice are always hot, and the salsas are delicious. I opt for a combination of medium and mild, the mild tomato salsa is juicy and crunchy with good coriander flavours. Guacamole is extra (standard for London) but delicious.
Last time I went I also sampled the tacos which were fresh flour tacos as opposed to traditional corn.
The décor is quirky and fun with lucha libre masks on mannequin heads and a large avocado and burrito themed graffiti mural the length of one wall.
The queues can be long but the friendly and efficient staff mean the wait is never long.

If your ever in the Fleet Street/​St Paul’s area, I would strongly suggest popping in here for lunch. It gets very busy at lunch time but the food is really good. They do both eat in and take away.
They also have lots of different choices which is great.
Good staff, good food, nice place.
Check it out!

The quality of ingredients is spot on fresh. Chicken is marinated and cooked to perfection.
Impossible for a quiet lunch during the week though but everything about Chilango is catered for city professionals looking for a special takeaway lunch.
Highly recommended just don’t expect to have a quiet sit down lunch during the week.

Completely overpriced. Food is average — would be better off going to the Sainsburys across the road and making your own Mexican. Try Tortilla or Wahaca for a decent Mexican. £8 for some tortillas and guacamole!

Mexican has really kicked off in London, and I’d say that out of all of them, Chilango’s is probably second best (with Chipotle being the first!).
Pretty simple premise: rice, beans, meat, sauce wrapped up or as a salad, bth with loads of yummy guac!
Having lived in San Diego, CA for a while, I’ve eaten a lot of burritos in my life, and a lot of other burrito places in London seem quite bland to me, so the ingredients here are definitely fresher, though not quite Cali-​forn-​aye-​ay.
This place is pretty fast though which is always handy; a new one has opened up in the City, which is rammo every time i go in there.
If they did brown rice and/​or packed in a little more into the burritos, then they I’d probably give this place 4 beautiful stars.

Overpriced and underwhelmed! So much for all the raving on the signs outside and the line that is always out the door. I got a chicken burrito with peppers and all the trimmings, even paying an extra £1 for guacamole. Nearly £8 for a burrito?! this better be the best burrito ever. Alas, it was not. I found the whole meal bland and boring. So my hunt for a good lunchtime burrito in the Fleet St area continues…

Overpriced. Decent. But not Mexican.
The signs offer praise of Zagat awards and newspaper awards. All for «Best Mexican.» Well, these people have clearly never had real Mexican food.
I had the pork tacos. 3 for £6.70 is a steep price to begin with, but then I was informed that guacamole would be £1 extra. I abstained. The pork was the best part. It was juicy and warm and nice. But not seasoned. The pico de gallo was hardly pico-​y. Mostly just chopped tomatoes with a touch of cilantro and the tiniest bit of onions. All in all, a filling, but incredibly bland and overpriced meal.
Other reviews make a lot of comparisons to Chipotle. Having only ever had US Chipotle and not having tried the locations here in London, I couldn’t really compare apples to apples. But thinking of American Chipotle, this place isn’t even close.
Why is it that London seems to like the *idea* of Mexican food, but seems to think that burritos are the be all, end all and that the food shouldn’t have seasoning?
Blargh.

If you’re choosing between this location and the one on Chancery Lane, take the extra 3 minutes and hit up the Chancery Lane location. This one is smaller, doesn’t have the tap water set-​up, and doesn’t take the loyalty cards.
In summary from my other review, though, this is a great lunch choice. For £6−7 you get a ton of filling, not-​terrible-​for-​you (if you choose wisely), freshly made food very quickly.

I’m going to go wild and say that Chilango is better than Chipotle. Up for debate how much that’s an accolade, but seeing as we’re not in LA/​Santa Fe/​Las Vegas NM (yes, I have been there) right now, let’s just enjoy all this food in a single tortilla. Their chips/​guac and lemonade to be avoided though, in my opinion.
The other week I got here really early and leisurely stuffed my face in front of an ever growing queue, which was awesome. The queue itself is also a highlight though, because you get to see them doing things in the kitchen, like slicing medium rare juicy steak.
Top tip: get more than one type of salsa! One is not enough!

C’est ce que nous avons besoin de plus de Londres. Chilango est le lieu ultime de la nourriture rapide pour les adultes. Au lieu de chiots noire qu’ils ont Margarita gelés, et au lieu d’aliments vraiment junky ils ont burritos, qui est beaucoup mieux pour vous d’un burger. C’est un repas complet dans un rouleau, et il pimp avec de la salsa et de guacamole et vous riez!
Chilango est l’endroit parfait pour aller avec un groupe d’amis et de boire quelques verres, tout en étant capable de manger un endroit très bon marché. Les prix sont au plus bas et vous payez pour la nourriture vraiment sympa. Rien n’est frits et nageant dans l’huile qui, pour manger à pas cher est assez difficile. Je pense que Chilango va prouver un acte difficile à suivre.

If you go to Chilango at lunchtime the queue stretches the length of the building. Of course it does. These are damn fine burritos.
Normally having to queue for things drives me mad, however at Chilango for some reason all it served to do was heighten my anticipation for the arrival of the parcel of meaty, ricey goodness. Especially mouthwatering was having to queue past the large windows of the kitchen, where the staff were preparing the next bins full of gorgeous marinated meat.
It’s a very tough gig to try to explain why something’s great when there’s no one particular thing that stands out about it, other than that it’s… well, great! The amount of each burrito ingredient was fine, it was rolled right so when you bit it you got a good mixed mouthful, the ingredients were fresh and tasty, and the assembly was such that it didn’t fall apart in your hands.
This is a textbook example of a great burrito, and the only thing preventing me from going there more often is the fact that I’ve got to go past several other great burrito places to get there. However I’m looking forward to the next time I do!

This is my first review on Qype. I’m a bit of a burrito fan, and Chilango was the first restaurant I wanted to review. I had my first Chilango the day before their official opening, some time ago. I distinctly remember this day, and immediately telling my Mexican best friend that I’d discovered a great place that does authentic tacos similar to those found in Mexico.
Were it not for the fact that I don’t quite work close enough to go there regularly, I could easily eat here every day.
Suffice to say that he burritos and tacos are excellent. The staff are friendly and the atmosphere is vibrant, even when the place is full of bankers on a weekday lunchtime. I love that the entire kitchen is visible through a glass wall, and the whole operation is efficient and friendly. Even on days when the queue extends outside the shop, you can still get your burrito within 15 minutes which is great for lunchtime.

I’ve been desperate for some decent mexican food since I left Kansas. I happened across Chilango after a job interview the other day and the bright neon green and pink drew me in.
I was very excited to find that this was an English version of Chipotle with a similar setup and menu. It even TASTES like Chipotle. Yay! I ordered a veggie burrito with chips and salsa. The burrito was awesome. The chips – eh. I agree with Tisha B. that a bit of lime and salt would make them fantastic. I got the mild salsa which was basically just diced tomatoes. Not great, but still good. Another big plus is lack of damage to my wallet – two burritos, two side orders and two Cokes cost me about £13.
I dug the neon green. I also loved the hot pink stools and paper flowers. Kind of an odd choice of décor for a Mexican joint but it was sure happy and friendly. And I think Chilango is probably the only place in town where you’ll hear a mariachi cover of ‘Billie Jean’. You don’t want to miss out on that!

Fast, cheap, decent. Not fab, but a-​OK. Fills my burrito fix OK. As in, I don’t have urges to get on a plane to San Francisco once a week. Well, I do, but they’re controllable.
It seems like every burrito place in London is copying Chipotle. This is the bare minimum, people.
This is the methadone of burritos. But it’s still good for all that.
(Bonus half star as they support a bunch of charity stuff)
(if this was a San Francisco burrito establishment, it’d be 1.5 stars…)

Having lived in San Francisco for some time last summer I’ve been absolutely desperate to seek out a burrito place in London that does anything even remotely similar to Gordo’s mind-​numbingly good burritos. This place is certainly the best I’ve found.
I was wandering around Ludgate Hill feeling hungry today when I stuck my head in the door, there was a bit of a queue (this being around 2pm on a weekday) but plenty of places to sit. The décor was modern and stylish and clean too. I queued up and was a bit miffed to find the staff treat you a bit like they do in Subway, they expect you to know the process, luckily I do but I felt a bit sorry for someone who didn’t. I had a beef steak burrito with mild salsa, pinto beans and cheese.
Oh my god. It was so tasty. Wrapped in tin foil just like in San Francisco and fat as my arm. I have one or two gripes though, the rice was white rice with some herbs in it not Spanish rice like in the Mission. The tortilla chips were not free and it wasn’t served in a basket with the wax paper but. meh who am I to complain? The beef was amazing, it was juicy and there was tonnes of it, the whole thing stayed together fairly well (although a bigger tortilla could have prevented the spilitting that happened towards the end).
When I asked for a glass of tap water there was some confusion but I got it eventually and for £5.90 it made a fairly cheap lunch well, just as expensive as a Pret or McDonalds would have been. If I worked near here I honestly doubt I’d eat anything else. I wouldn’t go waaay out of my way to eat here but I’d certainly go a bit out of my way.

Chipo, erm, I mean Chilango…
You were out of chips.
You were out of guacamole.
I was not drunk.
Yet you still receive 3 stars. Now that is saying something. Seriously, they were some pretty stellar chicken tacos. Not quite like… you know what… I’m not even going to go there. «Pretty stellar» it is.
You’re growing on me, and not just because you’re all I ate for two days while laying grass, wrapping a wall and building a pub. (Nope, not a euphemism, even in the slightest.)