I prefer the vegan breakfast burritos from Glowing Juices (Echo Park) and Erewhon (Silver Lake) to that of Wake & Late.
Awesome! That is right near the E line Atlantic station, not to far from the East LA Court House (I like to do Jury Duty there because it’s chill). Being closer to them, we’ve been a few times already and discovered they sell fresh flour tortillas that you finish on the comal. They are very good. Not as good as Caramelo tortillas, but delicious none the less. $6 for.a Dozen Burrito style.
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I miss the old La Azteca with the ladies in the back making tortillas by hand and the amazing carnitas
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LA used to supply all of the local business with tortillas. My uncle had a store down the street and we couldn’t help ourselves from breaking open and attacking the still warm freshly delivered tortillas. We never knew how good we had it.
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Had to report for jury duty and remembered this article from way back:
Smallish at about the same size as Villa Corona but well priced at $6.85/breakfast burrito. It took about 10 minutes at 7:30AM with a couple folks ahead of me and was on the way from parking to where I needed to report
You can get it with your choice of potatoes (hash browns, home fries or tater tots), breakfast meat (bacon or sausage) and comes with salsa and cheese. They make it in front of you and it’s not half bad.
A couple things to note: the cafeteria doesn’t open to the public until 8AM but if you have the courage of your convictions they seem to let you through earlier. They also stop serving breakfast at 10:25AM.
They definitely have other items but I’ll probably stick with the burrito if/when I have to report again.
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WireMonkey, can you get it with onions?
Good question - I think you probably could. The dude in front of me got something off menu mixed into the eggs and they have onions sitting right there. I also noticed they had grilled jalapeños with no obvious use on the menu so it seems like they’re pretty open to modifications (at least in the pretty slack early hour I was ordering)
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Thanks.
Tried Julian’s today after my bike ride. Solid breakfast burrito wrapped in a supple yet elastic tortilla. Filling is evenly distributed from head to tail with beans, eggs, steak(my choice today over my normal tendency for machaca and chorizo), and salsa. Not huge, but satisfying. Salsa and a few tortilla chips was included in the bag.
Would go again if/when I’m in the neighborhood to sample the extensive breakfast and plates menu offered along with the full array of Mexican pastries. Ample parking and it seems to be frequented by regulars. Thanks @JeetKuneBao for the Intel.
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Thanks for reporting back! Looks good.
TBH I never had a breakfast burrito with beans I’ll have to give it a try
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I don’t consider anything a burrito unless it has beans, especially breakfast burritos. I also find tater tots or a lot of potato in breakfast burritos a nonstarter 
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Hah, I’m the opposite! Not into breakfast burritos with beans but I do like a tater tot as the potato element. I came late to burritos generally and breakfast burritos specifically, though
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Quickest way to ruin a breakfast burrito.
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IMO tater tots are acceptable! For me it’s even preferred lol!
I don’t find myself in Burbank often unless my movie career takes off but I hear Corner Cottage is very potato heavy. They always make the lists tho
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Man, give me a lot of eggs and potatoes done right and with some gooey cheese and that can be my base to start things off and I am good to go. To me the best part of Cofax BB’s are the smoked potatoes. But, any kind of potato is good by me. Add some beans in my BB and I take it back, unless, it’s a vegan BB.
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For me the most important thing is for all of the ingredients in the burrito to be mixed up so you get a well distributed bite. I don’t like getting an all egg bite then an all potato bite. That’s just me.
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I thought Corner Cottage was good. I wouldn’t go out of my way. I don’t remember it being potato heavy and if it was it wasn’t offensive.
Of course tots because of their crunch can be overloaded into a breakfast burrito and they work.
Yeah for sure why would you want something crunchy to add texture when you could just keep the whole thing mushy and the same?
I’m in the potatoes camp too but I"ve had breakfast burritos with bean in them and didn’t mind. Just depends on the overall construction of the burrito.
My biggest things are distribution of ingredients and a good salsa.
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Some wild takes in here - but overall 90+% of LA’s breakfast burritos are terrible. Too large, too much, too mush. Platonic ideal is the premade green chile BB at Charlie’s Spic & Span in Las Vegas, NM. A little bigger than a Burritos La Palma but not by much.
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