A partial screenshot from the current issue of the Santa Barbara Independent online, its text reads 《It's Little Alex's first Burrito Week and, to celebrate, they are dishing out two scrumptious new additions to their menu: a pancake breakfast burrito and bean dip burrito. Record scratch. I know what you're thinking - pancakes? In a burrito? But trust me, it works. I sat down on a rattan chair at their gorgeous bar next to an exposed brick wall, and co-owner Josh Briner presented me with four variations of their two offerings. I was in burrito heaven. For the pancake burrito, you can get it traditionally served in a tortilla or fried and coated in cinnamon sugar (I recommend the latter); for the bean dip, you can get birria, steak rajas, or veggie rajas. As I chowed down, Briner recapped the history of the family business: His parents opened the first Little Alex's in Montecito in 1989 and stayed there for 30 years, before moving into their new digs at the Five Points shopping center on upper State last year. Briner's boys were working the front, adding to the laid-back, familial feel. The pancake burrito scared me a little at first. But the savory-sweet combination of eggs, bacon, and cheese, wrapped in a thin pancake and tortilla, with maple syrup for dipping, quickly won over my taste buds. "We put potatoes in burritos anyway," Briner explained. "We thought, 'Just change the starch and see what happens.'" What happens is a weird, culinary stroke of genius.》
Now resuming #BurritoWeek programming; heading to old SB institution Little Alex's—descendant of Alex's Cantina—to do a gastro-analysis of their #BreakfastBurrito. If I were a #foodie (I'm not), my areas of expertise might incl.: breakfast burritos; micheladas; fusion dishes involving #KimChee; ???