Those are not burritos!
Speaking of new paint, the northeast corner of 10th and Pine has a bright pulse of new life by day and by night as the new Capitol Hill Burritos California is now operational.
CHS reported here last month on the plans for Burritos California to take over the long-ago Kentucky Fried Chicken where Rancho Bravo held down the fort for years of affordable eats across from Cal Anderson Park.
The Burritos California chain with locations in Lakewood, Marysville, Auburn, and the University District under ownership from the extended Osoria family has stepped in with a new investment in the E Pine space.
Burritos California is also putting the property’s rare Capitol Hill drive-thru access to use.
Night owls can also add a new stop to Capitol Hill’s overnight food tour thanks to the joint’s 24-hour service.
It’s a sprawling restaurant family that includes the Aliberto’s Jr chain of restaurants with locations on 4th Ave S and Aurora in Seattle, Burien, Everett, Tacoma, Lacey, Renton, Centralia, and, yes, Vallejo, California.
While we’re welcoming the newest addition to Capitol Hill’s Mexican food scene, it’s also a good time to celebrate a longtimer. La Cocina is marking 45 years of business on Broadway this week.
Burritos California is now open at 1001 E Pine. Learn more at burritoscaliforniawa.com.
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Looking forward to giving it a shot! But I hope the proximity to Pike/Pine and the 24 hour style doesn’t produce a new hot spot for after-hours violence. They’re gonna have to hire security for sure even though the cops are half a block away.
This has been a taco joint in the same location forever…I doubt anything new will come along that isn’t already happening.
What is up with the unlicensed taco trucks that were all over Pike Pine last weekend? Must have been half a dozen of the places. Did anybody try any of the tacos?
Taco truck or street venders?
How do you know they were unlicensed?
Glad to see another business open, but it sucks that we have a drive-thru marring our walkable neighborhood.
At the risk of sounding dim, how does this restaurant having a drive thru mar the neighborhood?
A drive-thru is detrimental to the pedestrian experience because it brings cars constantly driving across the sidewalk.
I was thinking the same thing. While it is nice to have a 24-hour restaurant again like a proper city, I anticipate we will be reading about more tragic shootings this summer as gang members and drug dealers fight over the Cal Anderson park and Pike/Broadway open-air drug markets that the city has allowed to fester since the 2020 re-imagine policing fiasco. You would think a block from the police station would be a safe place, but Seattle leaders just don’t have the political will to crack down on crime and the police have quietly quit.
Yall need to pack it in and go to Paulsbo or some shit, like this post over 24 hour burrito joint.
Thanks for reading!
right? expressing dismay at the events of this summer that so far have only occurred in their imagination.
A new place has opened up, fantastic news. Cap Hill Blog on top of things again with great photos and info, but let’s talk about future murders.
Glad this is here for drunk emergencies, but everyone should be warned that the guacamole is not guacamole.
I’ve had two of their burritos so far. They were both good and the prices are reasonable for the neighborhood, but their menu board is over-complicated and much of it is unreadable without near-perfect vision (which I don’t have). They should at least have a paper copy available at the counter.
KFC had more drive/walk traffic back in the day
Not enough traffic to keep them in business there, apparently.
They need to fix their gutters. Last time it was raining it was spewing water everywhere
So are those super bright lights on the roof here to stay? They’re an eyesore and can’t possibly be up to code.
Please call the Seattle Department of Construction & Inspections at 206-615-0808 to register a complaint. The lights are absurdly bright, face other buildings, and are absolutely against building codes. I have called to register a complaint as I could not get contact information for the owners.
Very happy this building is not going to be vacant, but those over the top flood lights really need to go. I can understand usual business lights to illuminate the property, but these lights are so bright and big they cast shadows in my apartment near Broadway. I thought they were temporary, but they are not. If you have issues with this too, please call the Seattle Department of Construction & Inspections at 206-615-0808 to register a complaint.
what an eye sore!
We need WAY more late night coffee options