Taqueria La Cumbre is one of the two restaurants that dispute the credit for inventing the delicious Mission-style burrito. A Mission-style burrito is a humongous pile of ingredients, typically including rice, wrapped tightly in a steamed flour tortilla.
According to Taqueria La Cumbre, the owners, Raul and Michaela Duran, invented it on September 29, 1969, when their current restaurant was still a meat market.
The modern giant tortillas were not yet commercially available, so a local teenager, future musician Jorge Santana1Not to be confused with his brother, the musician Carlos Santana. of Malo, came in the mornings to bake them especially for burritos. He remembered it fondly in later years.
1Not to be confused with his brother, the musician Carlos Santana.Not to be confused with his brother, the musician Carlos Santana.
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