Mexicali Burrito Co

Fast and friendly service, fresh ingredients, professional presentation, and absolutely delicious food! I ordered The chicken quesadilla with all the fixings, and I’m very excited to go back for some of their other great menu items! Thank you Mexicali!

Massive burritos for $ 7 including guac? I’LL TAKE IT. Got the Mexicali with buffalo chicken and it’s totally hitting the spot (I’m typing and eating at the same time, thus, the use of present tense).

Got a burrito bowl (barbacoa, black beans, rice, pico de Gallo, cheese, sour cream), which was pretty watery but fine to eat. It was $ 8 and from Broad’s 2^nd floor. The containers were paper and not equipped for all that water.
What really irked me was the service. The guy said, «you are very shy» for no apparent reason. Because I don’t want to make small talk he feels he has to make that kind of comment? Is he expecting some kind of positive reaction? There is 0% chance of a positive reaction. I’d suggest not offending paying customers in the future.

Friendly staff, tasty eats. Cheap, quick, and convenient CaliMex foodstuff :)

This place is my go-​to when I’m hangry and broke (which is often). It takes a lot of food to keep me satisfied, and the Big Sur always hits the spot! It will probably be the only thing I ever get here because of the price and its sheer size.
I sometimes question the sanitation level of this place. There are normally flies hovering around the joint, and many times, the workers are careless with handling the food. The workers are so nice, but they tend to be negligent with keeping the water tank full and cold.

Excellent burrito place, always taste great, and there are tons of options to choose from. Highly recommended you visit.

Food is ok, bit overpriced and they are SUPER stingy with the portions. Better to go to Chipotle or somewhere else.

Very good quesadillas, very good convenient location to MIT campus.
The rest of the menu is OK, not spectacular.

I got the chipotle mushroom burrito bowl (black beans, rice, guac, and pico de gallo) — ~7.50. It was pretty flavorless and very soggy. There was a sauce that drenched my rice so by the end, I couldn’t eat anything. Rice was also kind of hard.
Although the staff is super friendly, the food is bland and not filling either.

This place is super close to my work soooo I had to try it!
I went in for lunch and had a spicy chicken burrito with beans, rice, cheese, and guac.
It was fine. Nothing special. But it did the trick!

Very good burritos but PLEASE start draining more of the liquid out of the pork before putting it in the burrito. It’s like trying to eat a water balloon and I end up with my face and hands stained orange. It tastes great but I don’t even bother going there for lunch if I don’t have time to take a shower when I’m done.

I have eaten here several times. The location is pretty good if you are on campus and it seems to be clean inside with a lunch line that moves quickly. The food is decent and only slightly overpriced which is good for Kendall Square. All around its a pretty good place for a quick lunch to go. My contention with this restaurant is the servers on the line. Every time I have come through one or more of the folks on the line have been rude. Not all the folks but always one or two. I don’t expect gushing friendliness, stoic faces and monotone voices are fine and at least minimally professional. However, at this location service is at times outright rude or just plain snotty. I’ll have my meal sans sass in the future please.

Good Mexican food with so much better vegetarian options than anyplace else (e.g. Anna’s)! They do some kind of squash, which took some getting used to — it’s a sweeter vegetable — but I really like it. They have chipotle mushrooms — definitely have that smoky taste, which I don’t enjoy. Portions are HUGE and very customizable — easily lunch and dinner. The pop-up’s menu is slightly different than the restaurant. They cater for us all the time! Their chips are really good, salsas are ok. Guac is nice and chunky but not really flavorful. I find the burritos a little dry, as well.

We have Mexicali cater to Sloan frequently and honestly their food must be the worst Mexican I have ever had. The burritos taste like nothing, the salsas are so marginally tasteful it is saddening. Only the chips offer some hope in the dark but again– they are just chips… Horrible food would never eat there after that catering service

Chile relleno is more like a cheese omelette that was then warmed on their grill. I found very few pieces of Chile in my «Chile relleno», it was mostly egg and cheese. I believe this item should be either removed from the menu, or sold for what it is, but please stop calling it a Chile relleno.
Service is fast and prompt, nothing to complain on the service and cleanliness of the locale, but the foods leaves a lot to wish. Salsa’s lacked overall flavor and depth as well as the food, so I was forced to use some salt. Despite generous portions and nice service the food quality was not worth it. I would prefer their competition any time.

Lunch is good here. Mexicali has been part of my lunch rotation since it opened a few years ago. The steak quesadilla is good — better than the burritos. It comes with a large scoop of guacamole and salsa. I usually order plain chips to dip in those. Fast friendly service. Closes around 2pm usually so not convenient for late lunches. Unfortunately no longer open for breakfast.

I went here when I arrived as a freshman at MIT several years ago but haven’t been often since it seemed a bit of a walk from campus. Once I realized I just needed to suck it up, I’ve been at least once a week as a grad student!
I think this place is better than most of the Central/​Kendall/​MIT area burrito joints — the burritos are big, cheap, and sturdy; the tortillas are grilled, not steamed or fried; and the meat is grilled, not boiled, and always well-​seasoned. You can tell there’s real quality in the food and it’s delicious. For $ 8 you can get a huge (4“x6″ or so) burrito with everything, including guac.
Don’t get salsa as a topping unless you really want the pico de gallo — there’s better to be had for free at the salsa bar (I always get the fire roasted tomato, with enough garlic to make it spicy and repel co-​workers for hours).
Staff is friendly, except when they’re pushing the lunch crowd through, which they do with amazing speed. You can almost always find one of the co-​owners working the line.

They offer mushrooms and do not skimp on the portions, a plus for a vegetarian. Also for anyone who loves guacamole as much as I do (it’s a lot) they give massive portions. $ 6 (or more with more toppings) for a salad bowl with a huge serving of beans and guac with some fixings and that’s about 2 lunches for me, and cheaper than most. A definite go to when I need guac, but the dressing is bland and otherwise, it’s just a burrito place.
Semi-​confusing ordering, or maybe it’s just me, I get nervous when I haven’t made my mind up and they’re waiting, and the Add-​Ons sign is to the right of the window, hard to read and think and talk at the same time.
The location being referred to is the outdoor cabana location in Kendall Square near Genzyme. It is a great area for a pop-​up in the warmer months.

It’s very good. The quesadilla is fantastic. Crispy and tasty. Burrito wise, its good. I prefer it over Anna’s but not as good as Boca Grande.
I love when they do plantains, but they never seem to have them on the days when I go in.

I love this place. Their catering is a little expensive for beans/​tortillas, but the food is really good.
I’ve never really had a complaint and always got what I wanted.
The burritos (especially the Big Sur) are enormous and taste great. The chips are fresh and crunchy and the salsa flows freely!

This review is for the «Burrito Cabana» location, not the regular brick and mortar store.
I bought two burritos with an internet deal: one with the vegetable of the day (Mexican squash) and the other with steak. These were both the worst tasting burritos I’ve ever had. Now I’m used to tasteless bland «Mexican» (this is Boston after all where Anna’s Tacqueria is a lot of people’s idea of «good Mexican»). And I would have preferred tasteless and bland. This was just ugh.
Sadly I have ¾ of the steak burrito leftover for lunch at work today — it’s either eat it or starve. I’m not looking forward to it.