{"id":794,"date":"2018-11-08T19:31:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T19:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/?p=794"},"modified":"2018-11-22T20:08:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T20:08:12","slug":"review-go-burrito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/subtext\/2018\/11\/08\/review-go-burrito\/","title":{"rendered":"REVIEW: GO BURRITO"},"content":{"rendered":"

As part of a possibly ongoing series of reviews of the places that matter on campus (i.e. food and drink venues) we have dispatched our gaggle of taster drones on a culinary fact finding mission. The first to report back was last seen in public staggering out of Go Burrito, clutching its stomach-parts and softly whimpering ‘can’t… eat… any… moar’.<\/span><\/p>\n

The campus Go Burrito started as a rather ingenious attempt to keep a business afloat – or rather, not afloat, given the mothership premises are on Church Street in Lancaster, in one of the areas of the city centre worst affected by flooding following Storm Desmond in late 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n

The formula is relatively simple, and superficially reminiscent of the Starbucks\/Subway style choice system, where customers are given a series of increasingly complex options about what exactly they want in their food. At Go Burrito, fortunately, rather than over-sweetened and overpriced coffee drinks or limp-looking bread rolls topped with limp-looking other stuff, the choices are rather more appealing. Patrons are invited to choose their burrito size, type of beans, spicy or mild rice, main filling (a choice of around 5-6 meat or vegetarian options including beef\/veggie chilli, pulled pork, stir fry veg, and sometimes specials), salsas of various spiciness, and a large selection of other fillings including jalape\u00f1os, guacamole and, for some bizarre reason, crushed tortilla chips.<\/span><\/p>\n

There isn’t much in the way of sides: currently curly fries or nachos, and the hot cheese sauce is a bit too like what you might find in a cinema chain (our drone preferred sour cream as a topping). The drinks are also a little on the sugary side (who even knew that Lilt still existed?), but by and large Go Burrito offers a decent lunch of not too unhealthy fast-food at non-astronomical prices. And if you ramp up the spice levels enough, you might even be able to stay awake after lunch despite having consumed a large burrito oozing with cheesy chilli goodness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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