LiL donkeys is a virtual burrito RESTAURANT by bien trucha group
IN A NUTSHELL, WE coexist within the kitchens of our three MEXICAN SISTER restaurants: a toda madre (glen Ellyn), Bien trucha (Geneva) and Quiubo (naperville).
NOPE …
DON’T EXPECT “that” type of burrito.
If your idea of a burrito is a massive tortilla loaded to the brim with rice, beans, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream, then you’re not in the right spot (and you probably already have plenty of options for where to find those).
We make our burritos like we make them in Mexico: a flour tortilla smeared with beans, topped with the filling of your choice, and rolled up…that’s it, SIMPLE DELICIOUSNESS WITHOUT THE EXTRA FILLERS!
WHAT?
“LIL DONKEYS” MEANS BURRITOS?!
Yep, in case you didn’t know, “burro” in Spanish means donkey, “ito” denotes little, so “burrito” means…you do the math.
And in case you’re curious about where the name comes from: one of the most popular stories suggests that in the early 1900s, right around the time of the Mexican Revolution, a man from Chihuahua, Mexico named Juan Mendez sold food in a cart pulled by a donkey. To keep the food warm, he would wrap it up in a homemade flour tortilla.
Whether that story is true or not, we do know that the Diccionario de Mejicanismos by Féliz Ramos y Duarte has an entry for burrito as early as 1895, quite a few years before Juan’s time. The entry states that a burrito is “A rolled tortilla with meat or other ingredients inside” and that the term was popular in Guanajuato, a state in central Mexico. As the dictionary entry is the only factual evidence we have to show where burritos came from, the idea that they originated in central Mexico seems to be the most accurate.
