Other winning points: service is quick and friendly. (Don’t sub in the dry side of rice and black beans unless there’s excess water you need to sop up somewhere.) Fried fresh several times each day, they’re thin, crisp and easy to eat, especially dipped in the mini cup of guacamole served on the side. Tortilla chips that came with the fish taco combo ($9, including a drink) also were not bad. The rest of the tilapia was flaky, though, and flavor-wise went well with the cabbage slaw and chipotle sour cream, which only slightly threatened to overwhelm each mouthful as it dripped out the flour tortilla’s back end.
#California tortilla for free
Then there’s the wall of 75 different hot sauces, which range from smoky to spicy to mouth-on-fire, which you can use for free to enliven sauce-skipping combos you build yourself (aka “self-inspired creations,” in the menu’s parlance).Īnd off the chef-inspired menu, I did have decent fish tacos, though the tips of the blackened filets were crunchy - not from any breading (they’re naked except for a spice rub), but from their dunk in the deep fryer. California Tortilla does offer things other than burritos, and most of them are much healthier than the rest of the fried, cheese-laden fast-casual cuisine padding the high-trafficked AC Expressway egress route.įor instance, you can opt to get any burrito ingredients as a bowl, instead of rolled up in a tortilla, so uneven distribution becomes a moot point as you poke around with your fork. It’s not all bad news for quasi-Mexican food fans driving through Gloucester Township. (Startup idea: CalTort, a company that offers quick legal services to CalTrain commuters during their rides?) Both were cloying.Īuthentic California taquerias were ostensibly the inspiration for “Cal Tort,” as the company is also known, but it’s apparent something has been lost in translation. From the hastily consumed first half to the latter portion, eaten four hours later, my carnitas burrito there lived up to that ideal.Īt the four-month-old Sicklerville store, my efforts to taste the pork carnitas in the Korean BBQ burrito ($7.59) were impeded by overwhelming rivulets of “sweet and spicy” Korean BBQ sauce and Sriracha chile sauce. I was recently lucky to experience true burrito greatness on a trip to San Francisco, when a friend (who happens to run a blog called ) led me to El Castillito, in the Mission District.
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