Giiiiirl, Angela's does not give a darn about your diet. They're putting french fries on the burrito. Fries. On the burrito! Wtf...that is so wrong and so right at the same time. I'll have to pop in a Jillian Michaels workout DVD after it digests, but it will be well worth it.
If I was the type to party in Lincoln Park, this would make for ideal hangover prevention food.
They have the BEST burritos in Lincoln Park! The California Burrito is hands down my favorite item on their menu. Whoever thought adding french fries to a burrito was a pure genius. Their service is always very fast and the people that work there are incredibly friendly. The prices are very reasonable as well.
Review Source:I called to place an order and was asked to hold, to which I politely agreed. Â He put the phone down on the counter and never came back to it. Â After five minutes, my girlfriend tried yelling into the phone to get their attention, while I tried calling from another line. Â They didn't respond to either. Â We began searching for a different burrito joint while waiting on hold, found one, and ordered from them. Â At the end we called Angela's back just out of curiosity; their phone was still off the hook. Â Mediocre food coupled with bad customer service? Â Forget about it. Â There are too many other options in Chicago to treat your customers that way.
Review Source:Angela's is great for picking up some drunk grub at the end of a long night, but that's about it. For a girl from socal, their california burrito was disappointing, just some steak, guac, and veggies all rolled into a tortilla. Nothing special. Maybe it was the lush-standards I had at 2am in the morning, but I probably will make myself a bowl of spaghetti-o's next time I find myself with the drunk munchies.
Review Source:*When drinking starts to tip
And the stomach starts to itch
Go burrito (cha cha cha) go burrito (cha cha cha)
If your speech gets too slurry
Get some food in a hurry
Go burrito (cha cha cha) go burrito (cha cha cha)
*Inspired by the friendly service, delicious red salsa and perfectly crispy tortilla wrapped around the carne asada burrito I had at Angela's Burrito Style. Â Check it out (cha cha cha)!
This review is from a Southern Californian POV, just saying up front.
Nothing makes me happier than Carne Asada fries or a California burrito. There is an obvious lack of these items in the Midwest, so naturally I was super excited when I found them in a Mexican joint in Lincoln Park. A friend and I ordered the Carne Asada fries and California Burrito. Both were a little short of bad, and since the ingredients are very similar, this review is kind of meant for both.
It's not so much that the ingredients themselves were awful, but the food itself was done completely wrong. First of all, you do not use seasoned fries. When combining mexican food with french fries, you should let the meat and salsa and guac to be the outstanding flavors, and ideally, you should use thin, moderately crispy plain, salted french fries. Things go wrong when you add those awful orange, pre-seasoned frozen fries here.
Secondly, nacho cheese/cheap queso dip should not be in the mix either!!! There should have been a generous mound of real mexican shredded cheese thrown in at the end so that when served, the fries would have that nice gooey melted cheese mountain on top!
Also, the meat was a little too fatty, which is never good when you have carne asada chunks. You don't want to be chewing on those gummy pieces, you should have nice juicy pieces of real meat. Â
Finally, there should be a nice, tangy tomato salsa on top, not just chunks of tomatoes. But this is the least of their mistakes so it could have been forgiven if everything else was okay.
So, to sum it all up, if you want real delicious Carne Asada fries and a Califonia burrito, you need to go to SoCal. Period.
Honestly, a pretty good place for great-tasting and cheap Mexican. Definitely one of my favorite places for a quick bite and all the people there are super friendly. Definitely recommend the shrimp tacos. It's not the fanciest place which is fine because most people prefer it to-go but if you're in the mood for cheap Mexican, Angela's is the place to go.
Review Source:The only reason people are going to the nearby Chipotle instead of Angela's is because they don't know about Angela's.
For its price range, it's one of the best places for Mexican food around the North Side. Guac here is very good and fresh, and I would recommend the California-style burritos (=fries instead of rice).
The food here is ok but the customer service is absolutely horrible. Â As fairly regular customers they got our order wrong and absolutely refused to believe that they got it wrong so we ended up with a meal we didn't order.
Believe me i have low standards for Mexican but this place is beneath them.
At Angelas the customer is always wrong.
I would give them zero stars if that was a choice.
The 4 stars go straight to the fact that they have Carne Asada Fries. Â Yes, you heard right - CARNES ASADA FRIES as in San Diego-esque carne asada fries. Â Not just burrito fillings thrown on top of fries, but close to the real deal. Â You just have to ask for no lettuce if you want it to me more "authentic-ish". Â I found out the hard way, but it wasn't a deal breaker. Â So far, this is really the only place I know of that has this so it's a winner with me - doubt i'd even eat anything else as I have my go to taco place already (la pasadita!).
This isn't anywhere near me, but since it's a cross the street from my hair place, I get to induldge every couple of months so it doesn't get old!
Let me preface this review by saying that my memory of Angela's Burrito Style is foggy, at best. Therefore, it may not be entirely accurate.
I do know that I got a California burrito al pastor, because that is what my receipt said the next day.
I do remember hovering over my friend's countertop like a cavewoman, shoveling delicious food into my mouth. I recall the burrito tasting amazing.
Lastly, I remember getting a message a couple days later from my friend who found my leftovers in her fridge. It went something like this: "you left what I think used to be a burrito in my fridge. even though it is a mess, it looks delicious. do you think I can still eat it?". Okay, so maybe that last part is made up.
Sadly for her, it had been too long since the burrito's purchase.
So to sum this up, if you are looking for late night eats (and maybe during the day, but I can't be sure), Angela's is for you!
Good place for take out and also a good late night food joint.
Does not dissapoint when you have hunger pangs at 3 AM !!! It's cheap, fast and clean.
Their california burritos are excellent! They have fries inside this burrito (sheer genius I might add!) and loaded with lettuce, guacamole, sour cream, rice ...the works! Â Just be prepared for the food coma which follows!!!
Bitch. I came here again with a friend cuz they wanted a burrito. This time they got her order right. But mine was wrong. I asked for a large california with carne asada, well I received a carne asada burrito with tons of lettuce instead. What the fuck you Fuckin bitches. Not what I asked for!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Half the burrito was lettuce. If you are hard of hearing, maybe you shouldn't be taking food orders. Best burritos in Chicago..???????????? lets not kid yourselves here. Never again.
DEAD TO ME.
You know how when you taste something so good, something you've been walking right past not eating that you could have just been happily eating all along, that the idea that you were missing out the WHOLE time makes you punch-a-wall-or-something-else mad about it?
Well, BAM!!! bitches!
I am so mad that I straight up dismissed Angela's for years and never even tried it, passing it by without thought at least a googooplex of times, because I was missing out on:
[wait for it...]
As close to real and totally authentic, deliciously trashy, straight up San Diegan approximation of:
CARNE
ASADA
FRIES
PERIOD
EXCLAMATION POINT AND MARK
!
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And - Oh shit! - they were so goooooood, too - well seasoned and crunchy batter dippy french fries, subbed the real cheese for the nacho cheese processed goop they said they usually use (don't do it!), refried beans, (kinda grizzly, but eh) meat and some really delicious guacamole.
Prices - more than fair - I don't remember how much exactly, but it was a part of our large order that all together came to like $15.
Vibe - small, quick, friendly, fast-foodish taqueria type spot in a high rent neighborhood, can get super busy at night
Guacamole - really, really, really good - like on par with your average fancy pants Mexibistro, but like a tenth of the cost - and a bonus - I saw them cutting up a bunch of gorgeous avocados in the back, so that stuff is real real.
I guess I now have to make up for judging a book by its cover or something and eat lots more fries and guacamole all over the place or something? I'll do it! I will work to right this injustice! Actually, no. I'll just go ahead and make this my Chicago carne asada fries spot - madness done.
This place deserves 4 * for the food and 1 extra bonus * because it reminds me of California! Biked here pretty drunk on a Friday night so this review is already biased because the fat girl in me takes over when the clock strikes 12 and there's alcohol in my system.
Passed by here before and saw that they serve California burritos. My boo and I are both from California so we decided to be ballsy and ask them if they could make California fries for us. The owners were open minded and asked us what was in the California fries and they said sure they would try their own version and asked for us to give them feedback when we were done. Â
The California fries they gave us had carne asada, melted cheese (like queso, not shredded cheese), lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream. The lettuce and tomatoes tasted super fresh and the sour cream wasn't too heavy. The carne asada fries I'm used to has guac + hot sauce, and no lettuce, tomatoes, and sour cream, but this was pretty damn close. The flavorful and perfectly cooked carne asada really carried the entire dish. The crispy fries didn't hurt either ;) I literally scarfed down the fries like a pig at feeding time. Thank god I have been dating my boo for a while so I don't have to fake the funk about eating habits. The owner walked by mid-feed and knew that was a good sign that we liked the fries.
We also managed to share a California burrito. First off, the tortilla was toasted. I love textures and crispy is one of my favorite textures so to incorporate crispiness into a burrito is amazing. Similar to the fries, the carne asada in the burrito was perfect. Savory, salty, and perfectly cooked meat smashed together with guac, beans (I hate beans, but I made an exception here), fries, and sour cream, *drool. The hot sauces (esp the green one) were perfect to spice everything up and kick it up a notch.
I will definitely make a drunken bike ride here again!!! Order the California fries, I dare you!
Last Visit: Saturday, April 10, 2010.
Open late, friendly staff (especially given how many drunk idiots they deal with on a daily basis), and great location in the heart of Lincoln Park. Love the burrito's here! Great value at $6.50 a pop! I am a fan of the steak burrito with everything in it! I'm not too picky when I am one of the aforementioned drunk idiots! =)
This Mexidive has a lot of balls proclaiming itself, the "Best burrito in town" and asking people to Yelp them. Â OK, hombres. Â You asked for it.
I can't believe all the Chads and Trixies that gave this little dive four and five star reviews--totally unworthy, even if they eat here at at 2 am with a .03% blood alcohol level. Â I came here for lunch and was the only person eating. Â Most of the other places were packed; its Saturday noon--time for noshing before LP'ers take their respective walks of shame back home, right?
This place is just as icky as all the other Mexican food places along Broadway and Clark I've eaten at. Â Cheap, greasy eats made for the masses with less than aficionado longings for real Mexican food. Â About the only kind thing I can say about the burrito suizo thing I had was that at least the "meat" digested OK.
Ya know folks, I've written this before in another review: once you hit your mid-30s, eating junk food at places like this at 3am isn't fun anymore.
Angela's provided me just what I needed after a long night at Neo--a greasy, veggie filled burrito.
Yum yum. Getting lost at 3am was frightening, but Angela's late night hours shone its light and led me home.
Don't let the burrito fool you--I was naive in thinking it came without consequence. I wandered over to Angela's during Lollapalooza and ordered the veggie burrito. I was put into a 4 hour coma and missed the one act I was dying to see. I hate you.
My friends adore Angela's. Â A friend even requests it for his birthday every year. I really was excited and I really wanted to like it. Â I got a veggie California burrito and cheese fries. Â The burrito had grille veggies, with cheese, guac and fries on top. Â Interesting on the addition of fries, but I liked the idea of a new take on an old staple.
Okay maybe because it wasnt 2am, or maybe because we got take away, but I was not impressed. Â The veggie California burrito was good but the fires were mushy and the taste was only average. Â Could have used more veggies too--the veggie content was def light. Â The cheese fries were good but again mushy and not that thrilling. The guac was okay, I tend to like bigger pieces of avocado and this guac just didnt...also there could have been more of it. One good thing: the burrito was not overpowered by cheese. Â I hate when there is like massive amount of melted cheese and you have a greasy mess.
The two salsas provided were good--both the red and the green had a nice kick to them.
Maybe it is just the idea of taking late night food and eating it for dinner....I mean certain foods are always going to taste delicious when are eating at 2am.  Pokey stix? Disgusting during the day--better  tasting (with a hint of college) late at night.  Maybe that is the same for Angela's. Considering my friends' devotion, I'll try them again...but probably not until the summer...I wont be making a special trip here in the winter months....it is too cold.
Angela's is home to the California Burrito:
Your choice of meat, with cheese, guac, sour cream, and french fries. Hot sauces (red and green - neither will kill you, both will open up your sinus cavity) and napkins on the side.
My friend had hyped these up to me earlier on Friday, and when we went, Angela's delivered in a big, delicious way.
Also, this place allows you to yell "ANGELA" all "Who's the Boss"-style, over and over and over again. Which is sure to be the case when I decide that I need to go here after a night of over-consuming some adult beverages.
"I have no idea where I am but the walls are painted peach and I don't see any pizza." This is the first thing I said to a friend on the phone the very first night I walked into Angela's Burrito Style two years ago. Turns out it was not a pizza place, but the best little burrito place ever, and I may have been here nearly every weekend since (for a junior steak fajita burrito).
My roommate and I are both avid drunk cheerleaders here and we will likely convince you to buy a California burrito (it has fries in it!) if you happen to wait in line with us.
I'm trying to convince the guys behind the counter to sell the salsa at the local market, but no luck so far.
The staff is great with the drunk crowd and the prices rock.
Pretty decent, and scratched my itch for cheap Mexican for lunch today. Â The whole prospect seemed dubious, as the place was deserted around 12:30 on a Sunday. Â But they have a "Yelpers love us" sticker, so I decided to trust it. Â The food was definitely fresh, as I could watch the guy make it from my seat. Â
The burrito was nothing special, C+; but the vegetable quesadilla was great, A-. Â Grilled green peppers, onions, mushrooms, and tomatoes in the standard quesadilla format but folded in half. Â For $1.95, makes a great snack or side item. Â The two squeeze-bottle salsas were strangely flavorless.
$0.50 for soda refills--booo.
Everyone goes on and on about the burritos here (and for good reason), but wow - is the guacamole underrated here. As a coworker so astutely pointed out - guac at Chipotle is $1.25 for a serving 1/4 the size of the $2 one from Angela's. You do the cost comparison.
I grew up in LA with the best of cheap, authentic Mexican food. This place is very much reminiscent of the secret hole-in-the-walls that were a dime a dozen back in CA - but it's definitely one of a kind and definitely not a secret here. The line is out the door on weekend nights (probably doesn't help that Mickey's, the OSU bar, is right down the street).
My first time? the end of New Year's Eve. True testament to dedication/love for this place: girls in super high strappy heels and glittery dresses, shivering in the cold snow but determinedly waiting for their turn to order up a burrito at 3 AM.
Alright the name itself kills me... burrito STYLE. Â Does that mean everything is made burrito style? Â Actually no...
Aside from the smell of raw sewage and drunk frat boys at 2am, this place is incredible. Â The chicken tacos are like nothing I've ever tasted... they almost have a sweet, cinnamon type taste to them that's out of this world.
The veggie (don't pronounce the g's) quesadillas are like crack wrapped in a couple of corn torillas. Â
I just met the owner's son the other day and the two of them together are adorable... family owned, family run, family feel.
I highly recommend this place over Labamba the other way down Wrightwood... the two guy in that place chain smoke and look at you funny when you order. Â At Angela's, the owner might give you the shirt off his back and extra chips as you leave. Â 5 stars and then some.
My new favorite cheap spot in Chicago. Â I almost want to go there every day. Â Huge burritos for $5. Â You can get two meals out of them easily and they taste totally original. Â I had the pork and I'm not sure but I think the base for the sauce was mamwich. Â I'm not positive but either way it was incredible. Â
I can't wait to get tanked and try a burrito from here.
This might be one of the WORST "Mexican" food experiences I've had yet. I say yet, because I'm waiting for the food poisoning to kick in.
First- prices are WAY too high. Sorry, the ingredients besides the avocado just aren't that expensive. AND if you're gonna charge me nearly $2 for a taco- you best dump on the cilantro and the avocado I paid *nearly a dollar* for. The chicken was revolting. It had no sauce, which would be nice if it were lean. But it's not. GROSS!
The tostada- man I think I paid nearly $3 for um, a tostada (basically a large, round tortilla chip). They REALLY skimped on the beans (c'mon!!! That's the best part!) and the rest of the toppings, including the above-mentioned NAST chicken.
I wanted to splurge for lunch (yeah, I'm THAT broke) and get my fave cuisine in a neighborhood that's agreeably NOT the place to find yummy Mexican food- even effin tacos! It is a fact though, that you can mess up tacos. Â I'll stick to Sultan's when lunching. The food there is SO on par with the price, if not being a great deal!
Carne asada fries. Â What? Â What in the world is that, you may be asking yourself. Â Come here and find out!!
In San Diego, every taco shop & stand sells a California burrito and carne asada fries. Â A California burrito is a carne asada burrito with guacamole, cheese and FRENCH FRIES inside! Â Carne asada fries is sort of a deconstructed California burrito. Â You take a pile of french fries, load it with carne asada, top with cheese and guacamole and inhale. Â
Now, big, huge props to Angela's, because it turns out that while they have made California burritos for anyone who asks, they were actually not familar with carne asada fries. Â But, here's where stellar customer service comes into play, because she was happy to work with me as I described exactly how they should be made. Â And they came out perfectly! Â I'm going to post a picture on my profile when I can - of course, I had to take a picture!
Now, the portion that came out could easily feed 2 or even 3 people. Â It was enormous. Â And the price she sort of threw togther based on the ingredients was under $5 with tax. Â Definitely a deal!
It wasn't the best carne asada I've ever had, so I can't do the full 5 stars. Â I recognize that I am spoiled for this by SD living. Â But the hot sauce/salsa served with was also really good.
I also had an horchata, which was very tasty. Â 50 cent refills are available.
And I wish I'd gotten the name of the girl working the counter who helped me out with this because she totally rocked!
So come here, get carne asada fries and help start a fad in Chicago!
Edit 9/1/07: Â Picture now up in my profile!
Been here a few times late night and have always been satisfied. Food is pretty standard mexican fare, the horchata is tasty.
My only complaint is that I have a habit of ordering quite a few things at 3 AM and somehow walk out spending $12. They need a combo meal menu or something. Or I just need to not order so much food.
I got a burrito here ages ago that was a "special" written on a piece of paper and taped to the drink machine - a "CALIFORNIA BURRITO"- which was carne asada with cheese and FRENCH FRIES as well as the usual fixin's in the burrito.
Oh my god. Â That was the best burrito I've had in Chicago by far. Â
Yet I can only give this place 4 stars now because they took that special down!
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