I must confess, Viva Burrito is my go-to place for those late night cravings. I get the fish tacos every time. They're tiny, but they pack big flavor with that tangy tartar sauce.
Things to know before you go: This place is a total dive. Only use the drive-thru. Seriously, the dining room is not an option. Also, Viva is totally cheap -- Â you can get a meal for less than $5.
It's not a place I'd go in to eat but it is around the corner from my house. Not only is it open 24/7 but it's WAY better than the Taco Bell around the corner. They give you tons of salsa and each time it's different (guessing it's made there?). The food is cheap and delicious. My favorite place to go, especially after a night out at the bars! My boyfriend loves it. :)
Review Source:Alright here's the deal... don't come here for a comfortable dining experience. Come here for the best Mexican/best fast food in Colorado.
Super cheap. Super good.
I can eat their rolled tacos (think tacquitos) all day long! You get tons of food for very good price. Just don't eat inside...
24 hour open drive-thru... so good...
This was my 3rd visit or so during lunch time. Â The staff is well spoken and friendly. Â I ordered chile rellenos combo and went to the restroom to wash my hands.. Â no paper towel, hand dryer out of order. Â dang.. Â this bathroom was checked over 4 months ago.. thats what the bathroom check off sheet said.... had to wipe on my pants and got out.
about 5 minutes later my meal came out.. humongus pc of chile with side of generic lettuce and beans.. and a drink for about $7. Â I guess it's pretty good deal from fresh mexican meal..
food tasted pretty good and i thought it was very good value for the money..
this place needs major updates.. Â original jack in the box many many years ago and nothing has been updated since then.. Â
BYO towels. Â this is just an after thought.. Â how does staff dry there hands?
I have been going to Viva Burrito for many, many years. Â
It is not close to where I live, so I must go out of the way to get there, but it is very worth the trip. Â I have tried many of their items and they are always good. Â But what keeps me coming back are the scrumptious breakfast burritos available anytime, but seem to taste better in the early morning hours. Â I get the "B - Bacon Breakfast Burrito add sour cream." Â -faints-
With these breakfast burritos, which are served on homemade flour tortillas, the price is right, they are hearty to the extreme and I always leave with a smile on my face. Â Who could ask for anything better?
If you live near or far, there are many locations, and it is worth the drive. Â Also pick up a horchata while you are there. Â You'll be glad you did.
This is one of several locations, and I've been to it a few times since it's close to home. Â Burritos are decent, though the tacos are probably a little better. Â They have a good mix of meats, though inexplicably they were out of carnitas at 6 pm on a Saturday when I stopped by on the way out for the evening. Â I enjoy the adobada and carne asada tacos the most, though at some point I'd still like to try that carnitas plate. Â Their salsa is pretty runny, and I prefer it to be thicker, but other than that it's fine. Â The food is cheap, and they even have a drive-through if you want to do it that way. Â They're open late as well if you need some food and want something better than the usual options at that hour. Â It's nothing outstanding, but it'll do if you need something quick.
Review Source:I have been meaning to review this place for a while. Â Generally, genuine mediocre mexican food. Â But tonight ordered the beef enchiladas - no lettuce, no onion. Â I recieved two soggy rolled somethings filled with yucky peppers and onions, one had a small peice of shredded beef in it. Â Seriously, I have had several thousand enchiladas in my life and never had one with peppers. Â The reason!?!, its effing horrible! If you want to try something different, by all means, but let me know that it is your idiotic take on it. Â These would be better advertised as fajitas with crappy sauce. Â Truth be told, I will hit them back for their breakfast burritos, they are marginal, and they actually use french fries in them, which seems a little ghetto, but 3 minutes as opposed to 20 for Gomez often wins.
Review Source:Horrible service, as soon as me and my girlfriend entered we were greeted with no acknowledgment. Also the cashier was quite rude.
Little pet peeve, Siera mist coke machine was completely out without a sign stating so. Unknowingly I took a big gulp of what I thought was Siera Mist, instead my mouth was greeted by carbonated water. I asked if they had anymore, they stated they were out. This made it even more apparent to put a sign next to the sign they already had up for another Pepsi product that was out of order.
Moving on, my lady had enchiladas, which she enjoyed very much.
while I had the breakfast burrito, as hinted by someone else hold off on the potatoes or the whole burrito will be potatoes.
Dessert was great, cant quite remember the name.
I give this place 1 star for horrible first experience. Â I'm a pretty big fan of breakfast burritos ...I ordered the standard breakfast burrito (egg, potato, cheese, bacon and chile) to go, and I was totally let down ! When I took my first bite ... all egg shells ... totally disgusting. Â I will not be going back to Viva Burrito - no thank you.
Review Source:VIVA BURRITO! My husband went and got us breakfast burritos from here last weekend, because unfortunately Santiago's stops serving them at noon.
So I figured we'd give this place a try and, I am very picky about my Mexican food, ESPECIALLY my breakfast burritos. I had the sausage, egg, potato, and cheese burrito.. and to say the least.. Their tortillas are homemade which is kind of nice but you can taste the sugar in them, and not anywhere near as good as the tortillas from Taco Rapidos! The burrito was full of potatoes, and didn't have very much sausage or egg, and the potatoes pretty much was the light of my burrito which was very dis-satisfying. I maybe ate 4 bites before I put it down, because it was plain, and nothing to get over the top about. My husband thought they were pretty good so that was ok for me, but I will not be back here. I would rather drive the extra miles to get the best burritos in town at Taco Rapidos! Yumm
This place is a bit in need of a facelift but the food is good. The carnitas burrito was a great value at $4.99 ($3.99 + $1.00 for green chile). Moist, but not greasy pork (and lots of it) piled in a large tortilla topped with innocuous green chile sauce and served with overly smooth guacamole. The meat was by far the best part of the meal. (They need to work on their green chile sauce).
My hubby's fish taco looked dry and unappetizing and his ham torta was inconsequential.
I'd recommend the burrito however I wouldn't go out of my way for it.
2.5 stars and I know that is cheating.
We ate lunch here on whim this Sunday and had an OK meal.
Tracie's carnitas burrito was tasty and filling. She is having the leftover for breakfast tomorrow.
My ham torta was boring. I expected way more flavor. Lack of condiments is a problem. Even Taco Bell has a better selection.
I am giving this place an A for its breakfast burritos. I have to tell them to hold off on the potatoes or the whole burrito is potatoes.
I get egg bacon and cheese, and both sauces are thin, but good.
I haven't eating anything else from this place ...so can't say how anything else is..
It doesn't seem like the cleanest place, but most of these mexican dives aren't..
BREAKFAST BURRITOS ARE GREAT (WITH NO POTATOES)
While I can't say that everything here is great (I haven't tried much), I enjoy their Carnita's plate very much!
It isn't as good as a sit down restaurant, but for 7 dollars and at three in the morning, their carnitas aren't bad at all. It is a hefty amount of food too and I am a big guy and it fills me up.
I have tried something else from them and it wasn't great, so I say just tread the waters cautiously.
Simple no frills type of fast Mexican food. Â I like their carnitas burritos and every taco but the chicken...
Make sure you ask what's in the burrito before you order it. Â That way you know what you're getting. Â Always use the salsa they give you, it's delicious.
The beans are made with real lard, at least they taste like that.
Anything you get here is way better than anything you can get at Taco Bell.
Viva Burrito is good, not great. Â We went there last night and while the lady at the register seemed nice and upbeat, our orders were all messed up. Â There's usually a different girl there, who is not very friendly...but, at least she always has our order right. Â I'd rather have a cranky person giving me food as long as I get what I ordered over a friendly girl who just isn't listening. Â I got the carnitas plate and that was really good; Â I was full after. Â My husband always gets the chicken and cheese enchiladas with the green sauce. Â Their green sauce is so good, very spicy. Â He always says it reminds him of his moms...which is why he always gets that. Â This is the only place out here that even comes close to what we're used to back home (in Chicago). Â The other plus they're open 24 hours and the kitchen seems pretty clean back there. Â It's our late go-to place.
Review Source:I didn't think this place was that bad at all. Yeah the inside isn't that great looking, there was a bullet hole in the window, and they put the food on styrofoam plates and give you plastic utensils. The quality of food at their prices makes up for it though. They really aren't as bad as some of the reviews I've read since I have been to quite a few horrible traditional Mexican restaurants.
Review Source:Love the chips and guacamole here, a big portion of hot chips and a considerable amount of guac topped with a little bit of white cheese for only $3.
I'm also a fan of the churros, they are so coated in a cinnamon-sugar and big and HOT, so crispy outside and fluffy inside. The sugar gets everywhere, but that's okay by me. Those get 5 stars
I would recommend avoiding the Super Nachos; it gets cold fast, there's not really any cheese, the steak isnt the best quality steak, and in plain it's just...not that good. Â I had a beef burrito and it was seriously bland shredded beef with onions and bell peppers. That's it! so disappointing. And I mean BLAND, it shouldve been called pot roast.
But as a night owl I love that it's open 24 hours
I have been a loyal viva customer for years now. However, I strictly stay with the breakfast burrito menu.
The option C (or chorizo) burrito is great. They are huge, filling, and inexpensive. Make sure to apply the provided salsa inside the burrito.
I would stear clear of the other menu items. The nachos are really no bueno. Just stick with breakfast and everything will be alright.
I take my breakfast burrito quite seriously. This is often due to the fact that I am most unfortunately hung over and need to pick my remedy with care and concern for my well being. Such decisions are not to be made lightly. Today however I was hangover free and my friend came rolling by my pad on his Harley early this morning.
What was that noise ??? Ummm it COULD have been my hungry tummy rumbling but I tried to play it off as ...well anything. So after admitting we were both starved we ventured out on the bike for a burrito in close proximity to home. Viva Burrito fit the bill.
Does this place produce the same caliber of breakfast burrito as Chubby's, my all time, cure it, fix it, no you aren't dying Jenn, place? No it doesn't. Am I still alive after eating here? Yes I am! It wasn't half bad. It was pretty darn A-OK ! Salty comes to mind. But it could have been worse. The bacon was plentiful and the potatoes were yummy. We ordered a B and a C and two medium drinks. The total was just over 10 bucks. It seemed like a fair "ish " price to pay but it was not all fat and perfect like my Chubby burrito. It was good though, really, and I was sober!
The place was super clean and that is always a bonus. We have all been to places that cause you to wonder ...should I be eating here? Should I be here after dark? Should I be here at all? I didn't get that oh so scary "Survivor" vibe here, which is good. I was full and have half left. It's waiting for me in the fridge ... my "in case of emergency" burrito. It is almost the weekend after all!
I've spent many drunk nights waiting in this drive through and all I can say is that I'm completely over it. If not for the nights of debauchery at bars/clubs, there is no way i'd be caught buying food from here.
I've come here sober and the only thing that tastes as good sober as when you're drunk are their dry starchy breakfast burritos.
Simply not the best but good for an after bar/club grab. Not the cheapest prices for quality of food but hey it's not the worst either. I'll be back either driving drunk friends or in the passenger seat of a car, drunk myself.
We stopped here last night for some after bar food...would have been better off going to taco bell.
Carnitas torta, carnitas burrito, 3 rolled tacos w/ guac, 2 carne asada tacos, chips = $20
Do not order the rolled tacos, they taste like the burnt delimex version you find at Sams. Â
The carnitas burrito was literally meat and tortialla, no beans no rice, no salsa. Â It was weak.
They did give us a lot of salsa, but pretty sure we were charged for it. The torta was reasonable but like the burrito, extremely plain, meat, lettuce, maybe a smidge of guac.
Why can't el taco be open late!!
I was looking for a great breakfast burrito and found this place. They have a variety of fillings to choose from, and the burritos are really great!
It looks like a run down little restaurant, and it'd be easy to pass by, but you should definitely stop to try it out. I've only been through the drive thru, but that's all I usually do for a late night  breakfast burrito.
I'll definitely be going back there again, and often! Great for a late night meal after a night on the town.
I'd say this is one of the best burritos in town. Â I haven't tried much else, because I stick to the goods when I find them.
It's authentic in that yeah you might get a little grizzle with your carne asada, but its so tasty for less than $3.50 a burrito. Â The breakfast bacon or chorizo burritos are top notch. Â I used to drive past this place on the way home from boozing downtown and it never disappointed, if I'm in the area I make sure to drive thru, yeah don't go inside it will make you not like it.
Oh, and I just found out the have a salsa verde after 4 years and its good, ask for both green and red.
is this really the only 24 hour taco shop in town?
the food is okay, I mean it does the trick at 1am.
the meat and chicken is always dry, has almost no flavor and you have to drowned it in the cheap, but hot, salsa. I think they are obsessed with potatoes, they put them in everything, it seems.
maybe you can lead me to a better 24 hour joint.
What can I say? The food is questionable but cheap. The place is not exactly clean but I hear the ceiling used to have a massive leak and that's fixed now, so that's good.
J and (some of) his high school friends are devotees to Viva, and I've heard its praises for years. So when I finally tried it, I don't know if I knew just how questionable the experience would be. For $2.75, I got a chorizo breakfast burrito, which was fine but made me feel nervous just eating it. The real serious winning feature of this joint is the horchata--the sweet, wonderful, gigantic horchata. Do NOT miss that.
I work near here, (no I won't say where) and around 3 a.m. I am always so sad that my only food options seem to be McDonald's or diner joints off Colfax. Â Viva Burrito is an institution. Â It's one of those places either you love and defend, or hate and slander. Â No middle ground.
The drive through is 24 hrs and the menu is outdated and the intercom sucks. Â The staff are all sorts of young folk that pretend they don't understand your order. Â The food is CHEAP GOOD EATS! Â I mean really cheap! Â The chicken burrito, the carne asada, the tejuano potato burrito are all awesome. Â The best part is a watery rip your face-off salsa. Â Also, even when ordered and requested I have never gotten the free coffee that's clearly advertised on the menu when you order a breakfast burrito.
The place is a dive, it's dirty, it's questionable at best for it's sanitary conditions. Â I love it! Â None of my coworkers will eat here....but I will defend it to the end. Â I always mean to go poke around the foreign markets in the strip mall behind the leetsdale location.....looks very intriguing!
In two words: good, cheap.
This is a little hole-in-the-wall joint with pretty good carne asada burritos and really good fried tacos. If you've never had fried tacos, you are not living life to the fullest. Everything is better when it's fried.
The downside: the meat is pretty low quality (i.e. taco bell would look down on them in disdain), and if you don't speak at least "restaurant Spanish" you will have a hard time communicating.
Even with the low quality of the ingredients, this place has its own little niche in my heart.
This place is actually pretty good! If you can't handle the interior, which isn't super clean - navigate your way through the 4x4 drive-through.
The chicken tacos are really good - white meat chicken in a crispy corn taco shell. Carnitas tacos are savory and they are generous with the meat (these are soft flour tacos). I think you can switch up the taco shell type if you ask...
Ye, the breakfast burritos are heavy on the potatoes but Viva Burrito is WAY faster than that Santiagos on Leetsdale if you're jonesing for one. Plus, i think you get a free coffee with each order (which i have not dared to try).
They've also got 'filled' churro for a incredible sugar-high if you're into that kind of thing.
Is it the best place in the world? No. But given that the closest really, really good tacos (Tacos Y Salsa) are on Peoria and Colfax, this'll do for a quick taco-break.
This place is terrible. Â I've gone 4 or 5 times now because when given the choice between a large chain(Taco Bell) or a smaller company I always like to go for the little guy. Â I keep going and I keep hoping that they get better. Â
The employees are rude and the one time I ate in the lobby there was a rotting jalepeno pepper wedged between the wall and the bench where we first sat. Â It had clearly been there for a couple of weeks and was very visible from standing position(does anyone clean the lobby??)
Avoid this place, it's not worth your money.
First of all, what the hell are potatoes doing in any burrito? Second of all, what are they doing in a "normal" burrito for lunch?
This place is pretty skanky. The bathroom was a scary mix of permagrime and the smell of disinfectant, reminding me of my youth in Baltimore's public school system (see The Wire, season 4).
The burrito was decent for the very low price. But I wouldn't recommend it, either. I would just go find a real burrito, or a Taco Bell (high road, low road, just not this road).
Why two stars? The guys here were really nice.
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