Updated Wednesday, September 1

782 burritos reviewed and mustache-rated all around the City and County of San Francisco, California.

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Recent Taqueria Visits

8/30: Taq. El Castillito is the latest high-profile Mission taqueria to underperform. What the hell’s going on around there lately?
8/26: Seems we’re in the midst of a down phase again at Taq. Can-cún. 7.58 mustaches? Oh come on.
8/24: While not as heavily mustachioed as certain prior efforts, La Salsa continues to beat the dog (so to speak) out of other burrito retailers in San Francisco’s skyscraper forest.

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We Said It

"What did we just have for dinner? What was that? It was 86 cents a bite, whatever it was."
--> Tango 20! (since mercifully closed), 7/19/2005

August Taqueria Visits

8/30: Taq. El Castillito is the latest high-profile Mission taqueria to underperform. What the hell’s going on around there lately?
8/26: Seems we’re in the midst of a down phase again at Taq. Can-cún. 7.58 mustaches? Oh come on.
8/24: While not as heavily mustachioed as certain prior efforts, La Salsa continues to beat the dog (so to speak) out of other burrito retailers in San Francisco’s skyscraper forest.
8/19: Despite a seemingly strong 8.08-mustache debut, El Rancho Grande’s burritowork stacks up as less than the sum of its parts.
8/16: Civic Center’s Los Compadres solidifies its position as one of San Francisco’s finest purveyors of vehicularly produced burritos.
8/11: One hell of a veggie contingent helps catapult La Playa Taq. into our Mustache Chart’s top 25.
8/8: We thought we had a good thing going with Mariachi’s these last few years. Then it weirds out and gets all 6.83-mustache on us.
8/3: It’s glammy purses, hella texting, and really quite extraordinary burritos at Andalé.

We Don't Know If Your Health Will Be Violated

Cleanscores.com, the site to which each of our taqueria pages link for health code ratings, is currently down. So, by the transitive property, the lion's share of our "Will My Health Be Violated?" links aren't working right now. It's a real drag, we know.

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July Taqueria Visits

7/30: Taq. La Michoacana, after over a year in business, looks like one of San Francisco’s strongest dark-horse burritoterias.
7/27: The best thing about our latest desultory visit to Taq. Gaby & Liz? Probably the napkins.
7/22: Temperature dips and a highly divisive ingredient mix spoil Mexico au Parc's latest shot at eight-mustache glory.
7/17: If La Placita had any more skeletons in its kitchen closet, the place would look like an orthopedic lab.
7/13: Taq. Dos Amigos nudges its way up and over our eight-mustache summit.
7/9: Posting a devastatingly delicious 8.58-mustache debut, Tacobar clearly means business.
7/6: Meet the new boss: El Grullo Jalisco. Very possibly the same as the old boss: Tacos El Tonayense.
7/3: It’s more mediocrity from one of San Francisco’s most popular burrito counters, Taq. Pancho Villa.

Big-ass Hiatus!

Those of you bummed by our suddenly road-feverish panel's recent three-week disappearing act will be positively crestfallen by what's coming this May and June: seven weeks on leave from Burritotown, California. We'll miss the slabular trappings of home more than almost anything, but that doesn't mean we'll be desperately slumming it at Chipotle in Lincoln or Qdoba in Dubuque. Kindly hold the fort for us until late June.

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June Taqueria Visits

6/30: New-ish Estrella Taq. on Haight kicks down a slab that's a firm seven-mustacher from the get-go.
6/28: La Corneta Taq. — the good one, in Glen Park — takes a moderate slide down our 10-Mustache Scale™.