Brooklyn's Best Burrito Secret Picnic Box Pickup

There is a burrito in Brooklyn that people will wait a full city block for. Not because it is trendy. Not because a celebrity ate there. But because Chef Alan Delgado has made something that reaches into a part of your food memory you didn't know you had and shows you what it always could have been.

The Los Burritos Juárez Picnic Box was made for exactly this: grab it, go outside, and eat something that will stop you mid-bite.

When Los Burritos Juárez opened on the border of Clinton Hill and Fort Greene, the lines stretched down the block from day one. The cult following that formed around Chef Alan's burritos is the quiet, devoted kind. People came back. Then they brought someone. Then that person brought someone else. The line became a rite of passage.

At the center of everything is the tortilla. Chef Alan grew up splitting time between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, eating guisados—deeply stewed proteins—rolled in fresh griddled tortillas made from little more than flour, lard, and care. 

After four years of dedicated experimentation, Delgado arrived at a hand-rolled, griddled tortilla that defies easy categorization. It is impossibly fluffy, slightly charred at the edges. It is a tortilla that exists nowhere else on earth but this one restaurant on this one Brooklyn block.

Wrapped inside is the Juárez tradition Alan grew up loving: guisados slow-stewed with the patience and instinct of someone who spent nearly twenty years cooking everything from French to Indian to Italian before realizing the food he was always chasing was the food of his own childhood.

The Los Burritos Juárez Picnic Box is Chef Alan's invitation to take the experience outside—because a burrito this good deserves more than a counter stool. Order ahead, pick it up, and go.

Take it to Prospect Park and find a patch of grass under a tree. Spread it across the back stoop of your brownstone on a slow Sunday afternoon. Unwrap it on a bench at the bus stop; no one who has ever held one of these burritos would judge you for that.

The box arrives packed and ready: burritos wrapped tight and warm, salsas tucked in beside them, and everything you need to make an occasion out of wherever you happen to be sitting.