La Costa II, 621 Colton Avenue, Redlands, CA 92374 (909) 792-1337

A family favorite, I eat their weekly. When it burnt, we shifted to the San Bernardino location at 464 South Mt. Vernon (off Mill) , and they're very different restaurants. We also go to the one in Mentone. Today, I ordered the lunch special chile verde burrito. It was huge. The burrito was about seven inches long, a very large flour tortilla, with chunks of fork=tender pork, served semi-wet (there was no sour cream) with tomatillo sauce and cheese, with about half a cup of refried beans inside the burrito. It came with about 1/2 a cup of green salad with ranch dressing. It was very good, even if I prefer beef to pork burritos. It was an extremely good value at $6.95. I had it with a large (32 ounce) water with a lemon. I always enjoy the little things at La Costa, from the King Puff mints with the check, to the orange slice. Very Redlands. Always full.

Super Burrito, Waterman, San Bernardino

I'm a big fan of what Wikipedia calls the San Francisco Burrito (I'm in no mood for linking tonight), and I've found that Southern California has inferior burritos. The Bay Area has inferior tacos, so it's even. Anyway, I like Super Burrito. Of course, I like that they put beet red cherry syrup in coke to make it a cherry coke. I think they use Smart & Final. I digress. I meant to order a carne asada burrito, (this was yesterday) but I ordered a carnitas with rice. The options I got when I ordered the carnitas burrito was, do you want beans and rice or just meat. Inexplicably, I said just rice and meat, when I should have said meat. I like Spanish rice, but all meat had to have been better.