And their food is good! It's served up cafeteria style, where they ask you for your choices of ingredients and then you watch as they make up the burrito or tacos on the spot. (You can also get the food served on a bowl of lettuce instead of on tortillas or taco shells.) This particular restaurant started to get very crowded just after we sat down with our food, and the line went clear outside the building. Obviously it's a popular place for lunch.
I ordered soft corn tacos with brown rice and black beans. I ate it all and enjoyed everything with pleasure!
When we got back home, I looked them up again online and this time I found where they actually do mention brown rice — but not in their menus like I expected to see it, instead it's listed in the "Nutrition Calculator." Select one of four choices—Burrito, Burrito Bowl, Tacos, or Salads, and they'll give you a nutritional breakdown of the ingredients.
I found that for tacos, they offer soft or crispy corn tortillas along with the usual soft flour tortilla, my choice of white rice or brown rice, and black or pinto beans. (At the restaurant, the person serving me confirmed that the black beans are vegetarian, and the pinto beans have bacon in them.)
They also mention brown rice on their "Special Diet Information" page — there in the chart, it says "cilantro-lime rice (white & brown)."
The Santa Cruz Sentinel has an interesting story about Chipotle that explains more about the restaurant(s): "Chipotle Mexican Grill, Restaurant Review: Fast Food With Santa Cruz Consciousness."
Finally, a fast-food restaurant chain that serves brown rice! And the good news is that it's growing and becoming more available in more new places. Yay!
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