Curious about the breakfast burritos at BanditBurrito in Johnston, I took a long stroll up Merle Hay fromMadison one sunny Sunday morning to give them a try.
Bandit builds their burritos with moist scrambled egg, shreddedcheese, substantial cubes of potato, green chile sauce, andbreakfast meat du jour. On this visit it was huge, tender chunks ofmeaty ham.
Having enjoyed burritos from train-side vendors in El Paso,Albuquerque, and Las Vegas, N.M. I can testify that the greenchile served here is very comparable in texture and consistencyas the burrito I enjoyed in sleepy Las Vegas. However I much preferthe burritos from the bigger cities where they employ chopped androasted green chile instead of chile stew.
Nonetheless Bandit's green chile sauce, made with chiles, pork,and stock is excellent. A chunkier variant would make afine stew, perfect a classic New Mexican smotheredburrito.
I also tried a breakfast burrito sans the ham but with theaddition of watermelon salsa. Tasty but a little watery withoutrice to soak up the juice.
A few weekends' later I found myself stranded in Valley Junctionand was crestfallen to have found one of my favorite haunts – GiffWagner's 5th St. Pub – had changed ownership and was now G. Mig's 5th Street Pub. I waspleased to find little had changed inside, except for behind thebar where the kitchen area had transformed from a small grill and a duo of stackedconveyor ovens to a full-fledged grill and stove-top.
Along with the upgraded cooking surfaces, the menu too hasundergone a transformation. The new weekend breakfast menu offers upsuch familiar standards as omelets, pancakes, eggs, meat, hashbrowns, toast, biscuits with sausage gravy, and a top-notchbreakfast burrito.
Migsie's Burrito features a jalapeño-cheddartortilla filled with sliced links of chorizo, a trio of scrambledeggs, a plank of crispy hash browns, cheddar-jack cheese, slicesof avocado, poblano chiles, green onions and a chipotle aioli. Theburrito packs so much flavor into its tidy package that it rendersthe sides of sour cream and salsa unnecessary. It's an awesome,unique burrito and a serious contender to my favorite breakfast intube form, Abelardo'shash brown burrito [seeblog post].
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