
Address and Contact Information
Address: 1412 Beacon St, Brookline, MA 02446
Phone: (617) 487-5564
Website: http://chilacatesmx.com/
Menu Photos
Order and Reservations
Order: Order online
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Reviews
Second visit. I went with a breakfast torta. It was better than the Chicken torta but it took about 17 minutes to prepare which seemed a bit excessive seeing that I was one of 2 customers present. I was also confused about the contents of the breakfast torta seeing that the menu gives no description.
When it was ready, the worker thought it’d be appropriate to ask, “China?” I was confused so he clarified, “Are you from China?” You would think that in a city like Boston in the year 2025 that that kind of question would be stupid to ask, especially to someone who speaks non-accented American English and just happens to be some kind of Asian.
The food is decent enough but I’m disappointed that my experience with Chilacates has been affected like this especially since I loved it since my college days.
I honestly have REALLY conflicting and mixed opinions about the place. It had a name to live up to, a famous name that all Brookline residents knew and loved, Anna’s taqueria. A name that became famous in my household as well as throughout many Brookline events such as the Driscoll annual festival. Anna’s taqueria always catered. Although, since the well beloved owner, Michael “Mike” Yoshiomi Kamio passed away in 2019, burrito shops have had a name to live up to in Boston. Chilacates took a brave step building a burrito shop where the original Anna’s used to be. Living up to the name and staying to the name is going to one heck of an uphill battle. When I went in, I was pleasantly surprised to smell the intoxicating waft of fresh corn tortillas, and smoked meat. Although the menu was laid out with an array of colourful pictures of Tortas, enchiladas, burritos and quesadillas I found it confusing to order. It didn’t feel like there was a lot of “wiggle-room” for a “build your own.” I felt like I couldn’t really choose what I wanted, it was only the bowl that you could pick and choose. The reason I say this is because I really wanted to add hot sauce into it and I was surprised to find that they wouldn’t put the sauce on the quesadilla. I was bummed to find that all the “goodies” (ie guacamole, sour cream & lettuce) were on the side. I thought it was weird. I also gotta say that it’s WAYYY too expensive for what it is, it came out to $45 for 2 entrées, and two elotes. C’mon man, that’s highway robbery.
EDIT
Rating: 1/5
I really wanted to try it again to give it another shot and because my cousin wanted to try it and it was dry and boring. Really boring and underwhelming