Look at that fucking menu. It's so badass. Boy is even wearing CONVERSE SHOES. This is almost "Mission Taco" level epic.
Chavita’s Numero 2 (3161 24th St and South Van Ness) is by far one of my favorite breakfast spots in the city. The short of it is this: your entire check, tax and tip will be less than 6 bucks and the food is pretty good. Don’t get me wrong, I love standing in line for 45 minutes and paying 13 bucks for a tofu scramble and O.J. at Bugaloos, but, you know, no one is patient when they’re hungover from drinking a couple of Latin American Club margaritas.
This is what you need to know:
- Every time you walk in the door, they greet you with a big basket of delicious chips and salsa
- Pretty much every item on the breakfast menu is just $4 before 10 a.m.
- There is never a line
- If you are crafty, you can choose you own adventure (pictured above) by ordering a random cacophony of ingredients to make your own minimalist tacos. The entire plate will cost you a few bucks.
- They squeeze their own orange juice and it will only run you $3 for a tall glass.
Unfortunately, I rarely see anyone in this place anymore given the struggle Mission Taquerias have been facing lately. I hope they make it.
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Yes, he is wearing Cons. But he also has two left feet.
Again, badass
Man, so do I… “’cause I’m a dancin’ foo-oo-oo-oo-oo-ool”!
Thanks for the tip, Kev.
“Us Latinos, we don’t consume any longer.” Viva la Raza.
Finally, someone recognized one of my favs for breakfast.
And you forgot to mention the service is fast and the orders are huge!
But we still miss that lovely -and hotty- waiter who worked there until last year.
are the prices significantly higher after 10 am? because, you know, I’ve never had brunch that early in my life.
Breakfast goes up to 5 bucks. Generally, everything there is on the cheap.
Great post – I’ll check it out. $6?! That’s nuts! Also, re: taquerias needing to rely on Anglo$, another Mission St vs Valencia St culture war going on in our very own taquerias?
And P.S. everyone knows that on 24th St that you wait 45 minutes and pay $13 for tofu scrambles and organic hand squeezed orange juice by baby orphans at St. Francis Fountain, not Boogaloos
What hurts a lot of these places is the fact that many of them are simply not memorable. Places like Cancun stand out b/c they have the best goddamn tasting tortilla of any burrito joint in the City. I mean, it’s like a flat, mexican croissant. If you can’t do anything to distinguish yourself from the other 17 tacquerias on the same block, well, not everybody is going to survive.
Dave, “a flat, Mexican Croissant”… is just brilliant. I lived at 14 in a tiny Mexican town (the stories about my life there would blow your mind) and the local tortilla factory put out stuff that was just that. I would be curious how you stand on the north-south theory, that in California, the food gets better as you go south. My thinking is that due to the massive migration this is no longer the case. Basically California from Santa Rosa on down is one big latino food love-fest. But on the other hand, good luck with croissants. Except at 18th and Guerrero.
There are plenty of other breakfast gems in the Mission, particularly Jarritos and Torta Gorda. I worry that mentioning them here will result in having to wait for a table at either in the future, but realize that if people haven’t checked these places out yet, then it’s because they like to wait outside and be seen.
dang, i didn’t want word to get out about this place.
I felt the same way for a while, then I decided it staying in business was probably a better long-term strategy.