Willie R.
Yelp
It's kind of easy to walk past Burrito Brothers without knowing it's there, as it sits snuggled next to a salon on a quiet part of Penn. When you walk in, you realize that the place is indeed as small as the Yelp reviews describe, but there are about ten or twelve chairs at a high-top bench/tabletop in here (no tables).
Taking advantage of the $2 off check-in special, I ordered a barbacoa quesadilla with yucca. I. Love. Yucca! Especially with the right sauce. Now, their yucca was nice, hardy (but not hard), and fresh, but their dipping sauces leave all of the things to be desired. One has bubbles all over the top of it and is an almost chemically green color, the second is an unidentified, nearly tasteless brown sauce whose identity I can't peg, and the third is a green chile sauce with a kick.
The quesadilla was interestingly made into two pockets, rather than the traditional style quesadilla. Each pocket came wrapped in foil and was piping hot. The barbacoa beef was well-marinated, albeit a tad overcooked, and the veggies inside were fresh.
I have to ding Burrito Brothers a bit for cleanliness--I went to grab plastic utensils and they were all...well, dirty. I don't mean "a little dusty." I mean that I kept looking toward the bottom of the pile until I found a clean fork. The door to the hallway with their cleaning supplies and such is left wide open, which is just a little off putting. However, the restaurant as a whole was not unclean.
Those items aside, I would rate BB as an average restaurant. The quesadilla and yucca were $12 after the $2 discount, which is a tad pricey for a restaurant that most would affectionately label a hole in the wall. They had a great radio playlist on, though, and Daddy Yankee kept me going. This won't become my go-to place for Mexican food, but it may just be my convenient yucca stop!