Their meats are gristly and their overarching flavor is cilantro, which is currently overused in American-Mexican restaurants and is a cloying flavor that temporarily paralyzes human taste buds, making other flavors harder, or impossible, to taste distinctly and clearly. Any restaurant that uses as much flavor-hiding cilantro as Chipotle is hiding something else about their food, and, if ordered without the cilantro, it’s obvious what.