ibeacon "The belly rules the mind..."

Cancun offers good balance of quality and quantity of food.

The burritos are the staple of the place – would recommend the chicken for the non-adventurous folks, and either a mole or carne asada if you want to try something different.

The chicken salad was very fresh and good, and they have rotating specials that can be very good (plate with veg tamales thingys with a spicy red meat sauce, rice, beans, and cactus were a repeat pick for me).

The big attraction is the salsa bar. My personal favorite was the pumpkinseed salsa, but I know lots of folks rave over the fruit salsas (strawberry, mango, pineapple). The hot salsas are HOT.

No, this isn’t “authentic” Mexican (so say my friends who are Mexican food snobs) and without the salsa, the burritos don’t stand out. But the salsas are what keep people coming back, and frankly, the burrito was just a means to an end, which was me getting my pumpkinseed salsa fix for the week.

The space is OK, but it’s crowded and noisy during busy times. It can get very busy and uncomfortably crowded when the high school kids are out for lunch at nearby Berkeley High. No free parking, though a pay city lot is right next door.

Prices are OK, though probably high (maybe a $1-2 more per burrito) compared to average mom-and-pop Mexican places. But within walking distance of the west side of the Cal campus, this was the best by far.