Sunday 12 September 2010

Our website has moved

Please note that our website has moved to http://www.theflyingburrito.co.uk/. This site is no longer active.

Tuesday 29 June 2010

June 29th - Día de San Pedro y San Pablo




June 29th is Saint Peter and Saint Paul's Day - Día de San Pedro y San Pablo

This feast day is celebrated nationwide wherever St. Peter is the patron saint. It's especially festive at San Pedro Tlaquepaque, near Guadalajara, with mariachi bands, folk dancers, and parades, and in other indigenous communities such as San Juan Chamula in Chiapas, Purepero in Michoacan, and Zaachila in Oaxaca.

Friday 18 June 2010

O'Zorro comes to the Flying Burrito


If Zorro made coffee, and worked in London, was Irish and had a pigeon-like command of the Spanish language, his name would be James.

James' childhood in the backstreets of Dublin was bereft of anything you might reasonably recognise as coffee. At best the muddy brown water heated and served over the counter at the local greasy spoon could be said to be a mediocre caffeine delivery solution.

Despite this impoverished background, he has been brought to the very bosom of the Flying Burrito family. Not content with merely serving the best coffee known to man, he has personally spent the last 3 years planting, caring for, loving and coaxing our triple certified 100% Arabica coffee beans into the world. Not content with one continent, he used the best Ethiopian, Peruvian and Honduran plantations. Despite not being able to pronounce his 'T H's properly, he's also a sensitive soul and the coffee is also Fairtrade, Organic and Rain forest Alliance Certified.



James will be here for the next two months. He's identifiable by a slight mullet which comes from too many years hanging out in a South American country.

Monday 14 June 2010

Free Breakfast Burrito!

Come and try our new breakfast burrito!

To celebrate the launch we are giving them away free - yes FREE! Between 8 and 10am on Wednesday June 16th.

Vegetarians and Vegans are also welcome - we can make hold the sausage and cheese no es una problema!

Sunday 13 June 2010

South Africa v Mexico

It was the opening match of the Football World Cup and I suppose we were meant to support Mexico...

But, then the Mexicans arrived and I knew we couldn't let them get away with their lousy intimidation tactics...

The atmosphere was tense.

South Africa scored!!!

Then, after being told off by our chef, Mexico equalized.



All in all the best outcome for everyone.



Friday 4 June 2010

Every house has a story

WOW! So a bunch of creative genius advertising students have made a newspaper about the strange history of East End London and we're featured on page 7!!!


The newspaper's called Ball of Chalk (Cockney rhyming slang for walk) and apparently our lovely shop used to be the haunt of the eccentric Prince Monolulu...




There are eight other interesting stories along the Analogue Augmented Reality walking tour (their words not mine) and even a flickr group.

For more information go to Wieden + Kennedy's blog or read the article on Platform -where they even call me "lovely".




Tuesday 1 June 2010

Crafty ladies

A million thank you's to Anita, Philene and Rosa for making us these beautiful napkin holders!






Love this scary little guy.







Some people will do anything to get their hands on a free burrito...


Our very own Flying Burrito!