How Bandito Burrito Co.'s 'The Raven' came to be.
“We were always getting cabbies come in to eat,”. “There was one girl, she was a cabbie, and her name was Raven.”
After a while of ordering the same sans-cheese, beans-and-rice burrito, according to Gutierrez, She’d come in and pull up and we got to the point where she’d just hold her finger up if she wanted one or if she wanted two . By the time she got in to the counter it was waiting on her. We ended up putting it on the menu.”Matt Wake
Local food tastes even better when it doesn’t murder your checking account. The Raven still goes for only three bucks, just a dollar or so more than a bean burrito from Taco Bell. Amid 2023 food prices, value is especially valuable right now It’s dependable, effective and tasty food working-class people can afford. That’s increasingly rare in the Huntsville market, where lunch at a local place today often runs more than an arena-concert ticket did back in Bandito’s first year of operation.As anyone who’s been to Bandito Burrito Co. knows, the vibe there’s also a huge part of the experience. It’s not a carefully curated deal either. It’s decades of punk-rock ephemera that’s accumulated on the cozy dining room walls.
With his goatee, cackling laugh, and stream-of-consciousness quips, Gutierrez has been a Huntsville anti-hero for a long time. If Huntsville ever issues its own currency or stamps, Oscar’s visage should be on one of them. Bandito employees past and present love him.Huntsville’s first Mexican restaurant, El Palacio
In 2016, Oscar’s daughter Rachel Gutierrez, recalled, “Back then people weren’t as open to look for hole in the wall places like us,” Rachel says. “People would pull in the parking lot and look at our menu through the window because they didn’t want to commit to coming inside. Many times my dad would go out to the car and persuade them to come in. A lot of those people ended up being our regulars.
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