Currito Downtown Cincy — Restaurant in Cincinnati

If you go here planning to get the regular burrito and compare it to Chipotle you are doing this restaurant and yourself a huge disservice... I know how it is when I go to a new restaurant I get the staple menu item as well (so I can better judge the quality) but I'm telling you that isn't what you do here... You want the Bangkok burrito. Had this place not been near my office I may have never gone here over Chipotle after my first visit because I'm really quite fond of chipotle... But a few visits in when chipotle was crowded I was experimenting with the far vaster menu and sorted out what this place was really about and it's not really about a steak burrito (although it is still good) it's about the fusion of other cultures into the burrito market. My guess is they can make the steak burrito better and choose not to simply because that isn't what they want us to order... It's like a ordering a cheese burger at a Mexican place or chicken strips at a Chinese restaurant... Or a black bean burger at a steak place... It's there for the timid people who are afraid to branch out when they show up with their more adventurous friends... but they didn't want to put it on the menu in...

Before the pandemic was my go to place for lunch since the food was good, price was comparable to Chipotle, and the service was decent. Now I avoid the place. Why? Go in there for lunch at 12 and the lines are long and slow. Go in there at 12:30 and they funnel you into one line. Usually a Currito employee or two will randomly cut in front of you and order something overly complicated for themself that slows everything up. Go in there after 1 place is basically shut down with no line but all the workers are cleaning or talking to each while you wait for them to fill your order. Prices have basically doubled in the past 5 years. Prices are now higher than Chipotle. Location has always been bad. Next to a liquor store and all the bus stops in government square which pretty much kills the atmosphere. Just...

Friendly and helpful staff. Good food and value for the money. The sanitary and cleaning habits of the staff need improvement. They kept a broom and dust pan when not in use, against the back wall, near the street entrance. When a kitchen worker came out to sweep and clean, he grabbed the pan and broom to use them. Then he was handling the broom by the end of the bristles as he finished and put the broom back in the same spot. He went back to the "make" counter in the kitched and resumed work. All the time he had on food service gloves; and he never changed the gloves, or washed his hands. So the gloves protected his hands. Someone needs to train the employees that washing hands and wearing gloves are to protect the customer from the employees and the store's bacteria, not the...