Chicken soup is a staple in many cultures. Uncommon in most Mexican taco shops Jorge's Mexicatessen is a glorified taco shop. The menu is no greater larger than most erto's. 90 reviews and 54 mention the chicken soup. It is good, usually the small will do if your getting taco's or splitting a burrito, but the large will satisfy most anyone's appetite. Chunks of soft shredded chicken in a fairly clear broth. Rice and seasonings topped with avo. What kinda turned me off was the salsa fresco, tomatoes, onions, cilantro. I could have done with half the tomatoes and onions or just use the onions to make the broth, not thrown in at the end.

The California burrito had potato's instead of fries, but was not a tightly wrapped burrito, but a floppy pocketed mess. Tasty, but they did offer me flour or corn. Can you imagine a burrito that sloppy in flour would have been twice as bad in corn.

As interesting as the name is Mexicatessen implies delicatessen, which it is not. The soup is 4.5 stars and a must try, but the burrito was 3 stars. The meat was mediocre, no fries, sloppy. They should call themselves Jorge's soup and taco shop, not Mexicatessen. Since the rating is overall I can't bring myself to go above a 4 stars without the majority of the rest of the menu being as superb as the soup. This is highly doubtful as of the hundreds of Mexican taco shops, erto's, restaurants maybe just a handful are 5 star worthy, from top to bottom.