z-teca

I eat here all the time and absolutely love it! Favourite place to go to satisfy my Mexican food cravings. You gotta try the burrito bowl with chipotle sauce!
The only downside is that the food’s a bit expensive: I usually pay around $ 12 for my meal, but you get a lot of bang for your buck.

My fiancé and I came to Z Teca this evening to curb our taco and nacho cravings. Aesthetics of the restaurant were great but unfortunately it was all down hill from there. We ordered 3 tacos — which we were double charged for. And an order of chicken nachos with a side of guac– which upon opening at home included no chicken and no side of guac. Luckily we caught the double charge for the tacos and the manager was happy to refund us our money. As far as flavour goes, we found both dishes to be mediocre at best and the presentation was sloppy. Definitely more to be desired at an establishment that labels itself a gourmet burrito restaurant.
Overall not a horrific experience but Z Teca definitely gets a «Needs Improvement» from us.

People claim this is better than chipotle. as I eat it, I start to question «have they even HAD chipotle???» because this place has 0 comparison to the queen (chipotle)
This place is a mess, first of all. They really need to enforce the ‘no eating at the tables in the restaurant unless you’re an actual paying customer’. how many students with bags of popeyes, thai express, or hero burger end up sprawled out at the tables so that the actual zteca customers have no choice but to carry their food to another part of the school, hopefully to find an empty seat to devour their food at? The lines move quickly though (not as fast as chipotle, but not slow). Their quality is not as great as chipotle because a lot of it doesn’t seem fresh as I bite into it, but their steak really had good flavour. The bowl is a bit smaller than chipotle’s but then again, it’s $ 2 cheaper. They only have 1 type of rice and 1 type of bean, which is a tiny bit disappointing.
Let’s be honest though– for campus food, it’s pretty good!

It’s like the manager thought, «How can we take Chipotle and make everything worse?»
Portion sizes are ¹⁄₃ the size of Chipotle.
Everything tastes blander and with less flavor.
They were charging extra for vegetables
Avoid. Bad businesses deserve to go out of business.

I only tried them twice; one for chicken bowl and the other for the veggie bowl. I was not impressed with the lack of flavour, they serve bigger carb portions then chicken so its not worth the price. in addition to blandness, the chicken and veggies are served room temperature.
they charge close to chipotle when they’re not close. this place needs a better vision to survive the burrito market.

Still love the salads… Have been coming here regularly for the steak salad bowl which is delicious. You can add two salsas and I recommend the hot one although it’s not that hot. I only wish this place had a selection of hot sauces like chipotle does.

I always get the Chicken Burrito Bowl. It’s not the best I’ve ever had but not bad if you’re looking for something healthy and low carbs at York! It’s around $ 10 but low on proportion compared to Burrito Boyz half size naked bowl. Also agreeing with other comments, just lack flavour. Especially the rice and chicken but the toppings and salsa somewhat help balance the taste.
I usually find seats here so just get food from here too.
Tip– ask for more sauce/​salsa because you’ll end up with dry rice

Pricey and stingy on their portions. Its really sad that you have to ask for more meat on your burrito because they give you TWO pieces of whatever you choose (chicken/​steak/​etc).
I dont know how they are still in business

Oh come now, people, it isn’t that bad.
Z-​teca is a pretty standard chain burrito restaurant. Compared to the other options in York Lanes, it’s definitely far yummier, slightly healthier, and certainly pricier.
They have choice of wholewheat (or BROWN, as they say in Ontario) and white pita bread. Rice, corn, beans and a few veggies (although those cost extra). Also, there is choice of protein (chicken, beef, shrimp, vegetarian) and they have like 6 different kinds of sauces to pick from.
Their décor is what always irks me. Furniture made out of wood chips. I guess this is what they call Modern and Fashionable nowadays… I call it a piece of crap.
Choose this over 80% of the options at York. Saying much? Not really.

Overpriced and flavorless. Too much corn and super sodium drenches the veggies and beans. Ate there once last year when it first opened for a «healthier alternative» to the crap on campus and I might as well have eaten McDonalds, and I have never even eaten at McDonald’s.

YUCK! I had the nastiest veggie salad here tonight at the Z-​teca at York University. Firstly, it was overpriced, $ 6.95 (before taxes) for such crap… would make anyone go into an angry rant! Note, not all vegans are peaceful treehuggers who practices “zen.“
Z-​teca sucks and I‘m never coming back because:
–the salad was disgusting
–it was also expensive
–the ingredients were not fresh:
–the lettuce was not fresh and dry, and the dude literally gave me a few pieces and had the nerve to call it a salad
–service sucks: dude serving me had no idea what he was doing, what a tool
–they only have ONE kind of beans. WHAT kind of tex-​mex place have only 1?
–they charge 1 dollar more for roasted veggies, Mucho Burritos does not
–the hot salsa was NOT hot… very mild, if i‘m not gasping for water, then it‘s not hot
–they have 2 types of dressings, but they were both NOT-​vegan friendly! C‘mon!
And what angers me more is the crap they wrote on their bag:
“in case of Emergency, tear open Bag“ –yea right, it‘s more like if you tear open the bag, you‘ll find yourself in the Emergency at your nearest hospital
“share the love“ –no… it‘s more like, share it with your enemies and recommend it to anyone you hate
“proudly Canadian“ –the Canadian government should make them take that off their bags, website, etc… cos this is not representative of Canada… on the account that their food sucks!
So yeah, Z-​teca sucks. Need I say more? NEVER AGAIN.