Andalé

Andale closed on 11/​20/​2012 ;(
It will be missed — neither Qdoba nor Chiplote were anywhere near Andele’s authentic flavors.

I recently discovered Andale, and it’s a good lunch spot. It’s close to downtown, they’re fast, the food is pretty good and they take LevelUp. I like the quesadilla, but it’s not quite as good as Anna’s.
Their salsa is a little different, but in a good way. Definitely try it the next time you’re there!
I’ll definitely be back.

Had an awesome lunch here today — didn’t hurt that it was free courtesy of Bloomspot (thanks guys!).
Although I’m a burrito kind of guy, I heeded the advice of my fellow Unilocalers and ordered the chicken mole enchiladas. Really glad I went out on a limb because that sauce was freakin’ incredible. Kinda sweet, kinda bitter chocolate soaks your palate first, which is then gently warmed by a very modest background heat courtesy of chili peppers. Pure decadence in a goopy brown form.
As for the rest of my meal, the chicken was kinda bland but well-​masked by the mole sauce, the tortillas were simple and tasty, and the rice and beans were… well, they were rice and beans. My order came with a side of sour cream and pico de gallo as well, the latter of which was actually pretty disappointing (and I loveeeee pico).
Service was perfectly fine (they have a line out the door… obviously they try to expedite things, didn’t come off as rude though). Also enjoyed that despite being a Mexican joint, they were blasting Mana (from Argentina) on their stereo.
Enjoyed the tunes/​grub and would certainly return if I found myself in the area again around lunchtime.

I had an outstanding chicken mole burrito here for lunch with guacamole and sour cream for under $ 7. This just might be the best burrito in the financial district. I agree with the other Unilocalers that the mole sauce is a must try. It is almost sweet and adds some fantastic flavor.

Love this place from my old stomping ground. Its a good quick option with good pricing. I wish more places made low carb burritos, great option without getting as stuffed as a normal burrito. Keep up the good work.

This place is the best! The financial district is filled with burrito places but none as authentic and satisfying is Andale. Staff is always friendly working fast to get you in and out of the small bright and festive designed restaurant. In the summer there are chairs on the patio to sit and catch some sun before heading back into the office. Andale is also part of the resturant group that includes Olé in Inman Sq — Which is high end Mexican.
The only negative is they dont bag your lunch for you, so dont forget to grab ya fork, napkin and bag located next to the drinks.

For anyone that is tired of Chipotle or thinks that it’s overrated, Head over to Andale for some Mexican goodness hidden away inside 125 Summer Street building. Burritos are smaller than Chipotle, but come with better construction and lower prices.
Andale also offers Mexican soups and other entrees like enchiladas. Also note worthy is Mexican sausage! Best of all, it’s located near Chipotle so when your co-​workers make an excursion there, you can suggest Andale for other people who may want to abandon the Chipotle ship.

I really like Andale’s food a lot. It’s homey, well prepared, good quality food. Everything from basics (veg burrito) to featured items (enchiladas, quesadillas) are made with good quality ingredients and are tasty.
But… this is the second time the staffperson taking my order has made me feel like a complete a-​hole. On Friday, the guy made me feel like such a jerk for ordering for the office on a single tab (I thought that would have made life easier for them, and that they’d appreciate the extra business). Today, the same guy interrupted me and didn’t get my order right, then made a huge stink about how much that wrecked everything, how I was wrong, etc. I left feeling yucky, like I had wrecked their day or something.
I don’t think I’ll be back for a while. Noon is too early in the day for grey clouds.

Armed with a $ 8 for $ 16 voucher I ordered a sampler of things:
Tamale-​Ordinary
Pollo Pibil Burrito: Shredded chicken blended with fresh orange, tomatoes & mild chile sauce-​Good but forgettable.
Carnitas Verdes: Shredded braised pork with salsa verde sauce*** – THIS IS UBER DELISH!!! I went back on 2 separate occasions to get it and this just hits the spot. Would it be weird if I said that the carnitas verdes tastes like the stewed Chinese-​style pulled pork my mum makes with anise, five spice and cinnamon? I guarantee with more carnitas verdes you won’t regret it.

Vegetable burrito with Mole. Such yummy vegetables you don’t find any many other places. YUM!
I love this place for its food and it’s location. It’s so nice to have a local burrito place nearby + one of high quality. I also like their sister restaurant Zocolo. I always get the same thing here at Andale — the vegetable burrito with mole. It’s so good and different from any other burrito. Such a filling vegan burrito. I also always get guacamole added (you have to pay $ 0.50 extra for it).
But here’s where the lack of 2 stars come from. Their attitude or lack of customer service I should say. EVERYTIME I go there the cash register person (whoever it is depending on the day) is either a little rude or very disengaged with the customers. I feel like they rather be doing something else. and EVERYTIME I order guacamole they either forget it (like they did the other day) or they put such a tiny amount you don’t even know it’s there). What’s up? If you are going to charge extra for guacamole then put my fair share on there. Once they argued with me saying they put it on there but when I opened the burrito I was like where is — show me where it is because I don’t see it. And they still were pissy.
It can be very crowded because it’s small so expect to possibly get your food and eat somewhere else. During the summer they have outdoor seating which is really really nice.
Anyway definitely get something with the mole because its’ great but watch out for the guacamole grinches!

Finding good, cheap, quick Mexican downtown is a tough game to win, as evidenced by the mindboggling long lines at the soulless new Chipotle location. I’m telling you right now: don’t fall for it! You can do better than that!
Andale leads the charge against megacorporate Mexican with kickass burritos, enchiladas, and other offerings for less cash than the competition in short time. And they don’t just outpace megacorporate Chipotle — I’d say they do better than other locals Burritos Express and Hererra’s on speed, price, and quality.
The pollo pibil burrito is a standout offering, and the place is rarely packed if you’re there after the big rush — arrive at 1pm and you can be in and out in just a couple minutes.
Viva lunch! Andale!

Andale… Nowhere on your Groupon, your take-​out menu, or your website does it say that you close at 3pm on Fridays. You have now deprived me of my last chance to indulge in your lightning-​quick Mex… Just a few days ago, I arrived hungry and needing a fix, only to find you closed shop at 3:30. I’d gone all the way across town with my second Groupon, only to be denied access. Boo. I’m starting a new gig on Monday, and since you’re strictly M-​F, 11−4pm (supposedly), I can no longer use my voucher.
That said, the guac is nowhere near as good as it is at Zocalo, but not much guac is. Burritos are good, quesadillas are great. I’ll miss you.

Andale, you are single-​handedly dominating the burrito market share.
No, I don’t care that you have limited seating inside and will seat me elbow-​to-​elbow with suits from the nearby Financial District. Nor do I care that your summer seating outside at mirrored tables can give you precision Lasik eye surgery if you’re not careful. Just give me two steak enchiladas, smothered with melty cheese and verde sauce, and coupled with black beans and rice (with some salsa and sour cream on the side) and I AM SET.
Don’t be surprised when the line is out the door. This place is small, but it’s also popular.

A co-​worker and I bought yesterday’s groupon and because we have no shame, we used it to buy ourselves lunch for yesterday and today. Yesterday’s lunch was a delicious pulled pork torta; everything about this sandwich was good. The pork was spiced perfectly (it had that warm, spicy note to it that I love) and the toppings were plentiful. even though I had sauce shooting out of the back of the sandwich every time I took a bite. Very messy, but well worth it.
Today’s lunch was the steak gratinada and it was also really good. It’s a plate of steak, peppers and onions over rice with sides of salsa and black beans. It was a little too heavy on the onions for my liking but the steak was so tender, it was great.
My co-​worker got the quesadilla and wasn’t too impressed with it, saying it was bland and soggy (I can at least vouch for the sogginess).
The only negative about it is that we ordered over the phone and they gave us a price of $ 25, but when we got there that was somehow increased to $ 34? Not sure how that happened, but when we got the receipt everything added up fine, so it might’ve just been a mistake during the ordering process.

Andale, you beautiful bastard. The Sour Jacks of business lunches, putting forth to the famished masses a most delectable array of dishes so loaded with addictive elements yet delivered with reckless disregard to the fronts of our shirts.
If you haven’t had their mole (the same found at parent restos Zocalo) over enchiladas, then put it on your bucket list. And by that I mean, the roster of life events you’ve neglected thus earning the consequence of wearing a metal bucket over your head while third graders beat it with ladles. I mean that; you deserve it.
I always read the menu while snaking through the inevitable midday line. Why? To kill boredom, practice mi espanol, elongate the neck thus making my aesthetic more pleasing, I have no idea. It’s always a torta de pollo mole ($ 6) — grilled chicken, the aforementioned angel jizz, L, T, avocado, pinto beans and queso blanco on toasty Telera bread.
Plan ahead and wear that button-​up you planned to toss anyway. Plasticware and a bushel of napkins won’t save you from wearing half of this thing. The toasty, airy pocket does NOT stand up to the metric buttload of mole they dump on the ‘wich. The first bite will quickly turn in to Luke cutting open his tauntaun to survive.
Confuzzled? Whimsical product reference here:
You’ll love it while you hate you while you destroy it. That’s nature. That’s Andale. That’s lunch tomorrow.

Came in here for lunch and recommend Andale if you need some good mexican for lunch.
— Pollo Pibil is impressive. Really flavorful burrito — the orange flavor isn’t overpowering, ingredients seemed fresh
— Carnitas Mexican plate — very good
Definitely a solid choice for lunch. I’ve seen surcharges for guac, sour cream, but never a whole wheat tortilla — seems like a weak move. Other than that, great experience.

On my fourth visit to this fine primarily take-​out establishment, shortly before noon, a number of gentlemen arrived ahead of me, but since they didn’t know yet what they were going to order, they allowed me to go ahead of them.
Their mole sauce has been highly touted in my presence, so I ordered the chicken tamal with mole on the side $ 3.95, and a pollo pibil burrito $ 6.25 which was described as shredded chicken with fresh orange, tomatoes, cheese & a mild chile sauce.
The burrito was hefty and fat, but I didn’t notice any fresh orange in my bundle. But the cheese melted from the heat of the ingredients and as a whole the burrito was pretty tasty despite the lack of an expected orange tang.
The tamal — steamed corn meal stuffed with chicken wrapped in a banana leaf — was really moist and fall apart inside when I poked it, but filled with large chunks of chicken that made it tough to eat in bits with a knife & fork. Perhaps it is more of a one bite at a time dish? I never had tamal before. It was tasty though. My first taste of the mole was a bit hotter than expected, but once I ate it with the tamal, it was much tamer to the tongue. (end visit #4, 8÷2010… sorry, ran out of room on my original review)
Two of us split the Chicken Mole Enchiladas $ 6.95 (2 little corn tortillas stuffed which chocolate sauced chicken cubes) and the create your own Quesadilla 2 item option for $ 5.75 — mashed potato and braised pork.
Yeah, the Quesadilla is a good thing here, and quite filling. I think this will be my default dish to order at Andale…
The rice and beans that came with the enchilada wasn’t anything special, but the enchiladas were pretty tasty. They came with little containers of pico de gallo and sour cream — too bad I forgot to use them. (end visit #5, ⁸⁄₂₀₁₀)
For a visit in 5/​2011, I tried the nachos appetizer. They gave me no hassle about nixing the olives and jalapenos. The portion was good, but the chips got moist and weren’t very crunchy on the whole, although there were some pieces that were still crispy at first.
During another visit in 5/​2011, I tried the Torta de Carnitas — Marinated shredded pork, tomatoes, queso fresco, pinto beans, topped with lettuce, fresh avocado and salsa verde. $ 5.50 I found it a bit too bready and the bread a bit dry, and the pork too moist (it soaked part of the bottom bun), and the temperature too low (no cheese melt).
¹²⁄₂₀₁₁ — Flan’s off the menu. I really don’t like the bread they use for the Tortas. I still like the 2 item Quesadilla with the mashed and the pork. And they’ve signed up with Level Up, and are touting it heavily with a décor on the floor, business cards everywhere and cute cube card holders at the counter seating area.

So with sticky fingers and a full stomach I write this review about Andale– an impulse burrito purchase I made for lunch today. I was shocked for as many people that were waiting for their order, my burrito was hot and ready in less than a 5 minute wait. Feeling a time crunch, I ordered the low-​carb chicken burrito that comes with a whole wheat tortilla, black beans and the usual spread. (I assume the low-​carb aspect of this burrito is the lack of rice and whole wheat tortilla.) It was juicy and delicious– didn’t rock my world– but definitely hit the spot. It was so juicy, in fact, I dripped all over myself and my desk. During my mess– one of my co-​workers spotted me eating it and said it looked so good, she is getting one for herself on Monday.
The menu was intriguing so I will definitely go back and see if I can get a bit more flavor. Definitely a great change of pace from the Qdoba and Bolocos of the world.

Delicious quality food downtown. Of all my regular lunch destinations, this is the one I crave for days, nay, weeks, in advance, and the one that makes me the most happy.
I think that everyone should be required to have the mole sauce their first time here. I am a wicked fan of their chicken enchiladas with mole sauce — the dish comes with rice and beans, and a type of sour cream and salsa. The food is high quality and tastes really authentic (says the girl from New Hampshire). I recommend this place to all my friends.
The line can look long but the service is surprisingly fast, and definitely worth the short wait.

I’m a fan. Its quick, delicious and fresh. Try the torta’s. Large sandwich bread, baked specifically for Andale, with chicken or carnitas, queso fresco, avocado and salsa, it’s delicious. Some negatives, the carnitas can be a little too juicy (its authentic slow cooked, but when it sits in the serving container the juices pool), and the chicken can be dry at times. But overall a tasty treat and a good deal in the city. Al the burritos are great, I like to order mine spicy (they add a special sauce with a kick).
If you’re up for a tasty treat, they have Salchicha, which is a type of sausage and it’s not on the menu, you’ll have to order it by name.