Fat Bastard Burrito is a chain from Toronto. This Fat Bastard Burrito location is in Merivale Mall,…read morebut it only has an external entrance, you cannot get to it from inside the mall. It's the second location to open up in Ottawa, the first was on Walkley Rd.
I went there twice in one week, lol. The first time, I got a small baked chicken naked burrito bowl ($8.99). I love how there were lots of toppings to choose from, and guacamole is included so you don't have to pay extra for it. The chicken was flavourful and I got a decent amount of it. It was a tad too salty for my liking, but still tasty. I like that it's lean chicken breast. For my toppings I got rice, black beans, refried beans, cheese, lettuce, coleslaw, Pico de Gallo, guacamole, and "crunchies" which is just broken up tortilla chips, lol. One of the toppings available is noodles, which looked like chow mein noodles. I passed, but if you want to load up on carbs and have a really filling meal, you can. The small was a good size for me, I was full but not stuffed and feeling gross afterwards. Ingredients were fresh and staff wore gloves while preparing my food (and of course also masks since we are in the midst of this Covid Pandemic).
I like that the bowl is cardboard and not plastic. The lid is plastic though.
On my second visit, I got the Tequila Lime Chicken Tacos ($10.49 for 3). This pretty much tasted like the burrito bowl I had, but in taco form, and with less toppings, lol. The tacos come with fixed toppings (rice, lettuce, green onions, salsa, sour cream and "crunchies" aka tortilla chips), if you want to add more toppings, you pay extra. I asked them to hold the sour cream, and no green onions. I was permitted to substitute another vegetable since I didn't want green onions and I got green peppers instead. I thought this was very nice of them to offer to replace the green onions with something else because the signage said "no toppings substitutions."
The tacos were flour tortillas which I don't like as much as corn tortillas, but they did hold up very well and didn't fall apart, like corn tortillas sometime do.
The box that the tacos came in was all cardboard, which I liked. They had this little plastic thing that they put in the box to hold the tacos up and in place. I liked that (even though it's plastic).
It's mainly a takeout joint. There were 2 tables of 2, but it's definitely not a place that I would sit and eat. Just grab and go! Service was friendly and fast.
Lots of free parking in the mall parking lot.
