{"id":59,"date":"2019-05-14T12:25:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/?p=999950022"},"modified":"2019-05-14T12:25:43","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T19:25:43","slug":"addison-appus-cafe-maharaja-burrito-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/food\/addison-appus-cafe-maharaja-burrito-best","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach cafe’s Indian-fusion burrito named one of the best in the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The draw of Appu’s Cafe, a pseudo-Indian, maybe-fusion restaurant hidden in the Woodruff Medical Offices over on the east side, is one of both simple quality and contagious affection: It serves up some of the best quality vegetarian food in the city\u2014it rightfully earned a spot on my most underrated restaurants list last year<\/a>\u2014and Appu’s wife works as a doctor in the building so they can both promote health through food and direct care.<\/p>\n

Amid the many worthy dishes\u2014their soups are genuinely great, from both yellow and black lentil offerings to their mulligatawny soup, a stellar black peppered-concoction that is worth every drop\u2014it is their Maharaja Burrito that was recently named as one of the best burritos in the nation<\/a> (and in the state) by Yelp!.<\/p>\n

The vegetarian burrito is filled with turmeric rice, chunks of saag paneer, lentils and mushrooms if you request it. It has a mini-cult following on Yelp!, which is precisely what led to the ranking.<\/p>\n

Which brings us to a little bit of intellectual honesty amid the celebration: the overstepping on behalf of Yelp! (which partnered with Insider to create the list) is a bit eyebrow-raising.<\/p>\n

For one, there is no single best burrito in the region let alone California as a whole. An argument pitting La Azteca’s chile relleno burrito versus Al & Bea\u2019s bean-and-cheese-heaven-in-a-burrito\u2014in my humble opinion, both of which are far superior nods to the almighty burrito when compared to Appu’s noble attempt\u2014would render a stalemate.<\/p>\n

Listicles and rankings\u2014yes, including my very own<\/a>\u2014are as deceitful as they are addicting. We will always be drawn to them but there will always be issues. While I believe the Maharaja Burrito is certainly not the best in the state, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t grab one. So enjoy. And, after that, go to Tito’s Bakery.<\/p>\n

Brian Addison is a columnist and editor for the Long Beach Post.\u00a0<\/em>Reach him at\u00a0brian@lbpost.com\u00a0or on social media at\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Instagram<\/a>, and\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Appu’s Cafe’s Maharaja Burrito that is being named as one of the best burritos in the nation (and the best in the state) by Yelp!.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":211,"featured_media":65591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[42],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food","tag-rankings","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8343,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/8343"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}