Beef Barbacoa Burrito

What Chipotle says it is

Chipotle’s printed nutrition sheet describes a burrito as: “Flour tortilla with a choice of cilantro-lime rice, black or pinto beans, meat, salsa, and cheese or sour cream.”

On the protein, Chipotle’s ingredients page says of the beef: “Our steak and Barbacoa always start with Responsibly Raised beef. Then, we achieve tenderness in two ways. First, we cook it sous vide, which locks in moisture by heating the beef at a precise, low temperature for a looong time. Then we marinate it overnight in our smoky, spicy chipotle pepper adobo, and finish it on the grill (for steak) or add aromatic spices like oregano, cloves, and bay leaf, braise it slowly at a low temperature until it’s mouthwateringly tender, then shred it by hand (for Barbacoa). Sorry, is our beef-geek showing?” The statement for the barbacoa names eleven ingredients: Bay Leaf, Beef, Black Pepper, Chipotle Chili, Cloves, Cumin, Garlic, Oregano, Salt, High Oleic Sunflower Oil and Water.

The Beef Barbacoa Burrito was listed at all 368 restaurants read, in 48 states and DC on 25 September 2026. That makes it a core item, on every open menu read. One of those menus marked it unavailable on the read day.

Why the listing and the build differ

170 calories is the listing for the Beef Barbacoa Burrito, and it is the protein alone: 4 oz of barbacoa, with nothing else counted. This site prints that figure as the listing and never as the meal.

Eight parts make the classic build, 1,080 calories in all: Barbacoa (170 calories), Flour Tortilla (burrito) (320 calories), Cilantro-Lime White Rice (210 calories), Black Beans (130 calories), Fresh Tomato Salsa (25 calories), Monterey Jack Cheese (110 calories), Sour Cream (110 calories) and Romaine Lettuce (5 calories). The other reference builds: light at 540 calories and loaded at 1,505 calories. Chipotle’s printed sheet gives a built burrito as 740 to 1,210 calories; the classic build sits inside that range.

Protein runs 52 g across the classic build, 4.8 g per 100 calories, and sodium 2,460 mg, 107 percent of the 2,300 mg the FDA uses as the daily value. Press any part in the build above and the bars redraw from that part’s own record.

What the price buys

Between $10.45 and $14.10 for pickup depending on the restaurant; $11.80 is the median across 368 menus, read on 25 September 2026. The same menus carry Chipotle’s own delivery price: $15.35 at the median, 30.1 percent above pickup, before the service fees the checkout adds. It is the dearest of the seven burritos on the board at the median, level with Steak Burrito; the cheapest is the Chicken Burrito at $9.80. The barbacoa premium over chicken is $2.00 at the median on this format.

The cheapest state median on the read date was Kansas at $11.18, the dearest New York at $13.15. A state median stands on eight restaurants at most, so one dear or cheap restaurant moves it; the national range is the safer figure. Pick a state at the top of the page and every price on this site prints that state’s median.

The priced add-ons on a burrito: Guacamole $2.95 at the median ($2.85 to $3.20, 368 restaurants), Queso Blanco $1.70 at the median ($1.40 to $1.80, 368 restaurants) and Cilantro Lime Sauce $1.00 at the median ($1.00 to $1.00, 368 restaurants). A second portion of barbacoa (double protein) adds $6.00 at the median, $5.35 to $7.10 across 368 restaurants. So the classic build on this page stands at $11.80 and the loaded build at $16.45, the entree plus $4.65 of add-ons at the national medians.

The figures against a day

The listed protein alone is 8 percent of a 2,000 calorie day by calories and 23 percent of the 2,300 mg sodium daily value. It carries 24 g of protein, 14.1 g per 100 calories, and 2.5 g of saturated fat (12 percent of the daily value). Cholesterol, which the calculator does not print, is 65 mg on the printed sheet’s row for the same portion.

The classic build is 54 percent of a 2,000 calorie day and 107 percent of the sodium daily value, which is to say more sodium than a day. Carbohydrate runs 122 g with 14 g of fiber (50 percent of the 28 g daily value); fat 38.5 g, of which 15.5 g saturated.

Allergens and diets on this order

Chipotle’s allergens and special diets chart has a row for Barbacoa: it contains none of the four chart allergens (dairy, soy, wheat and gluten, sulphites); the row marks it keto and paleo. The classic build on this page contains wheat and gluten, sulphites and dairy, by the rows for its parts; it is not vegetarian (Barbacoa rules it out).

On the tortilla the brand is plain: “If you avoid gluten, don’t eat our flour tortillas. If you are highly sensitive to gluten and would like us to change our gloves, just let us know at the start of your order.” Every row on the chart carries the same two cautions: “Individual foods may come into contact with one another during preparation, which is not reflected on this chart.” “Although we do not use eggs, mustard, peanuts, tree nuts, sesame, shellfish, or fish as ingredients in our food, Chipotle cannot guarantee the complete absence of these allergens in its restaurants.”

Where else the protein turns up

The same protein feeds the Family Meal - Beef Barbacoa, $64.00 at the median for four to six people, $16.00 a head at four. For a child, the Beef Barbacoa Kid’s Build Your Own is $5.70 and Beef Barbacoa Kid’s Quesadilla is $5.20 at their medians. The same protein in the other formats: Beef Barbacoa Bowl at $11.80, Beef Barbacoa Salad at $11.80, Beef Barbacoa Tacos (3) at $11.80 and Beef Barbacoa Quesadilla at $12.35.

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