We're here at Commodity, and inside, Lowkey Burritos
are doin' their thing.
They make these burritos wrapped
in a blanket of cheese and jalapeños.
Obviously, I saw them on Instagram.
I hear they sell out almost every time they do a pop-up,
so we got here super early.
It is
7:38 in the morning.
We drove an hour to get here, so I'm really excited
to go inside and get a burrito.
- I don't even know what my title is.
I guess I call it burrito freelancer.
I used to work at a breakfast-burrito restaurant,
and I was working there just as part-time,
kinda on the side while my wife went to work full time,
and I was watching the kids at home.
I kinda had, like, I guess a quarter-life crisis.
I was like, dude, I'm 25, what am I doing with my life?
I'm making $11 a hour, $12 a hour,
and I got two kids, you know?
So I figured there's gotta be something
that has more potential.
It's just more than the standard I gotta wait 20, 30 years
before I can get a $2 raise.
I started getting in trouble for doing my own things,
like just cooking things a little bit differently.
I quit my job
like August of last year, and I went out a couple days later
with my girl out to downtown LA and just said screw it.
I'ma sell burritos.
If they sell hot dogs, I'm sellin' burritos.
I never liked serving it unless I like it.
Yeah, that's great. - Lowkey Burritos
pops up all over LA.
From Long Beach to downtown, it all depends
on where Matt can consistently find a place to cook.
The burritos are stuffed with bacon, eggs, potatoes,
and, of course, cheese, then the burritos are snuggled up
into a crispy, cheesy blanket.
This crispy-cheese situation.
Ah, nothing like it. It's like Detroit-style pizza
but a burrito.
Mm.
I've seen it in taco form,
but never like a burrito like this,
and I'm really, really tempted to just peel away
all of the burnt cheese on the outside and just go to town.
I'd like to accept this award on behalf of...
all the people that have eaten giant burritos before me.
But truly, I think I've found the best one.
Lowkey.
- I'm actually a burrito fanatic, burrito connoisseur.
Really into, like, breakfast burritos.
I think that the cheesy jalapeño-wrap thing
is really unique.
- I feel complete.
- We found out there's a downtown location.
So I guess we didn't need to get up at 5 o'clock
in the morning to go get burritos on Long Beach,
but there's a bright side.
I get another burrito.
Mm, the thing I love about it is
not only the texture from the burned cheese on the outside,
but the flavor, you get a little bit of that flattop char,
and it adds something different.
- Good. - Oh, my God!
I found heaven. - It's good.
- Wow. - This is it.
This is heaven. - Thank you!
- Thank you! - Thank you so much!
Cheese crust is crazy. - The cheese crust,
the potatoes, that's the bomb.
- Mhm.
- Yeah.
- Bell peppers, it's just...
- It's everything you wanted in a breakfast burrito.
- And nothing more.
- Honestly, like, seeing Matt's passion for this work
and seeing how much he loves burritos
and he loves talking to people about burritos,
seeing the community that he's building
around Lowkey Burritos is really, really cool,
and they're delicious.
Praise be unto the burrito god.