Red Chile Beef Mini Chimichangas – 36 Pack

These mini chimichangas start with flour tortillas, which are filled with El Charro Café’s famous slow-cooked, tender chile con carne and deep fried. They’re served with enchilada sauce!

El Charro’s legendary Tia Monica Flin is well-known as “The Inventor of The Chimichanga.” While frying her now famous El Charro ground beef tacos, she accidentally dropped a burro into the frying pan and when the oil splashed up she was about to shout a common Spanish cuss word starting with “Ch.” But because she was amongst her young nieces and nephews, she changed it to “Chimichanga,” the equivalent of “thingamajig.” And a legend was born!

El Charro Café was founded in Tucson way back in 1922 by the tireless Monica Flin. Her lineup of traditional Sonoran dishes made her a local legend; she’s even credited with inventing the chimichanga! Today, El Charro Café is run by Monica’s great grandniece, Carlotta Flores, and it’s America’s oldest Mexican restaurant in continuous operation by the same family. El Charro Café offers a wide variety of Northern Mexican and Tucson-style Mexican dishes, from enchiladas to tamales to tacos to burros, and their insanely delicious food has been hailed by everyone from Bon Appetit to the NY Times to Nation’s Restaurant News, which named it one of America’s 50 most iconic restaurants.