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Nestled in the vibrant Bankside area of London, Tortilla - Bankside offers a lively and authentic Mexican dining experience that captures the essence of California-style Mexican cuisine. This casual eatery is renowned for its fresh ingredients, generous portions, and friendly atmosphere, making it a favorite among locals and visitors alike. Whether you're craving a hearty burrito, a flavorful bowl, or a quick snack, Tortilla provides a colorful and satisfying culinary escape right in the heart of London.

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Here in the London area on a vacation from the United States and only had 25 minutes to order and eat before meeting with our group.  Our group of 4 stopped in, ordered and got out in a timely manner.  The food all looked delicious and fresh.   The young gentleman behind the counter was wonderful.  Friendly, polite and generous.  Even asked where we were from, also telling us he worked in Chicago for a bit.   Highly recommend this place, friendly staff, fair prices and excellent food.

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One of my favorite fast food eateries in America is Chipotle. As with most American imports, the food here is priced by replacing the $ with a £, thus making it overpriced. I patronized a London Chipotle once and vowed to never return.

Today I discovered Tortilla and finally satisfied my craving for inexpensive Mexican food! They essentially offer the same options as Chipotle, with minor differences:
- Spanish rice (in addition to cilantro/lime rice)
- Diced onions
- Shredded AND chopped lettuce (oh boy!)

Anyways, though the food isn't anything to write home about, I gave Tortilla 4 stars because of the price point. The medium burritos and burrito bowls are only £4.95. It's much cheaper than it's competitor Chipotle, and affordable on my student budget. Also this location offers tons of seating on the main level and upstairs, or you can go outside and enjoy the views of Bankside.

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Tortilla is basically Chipotle minus any spicy salsas.  You pick your carb, your beans and your meat and veggies and they make a bowl/burrito etc.  Prices are affordable and the vibe is super casual if you eat in.  The food is a bit bland for someone who knows Cali Mexican.  The sauces are "weak" and the meat needs more flavor.  Not bad if you are on a budget.

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I had lunch here today and it was so good. I had a chicken burrito which was about £4.50 and myself and my friend shares a bowl of tortilla chips and guacamole, which was about £3. Everything was so delicious, and the chips were warm and really salty which I love. It was also really filling so completely worth every penny. We went at 1pm and because a lot of people go for takeaway we got a seat straight away despite the long queue for service.
My favourite thing about it? Free refills on soft drinks. I went a little overboard on the coke and got really full so be warned! The cups are paper though so when you leave you can take another gulp for the road, that is so rare for London. In a way I'm sad I've discovered this place so close to my house because I'll be here all the time now!

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Wow - I think I've found a new favorite place for lunch!


 Tortilla is a fast food style Mexican. You queue up and order your burrito how you like it, in a very similar fashion to subway sandwiches (except you're choosing between meets, cheese, types of rice and beans, choice of three salsas etc.). As a bonus offer at lunchtimes a bottomless soft drink is only 50p. Beers are also available. This style is something I've experienced in Mexican places in California, but not in London.


 You can opt for takeaway, but they offer a lot of seating on two floors as well. The restaurant itself is very clean and modern and is a pleasant place to eat. Quiet music plays in the background.


 They make a big thing about how all the ingredients are fresh, and their meets are home marinated - and I think this is really reflected in the quality of the food because the burrito I had was delicious.


 We arrived at 12:15 and there was not much of a queue. However we noticed that the queue built up quite a lot over the next 20 minutes so would recommend arriving a bit early.


 I'll definitely be going here frequently (I'll add more photos on my next visit)

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In this world, you can't go far wrong with food that starts with a flat circle of stuff. Pizza is awesome. Pancakes are awesome. A kebab can get you through in a tight situation. Pasties are quite popular, and that's just a Cornish pizza that's been folded in half. And I ain't met nobody who would ever say no to a decent Burrito.


 Though Tortilla was a little hard to find initially (if you approach it from one direction all you can see are the signs for the Health Club rather than the source of Mexican goodness), and it looks like the kind of mainstream chainy type place that lovers of fine lunchtime cuisine tend to avoid - once you've tried their burritos I almost guarantee you'll be back.


 In fact, the ordering process on the 3 times I've been there in the last 6 days does have me wondering what element of the presentation I've missed. Despite signs around showing you what the workflow & options are, I still feel like the staff are making it up on the spot. But even then, IT'S SO GOOOOOOOOD!


 The food's fresh, tasty, affordable, healthy-ish, and did I mention tasty? I'm yet to master the art of eating a heftily-sized burrito without sending my Mexican spicy rice distributing itself all over the table and up the arm of my shirt. The chicken and the pork have been incredibly flavoursome - with that woody/smoky flavour that you don't get anywhere near with "bing cuisine".


 The restaurant - well you wouldn't really call it a cafe? - is quite spacious, and has all the atmosphere of an airport departure lounge, although to their credit they haven't spattered it with spray-on Tex Mex kitsch, preferring just to get on with the business of making tasty lunchtime nosh.


 These things might not even be very authentic, but damn they're good. I'm going back tomorrow.

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Tortilla is a great little Mexican/Californian burrito chain with five or six outlets dotted about London and I'm very lucky to have one on my route home. This branch is on the ground floor of a modern building in Southwark Street just behind the Tate Modern. It has an additional seating area on the floor above, but this is only opened at lunchtime to cope with the swarms of hungry office types who are queuing out the door.


 It's a cafe like space; clean, tidy and efficiently run. You are not likely to want to linger for too long once you have scoffed your Mexican snackage but I guess that's part of the point. You will be as happy here as a solitary diner, a couple or with a larger party - I have visited with B and on also on my own.


 Anyway we popped in last Thursday night, I think it is open until 9pm, as we made our way along the Thames after sampling the delights of the Cologne Christmas Market on the Southbank. It always seems to be reasonably quiet if you drop in any time after the lunchtime rush and we received a warm welcome as we mulled over the menu on the wall by the serving area.


 Like most of the Mexican grill type places you decide if you are going down the burrito or tacos route, then move onto putting together your dream filling. I'm having a bit of taco love-in at the moment so I went for a couple of the little corn beauties, with the mouth-watering carnitas pork which had been slow cooked to within an inch of its life. I built this up with some hot salsa, Monterey Jack cheese, sour cream and shredded iceberg lettuce. B went down the burrito route and had a bad boy stuffed with pork, rice, pinto beans, cheese and a good hit of the medium salsa. A bowl of the freshly made, very zingy, guacamole with a bag of the excellent tortilla chips on the side and we were good to go.


 This is mighty, mighty fine fast food using excellent ingredients and lovingly prepared. There are large bottles of chilli sauce on the table should you need it and there a few foodie bits and pieces you can buy to take home should you fancy making your own Mexican feast.


 If you are in the mood for a beer then you are in luck as they have an excellent range of both Mexican and American brews. I had a bottle of the Anchor Steam Beer and B washed the bad boy down with a lovely Mexican bottle whose name has completely slipped my mind (not the usual Corona or Dos Equis so I will have to make a return visit to check up on this slight omission!!)


 Three quarters of an hour later we left wearing a couple of very big grins with our hunger nicely sated and my wallet less than £20 lighter  result.

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oh yum, wish i was back there now sipping on a margarita from the slush puppy machine they have. I went here the london duck tour with qype and i was impressed.
Freshly made tortilla wrap or burrito all made in front of you like subway.
Very nice staff may i add that were happy to accomodate requests for slight deviations from the set fillings.
YOU need to be HUNGRY for this as they are HUGE!!! but oh so tasty, unfortunately none near me -hint hint you need to open in wimbledon PLEASE!!!! lol. 
For £5.70 you get a large tortilla filled with rice,beans,meat,salsa,cheese,sour cream and guacamole. there are about 4 branches i think, once near oxford circus and one near Angel

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This is my first review since living in London and it had to be for a Mexican place.  I would like to say that I am quite hard on Mexican places since I've lived in Souther California my entire life up to now.  I have to imagine that this is the best London has to offer.

Now let me just say I've eaten Mexican before here, and it's honestly best to avoid, I'm sorry to say, so only go if you are dying for Mexican.  It's comparatively expensive as well.  This is Chipotle style Mexican as opposed to hole-in-the-wall Mexican, but pretty good considering.  The biggest problem with Mexican in London is that there are no flavors.  In San Diego there's almost too much flavor.  Spices are sought from the deepest regions of the amazon just to hit my flavor crystals.  Tortilla was the first to make them tingle a little here.

The Bad: Price (okay for london in general, but not when are used to paying $4 for a burrito).  Being nickel and dimed (or I guess penced and penced) for carne, guacamole.
The Good: Cilantro Rice.  Pollo. Hot sauces.
The Great: Jalapeños (Take a lesson Chipotle).  The tortilla.  Large windows and layout of restaurant.
The Amazing: Being able to have something I consider Mexican food.

I really think that his is a perfect 3.5 stars, but it's been a month since I've had Mexican so I'll give the benefit of the doubt.  Actually the extra half star is for the option of bottomless drinks and more importantly Cholula on the table.  I almost cried.  I'll probably go 1-2 a month.  Definitely better than the hat.

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Let me start by saying I love tortilla! I have ever since I tried it in Wimbledon. It is probably the closest equivalent to true Cali Mexican food you can get here in the UK.

However, despite how much I love it, I don't feel I could rate this particular branch more than a two (and that's fairly generous).

Being near London Bridge and having tons of businesses around means it gets extremely busy during lunch with the line resembling that of children awaiting school lunches from the line of staff operation different stations to help build a perfect burrito.

Most of the staff in the construction conveyor belt are fairly happy and welcoming however there are those who just don't care and would probably suit being in a morgue than a customer facing role. But never mind, give me that delicious Mexican food!! Oh, wait... You're hardly putting any rice... Wait only a minuscule amount of meat!? HALF A TABLE SPOON OF GUAC!? I paid extra for that, LOAD ME UP!! 

Ok keep calm, slightly skinny burrito is in hand. Sauces and how it is cooked/seasoned should still make it good... Oh wait... Never mind. It's bland... Lunch ruined.

It is still a good place to go for food but like the above says, this branch will just give you minuscule amounts of unseasoned and bland food served with a mood rather than a smile.

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