fairly triumphant weekend news to report: after weeks of searching and hoping for a great, local place to get a tasty breakfast burrito — which for some reason jessica and i crave regularly and strongly those lazy weekend mornings — we finally put in some serious internet research and found a winner. actually, we were fortunate enough to stumble on this guy’s blog entry which framed a similar problem, and lead to success for both of us: benito’s taco shop. of course, his story put him in the west LA location, but we were lucky enough to remember there’s one right nearby on the corner of beverly & fairfax.

and oh was it delicious! the common problem we find is that you can’t get ALL the best stuff in one burrito. eggs and cheese and sausage but no potatoes. or veggies but no meat. but wait, benito’s to the rescue! everything we were looking for (chorizo for me, beans for her) in one place. hooray!

i was so excited i had to post a review on yelp immediately in the hopes of helping out fellow neighbors find the answer to their own breakfast quests. if you’ll notice, i’ve recently discovered and developed an internet crush on this site, as it combines the novelty of myspace with the usefulness you wish citysearch had. as such, i’m trying to log all my favorite LA places over time into their system, and even put a nifty map plug-in on this site as reference for all my adoring internet fans, should they wonder where i spend my time in this city of vast entertainments.

in case you were curious, the rest of the weekend was also rad: friday the guys all played dead rising (excellent) at ted’s place then went off to see the protector (fairly excellent, review tomorrow perhaps?). spent saturday evening at a pool party in the hills with the lady, the roommate, his lady, and others. another excellent night. sunday night was delicious food and wine and the unquestionably cool willie nelson at the hollywood bowl. openers averaged out to null, as neko case was great and ryan adams was booooooring, but i could have guessed that going in.

overall, a very productive and full weekend, meaning this one coming up needs to be earmarked for relaxing and watching the USC game. if you’re reading this, you’re invited, but bring beer.