La Chiquita Restaurant
906 E Washington Ave
La Chiquita Restaurant has been a local institution for sixty years, serving classic and traditional Mexican dishes such as ground beef tacos and chili verde burritos with pork. The restaurant is also known for its 5lb Burrito Challenge, in which guests must eat a five-pound burrito within an hour, and those that manage to complete the challenge get the meal free and receive a signed t-shirt. La Chiquita owner Sammy Montoya donated the wall of his restaurant for a mural, on the same idealistic principles that the mural stands for.
The restaurant is located in the Logan Barrio, one of the several original Mexican barrios in Santa Ana. With roots going back to 1886, these neighborhoods were among the first in the city and were the childhood homes of today’s judges, lawyers, and business leaders.