The ketchup-and-mustard building at 2109 Sunset Boulevard has been dark since late June. Julian Montoya opened Burrito King there in 1968. In its best years, the stand served breakfast and stayed open until after midnight, so it was the last stop for people walking home from the Echoplex or Spaceland. The Los Angeles Times reported that it closed for good after 58 years. A longtime food writer quoted in that story remembered the little stools out front that made it feel like sitting at a diner.
Three months later, a walk-up window lit up again on Echo Park Avenue. Tijuanero's window is open until 10 p.m., which leaves the hours after that to someone else. The closing times on Sunset show who. Late-night eating in Echo Park has moved from a burrito window to a churro counter. On a Friday after 11, the latest kitchen on the strip is selling churros and tortas.
What the Sunset window actually covered
Burrito King once had about 20 locations, including ones in Anaheim, Houston and Bogotá. By the early 2000s only two were left: the Echo Park original and a bungalow in Silver Lake near Hyperion and Rowena that closed in 2011. For years, the Sunset stand was the only Burrito King left anywhere.
What made it hard to replace was the hours. It served breakfast burritos in the morning and chile relleno burritos after midnight. The Times story describes a tortilla "bigger than your face" wrapped around fried chile relleno and melted American cheese. One counter covered both ends of the day.
When it closed, the space was listed for rent at $6,000 a month. As of October 10, 2026, there's no reported news of a new tenant or plans for the building.
The window that came back on Echo Park Avenue
The window that reopened belongs to another longtime stand. Los Burritos had been at 1312 Echo Park Avenue since the early 1970s. The Eastsider reported that it had been boarded up for nearly two weeks and looked permanently closed. The Eastsider said the reason was unclear and that it couldn't reach company officials.
On September 24, after nearly a year of construction, Tijuanero by Tijuanazo opened in that space. It serves tacos, burritos and aguas frescas from the old front window. Antonio and Claudia Esquivel started the business in 2008 as a taco cart called Taco Nazo in Playas de Tijuana. Their daughter Aria opened the first U.S. location in East Los Angeles in August 2024, and she runs the Echo Park shop. Her father grew up nearby and remembers Los Burritos from his childhood.
"That is what pretty much fundamentally started this taqueria, and it's been our bestseller since then."
That's Aria Esquivel on the adobada, which is the order she recommends for a first visit. It's cooked on the trompo and served in tacos with avocado crema and a slice of pineapple. The menu also has asada, birria, chorizo and a vegetarian option, each available as tacos, mulitas, burritos or vampiros. Horchata and jamaica are among the daily aguas frescas.
The hours are what matter for this question. As of Eater's September 28 report, Tijuanero is open Tuesday through Sunday from noon to 10 p.m., and the owners are still finalizing hours. So the window is back, but at noon-to-10 hours, closed Mondays. Burrito King opened at breakfast and ran past midnight.
After 10 p.m., by night
These are the posted hours for the Echo Park kitchens still open near Burrito King's old closing time. The official pages for Guisados and Masa don't show when they were last updated, so check them before you head out.
- Masa of Echo Park, 1800 W. Sunset Blvd. Its site lists dinner-only hours of 5 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Monday isn't listed.
- Guisados, 1261 W. Sunset Blvd. Guisados posts hours of 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, until 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and until 9 p.m. Sunday.
- El Moro, 1524 W. Sunset Blvd. The churrería opened January 29, 2026. Eater listed its permanent hours as 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and until 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday. It serves churros, tortas and drinks.
Lined up together, the hours show the shift. On a Sunday after 9, Guisados has closed. At 10, Masa and Tijuanero close too, and of these four, only El Moro is still open. Weeknights add one more hour at Guisados, and Friday and Saturday add two at El Moro. After 11 on a weekend, El Moro is the only one of these four still serving, until 1 a.m.
El Moro opened five months before Burrito King closed. It has the breakfast-to-late-night range Burrito King was known for: open at 8 a.m., and later than anyone else on this list on weekends. It's a churrería with tortas, so the late-night order has changed from a chile relleno burrito to churros. It sits at 1524 W. Sunset, on the same boulevard as the old Burrito King building.
Two older names to stop counting on
Some Echo Park late-night lists still point to places that changed years ago. Mohawk Bend closed in October 2023, and Pitfire opened in its space at 2141 Sunset in February 2024. The only published Pitfire hours we found date from that opening, and we couldn't confirm what it posts now, so call ahead before counting on a late pizza. Sage's Echo Park restaurant served its last meal on January 5, 2025.
Pioneer Chicken did come back to Echo Park recently, but The Eastsider describes it as a pop-up at the Lotus Festival, which took place July 11. It isn't a permanent spot to stop on the way home.
What's already on the old Burrito King block
The block around the empty stand is busy in the daytime. Two doors down, at 2115 Sunset, Heavy Manners Library reopened after outgrowing its first home at 1200 N. Alvarado St. It's a lending library, gallery and bookstore for independently published books and zines. Members can borrow, and it hosts exhibitions and events. The calendar is full this month. A Risograph Printing 101 workshop starts at 3 p.m. today, Saturday, October 10. Before the library moved in, its storefront sat empty for six months because, the founder told the Times, the first asking rent was unrealistic. He negotiated a lower rate.
The old Burrito King window has now been empty for about three months, and the storefront two doors away took six months to fill.
The next late kitchen on the list
One announced opening could add to the late-night options. The Ravine Club is a sports bar planned for 1391 Sunset, in the space Button Mash and Poltergeist left in September 2024. Television writer Hank Chilton is behind it, and Eater reported in August that he hopes to open this fall. Chef Hugo Sanchez of Brown Soul Brewing in South Gate is planning wings, hot dogs, burgers, tacos and a few gluten-free dishes. The longer-term plans include weekend morning hours for games and a weekday lunch menu sometime in 2027. We haven't seen an opening date or posted closing hours yet. Until then, the latest weekend kitchen on this list is El Moro, at 1524 W. Sunset, open until 1 a.m.
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