The Chili Cheese Burrito (Chilito)
Taco Bell secret menu · fan build, not an official menu item
Beef-and-bean chili with melted cheese in a steamed tortilla — the 1990s icon with the most persistent fan campaign in fast food.
How to order
Ask whether your store still makes the Chili Cheese Burrito — some regions never dropped it. Elsewhere, a Bean Burrito with extra cheese and red sauce is the closest table-side approximation.
≈ 360 Cal (estimated)
What it is built from
- Bean Burrito — $2.59, 360 Cal
Estimated totals (price ≈ $2.59; calories ≈ 360 Cal) are sums of the components' sampled prices and published nutrition — labelled estimates, never official figures.
The build in detail
The real Chilito is a specific build: beef-and-bean chili with melted cheese in a steamed flour tortilla. The fan approximation ordered on this page — a Bean Burrito with extra cheese and red sauce — gets the texture and the steam right but not the filling: it is meatless, and saucier than the original. Know which of the two you are ordering. In parts of the Midwest you may not have to approximate at all, because some stores there never dropped the official item.
Data status, stated plainly: this page's estimate sums the Bean Burrito base ($2.59 sampled, 360 Cal) because that is the build most locations will actually make. The official Chili Cheese Burrito has its own page in our dataset — $3.29 sampled, 380 Cal with its recorded allergens — and where a store still sells it, those are the figures that apply. The small gap between the two pages is the difference between the approximation and the real item.
See also: Chili Cheese Burrito — the official item's own data page.
Availability
Regional: still officially sold in parts of the Midwest; a fan approximation elsewhere.
Frequently asked questions
How much does The Chili Cheese Burrito (Chilito) cost?
Estimated at about $2.59 from the sampled prices of its components. It is a custom build, so the register total depends on how the location charges the modifications.
How many calories are in The Chili Cheese Burrito (Chilito)?
Estimated at about 360 calories, summed from the published nutrition of its components. Preparation varies, so treat it as a close estimate, not a label value.