Familia Fine Foods

Come to Familia Fine Foods for a burrito bowl and you can walk out with a frozen dinner, a bag of Colombian coffee, and a slab of guava cake. The Burlington business runs as a restaurant, a café, a Latin grocery, a prepared-meals counter, and a caterer all at once, and the cooking that holds the whole thing together is Colombian. Juliana Berrio and Luis Velasquez run it as a family — she as owner, he as the cooking-school-trained chef — which is why it reads less like a restaurant with a retail sideline than a family kitchen that happens to seat guests. The business began in 2014 as a prepared-meal operation, and the dining room followed two years later.

The everyday workhorse is Familia's Burrito Bowl, the most-ordered plate and the easiest first order: rice, beans, lettuce, corn, pico de gallo, cheese, and sauces under a choice of chicken, pork, beef, or a vegetarian build. It travels well, which is half its appeal. Around it runs the handheld rhythm of tacos, tostadas, burritos, quesadillas, and baked empanadas — the relaxed register that makes a weekday lunch easy. Breakfast is no token shift. Calentado Antioqueño, arepa de choclo, arepa con chorizo, huevos rancheros, and a breakfast burrito start coming out at eight in the morning, and the kitchen treats the first meal of the day with the same care as the rest.