We reviewed Yankee Stadium's Austin Wells-inspired burrito so you don't have to

New York Times

03-05-2025

The Wells Favvurito
Price: $12.28
Where to buy: Sections 110, 217, 321
Availability: All Yankee Stadium day games
YSC+: 65*
NEW YORK — I was hoodwinked, bamboozled and led astray by the New York Yankees' marketing team.
Have you ever watched a food commercial and immediately thought, 'Wow. I need to go to this restaurant as soon as possible and order this?' That's exactly what happened when Yankees catcher Austin Wells reviewed three different breakfast burritos on X — with the highest-rated one to be sold at Yankee Stadium day games. The winner featured a flour tortilla, scrambled eggs, breakfast sausage, maple city fries, cheddar jack cheese and a side of chipotle aioli.
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This season, on his Instagram page, Wells has been reviewing the breakfast burritos of all the MLB ballparks the Yankees visit, so the team smartly leaned into a clever marketing opportunity with one of their young, homegrown players.
I'm not a food expert, but I may have the most stories on The Athletic related to food. I've reviewed everything from an iconic Atlanta strip club's chicken wings to Yankee Stadium's newest concession items. The burritos Wells reviewed looked spectacular and filling. The burrito that the Yankees are calling 'The Wells Favvurito,' which I ordered before the Yankees' 3-2 loss to the Rays on Saturday, was the opposite.
I reached out to the owner of Electric Burrito, Alex Thaboua, who grew up in San Diego and now runs the East Village spot that specializes in Southern California-style burritos, to ask what makes a good breakfast burrito.
'It is the crispy fries, the mushy beans, fried eggs — not fluffy eggs,' Thaboua said. 'You need a little acid in there from salsa or maybe a little lime juice. It's basic cooking rules. You add different textures. You need a good tortilla. That's a big part of it. That tortilla can't be too doughy. That's usually the biggest component, that and scrambled eggs is where people screw up breakfast burritos. It's too much fluff. It's like a McDonald's breakfast that cost like 50 cents back in the day.'
The Wells Favurrito. Quite small. $12.28 pic.twitter.com/HuPdrYVNmh
— Chris Kirschner (@ChrisKirschner) May 3, 2025
The Wells Favvurito is $12.28, which would not be exorbitant for stadium food, except it's tiny and not remotely close to being filling. Cut into the burrito, and you'll be searching for all of the breakfast sausage that was visible in Wells' camera-ready version. In the burrito I ordered, there may have been a total of five cut-up pieces of sausage that entirely lacked seasoning. The eggs mirrored those powdered ones you'd find at a Fairfield Inn continental breakfast. The potatoes were interesting in that they clearly had a maple syrup taste to them, but they were not crispy. The tortilla was the biggest crime of the burrito. It tasted as if it came straight out of the plastic wrapper.
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Perhaps the sausage, eggs and potatoes could have been masked better by a better tortilla, but alas. What made up for the blandness of the burrito was the side of chipotle aioli. The burrito could be saved if the stadium lathers the chipotle sauce inside the burrito, but a good burrito should not require a dipping sauce that turns into the highlight of the meal.
The burrito is not worth the price, considering you'll be hungry about 10 minutes later, and I'm only speaking from experience here. Yankee Stadium has several good concession options, but this was a miss. YES Network's Jeff Nelson also tried the burrito and gave it a less-than-inspiring review.
'I'm glad it wasn't a 'flavvurito,' because it didn't have a whole lot of it,' Nelson said during Saturday's game broadcast.
I showed Wells, who homered in the defeat, the picture of my burrito after the game and he agreed that it, 'looks nothing like my burrito.' He said he'll have to put a word in with the higher-ups. Let's hope, because for now, his name is attached to a mediocre burrito.
* Baseball loves its 'plus' stats, so in my past rankings, we've used the Yankee Stadium Concessions+ metric, or YSC+, where the average rating is 100 just as it is for wRC+ or OPS+. For example, a 125 YSC+ is 25 percent better than your average concession stand item.
(Top photo of the The Wells Favvurito, which is not our favvurito: Chris Kirschner / The Athletic)