Is There Chipotle in Canada, the UK or Hawaii?

Start with the question most people type. Yes, there is Chipotle in Canada, and there has been since August 2008. Canada is by a wide margin the largest Chipotle market outside the United States, sitting at roughly 80 restaurants in mid-2026. The catch is that they are concentrated in three provinces, so whether “Canada has Chipotle” is useful information depends entirely on which part of Canada you are standing in. Montreal, Halifax, Winnipeg and Whitehorse have nothing. Toronto has more than a dozen. If you want to build your order before you get there, our Chipotle nutrition calculator works the same way regardless of which country the restaurant is in, because the recipes barely change across borders.

Everything else in this guide follows the same pattern: a specific answer, a date, and a note on how likely it is to change. Chipotle passed 4,200 restaurants during 2026, and almost all of that growth happened inside the United States. The international story is a much smaller and much stranger one, involving a retreat from London, a two-restaurant presence in Frankfurt that has not moved in years, a licensing deal in the Gulf, and a first Mexican restaurant that opened in July 2026 after decades of people insisting it would never happen.

The short answer: nine countries, and one of them holds 97 percent of the restaurants

Chipotle operated over 4,200 restaurants as of 30 June 2026. Of those, 4,186 were company-operated and 15 were run by international partners under licensing and development agreements. Add the Mexican restaurant that opened two weeks after that reporting date and the picture is roughly 4,200 restaurants worldwide, of which somewhere around 4,080 sit inside the United States.

That leaves about 120 restaurants for the entire rest of the planet. Canada takes two thirds of them. Britain takes a fifth. France, Germany, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and now Mexico split what is left, in some cases with counts you can hold on one hand.

The nine countries with at least one Chipotle as of August 2026:

Two things follow from that list. The first is that if you are outside North America and western Europe, the answer to “is there a Chipotle near me” is almost certainly no, and you should stop searching and start looking for a good local taqueria instead. The second is that the international estate is small enough that a single opening or closure moves the numbers visibly, which is why so many articles about this topic are wrong. A page written in 2020 would have told you Britain had eight restaurants. It has more than twice that now.

If what you actually want is the American picture, including which states have the most restaurants and where the company is headquartered, that lives in our companion guide to how many Chipotle locations there are. This page handles everything outside the mainland US.

Canada: the real answer, province by province

Chipotle opened its first Canadian restaurant in downtown Toronto in August 2008, about fifteen years after the company started in Denver. Progress was slow for a decade. By January 2022 there were still only 25 restaurants across Ontario and British Columbia, which is a strikingly small number for a country of 40 million people and a chain that was opening a couple of hundred restaurants a year at home.

Then the pace changed. Chipotle’s Canadian managing director said in 2022 that the plan was eight to ten new restaurants that year, with Alberta named as the next province. That happened. By late 2025 independent location trackers counted 73 Canadian restaurants, and Chipotle’s own July 2026 statement put the figure at approximately 80. Growth of that shape, roughly tripling in four years, is what a chain does when a market has finally proved itself.

Which provinces have a Chipotle

Three, and only three: Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta. That has been the shape of the estate since Alberta came online, and there has been no announced move into Quebec or Atlantic Canada.

The distribution is lopsided even inside those three provinces. Ontario held around 43 of the 73 restaurants counted at the end of 2025, British Columbia around 20 and Alberta around 10. Toronto alone had 17. If you are in the Greater Toronto Area or Metro Vancouver you have real choice. If you are in Thunder Bay or Kelowna, you are driving.

The Quebec absence gets asked about constantly, and there is no official explanation for it. The plausible reading is a combination of French-language signage and labeling requirements, a competitive local fast-casual market, and the simple fact that Chipotle expands outward from existing supply lines rather than jumping. Ontario restaurants can be supplied from a distribution network that already reaches the GTA. Montreal would need its own. Treat that as informed reasoning, not company policy.

Is the Canadian menu different?

Not in any way that will ruin your day. The build is identical: burrito, bowl, tacos, salad, quesadilla, with the same protein lineup and the same assembly line format. The differences are at the edges. Limited-time items sometimes land in the US first and arrive in Canada months later, or not at all. Drink selections vary because bottling and distribution deals are national. Our guide to what Chipotle has on the menu describes the American lineup, which is the closest thing to a global default.

Pricing is the bigger practical difference. Canadian menu prices are in Canadian dollars and are not a straight currency conversion of the US price. Expect a chicken burrito to sit somewhere in the low-to-mid teens in Canadian dollars in most markets, with downtown Toronto and Vancouver at the upper end. That is broadly comparable to the US price once you account for the exchange rate, sometimes slightly worse. Our breakdown of how much Chipotle costs covers the American pricing structure in detail, and the same logic about protein tiers, guacamole upcharges and double meat applies north of the border.

One genuinely useful Canadian detail that thin articles miss: Chipotle opened its first Canadian Chipotlane in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, in the fall of 2021, and drive-thru pickup lanes have been a standard part of Canadian openings since. If you are used to American Chipotlanes, the rules are the same. You order in the app first. You cannot order at the window.

How to check before you travel

Canadian restaurants live on a separate locations site from the American one, which is why a US store finder sometimes tells people there is nothing near them when there is. If you are searching from a US phone, the app may default to the US market. Our guide to finding the nearest Chipotle walks through the store locator properly, including the country-specific sites.

Every country with a Chipotle, in one table

Counts below are the best available as of August 2026, drawn from Chipotle’s own July 2026 statements and its public location directories. Treat the small numbers as approximate. A single opening changes the German figure by 50 percent.

The UK: yes, there is Chipotle in London, and the history is worse than the brand admits

British searchers get served some of the worst information on this topic, usually because American writers assume the UK either has none or has hundreds. Neither is true. Chipotle has been operating in Britain since 2010 and currently runs just over twenty restaurants, almost all of them inside London.

The first British Chipotle opened on Charing Cross Road in 2010. It was followed by a run of central London sites, and in 2013 by a suburban restaurant in Wimbledon that was meant to test whether the format worked outside the tourist and office core. It did not. Wimbledon closed in 2016, and the company effectively stopped opening restaurants in Britain for three and a half years. During that stretch it kept a foothold through a delivery-only kitchen with Deliveroo Editions in Battersea rather than a real storefront, which tells you how close the market came to being written off.

The restart came in January 2019 with a new restaurant near Monument in the City of London, the first British opening in nearly four years. By 2020 the estate had shrunk to about eight sites, all in London. From there it has climbed steadily. Chipotle passed twenty British restaurants in 2024 with an opening on Gloucester Road, and has continued opening since.

Where the British restaurants actually are

Overwhelmingly central and inner London, with a clear bias toward office districts, transport hubs and shopping destinations. The current estate includes sites on Charing Cross Road, Tottenham Court Road, Baker Street, High Holborn, St Martin’s Lane, London Wall, King William Street, Gloucester Road, Upper Street in Islington, West End Lane, Northcote Road, Lordship Lane, Putney High Street and Chiswick High Road, plus the two big Westfield malls at Stratford and White City, Canary Wharf, and Lakeside in Essex.

Outside London the list is short. Chipotle’s British directory currently shows Guildford and Twickenham alongside London, and a Watford restaurant opened in 2022 as the company’s first site outside the capital. Nothing in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Bristol, Liverpool or Newcastle. If you live north of Watford, the honest answer is that a Chipotle trip means a train to London.

How the British restaurants differ

Less than you would guess. The line is the same, the proteins are the same, the tortillas are the same size, and the ordering ritual is identical, which means our guide to ordering at Chipotle transfers directly. The most common British complaint on review sites is portion size, with regulars claiming servings run smaller than in the US. That is subjective and varies by store and by server, exactly as it does in America, so treat it as folklore with a grain of truth rather than policy.

Pricing is in pounds and runs higher than a straight conversion of the American price. Central London rents do most of that work. Rewards accounts are separate by country, so American points do not travel. Opening hours also skew later in the morning than American stores: British sites frequently open around 11am rather than the American standard of 10:45am, and central London sites close earlier than a suburban American store would. Our guide to what time Chipotle opens explains the US schedule, which is the baseline everything else deviates from.

France and Germany: small, static, and easy to miss

Continental Europe is where the international story gets thin. Chipotle runs about six restaurants in France and two in Germany. That is the whole continental estate.

France

The French restaurants sit in Paris and its immediate suburbs, plus Lyon. The current directory lists Paris itself, Levallois-Perret just northwest of the city, Vélizy-Villacoublay to the southwest, and Lyon. The best known site is the large Boulevard Saint-Germain restaurant, which drew attention when it opened as one of the biggest Chipotle restaurants anywhere.

France has been a slow market for the same reasons Britain was. A country with a deeply established lunch culture, high commercial rents in the only neighborhoods that generate the right traffic, and no existing consumer familiarity with the brand is a hard place to build a fast-casual burrito chain. Chipotle has not announced a French expansion program, and the count has been broadly flat for years. If you are in Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, Nice, Nantes or Lille, there is nothing.

Germany

Two restaurants, both in Frankfurt. Chipotle entered Germany in the mid-2010s and has essentially left the market where it found it. There has been no announced expansion into Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Cologne or anywhere else, and the German estate has been the smallest of any country Chipotle operates in for most of a decade.

It is worth being blunt about what this means. Two restaurants in a country of 84 million people is not a market position, it is a foothold that has been kept alive rather than grown. Whether Chipotle eventually invests in Germany properly or quietly exits is genuinely unknown, and anyone telling you they know which way it goes is guessing.

The rest of Europe

Nothing. No Chipotle in Ireland, Spain, Portugal, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Poland, Czechia, Greece, Denmark, Sweden, Norway or Finland. This surprises people because American brands are otherwise well represented across Europe, but most of those brands franchise and Chipotle does not. That single structural fact explains more of the map than anything about local taste.

Kuwait, the UAE and Qatar: the partner model, explained

The Gulf restaurants work differently from every other Chipotle on earth, and the difference matters if you are setting expectations before you walk in.

In the United States, Canada, Britain, France and Germany, Chipotle owns and operates every restaurant itself. The company has said repeatedly that it is the only restaurant business of its size that does this across all of its US, Canadian and European stores. There are no franchisees. Nobody buys a Chipotle. If you have ever wondered about the economics of that, our guide to what it costs to open a Chipotle covers why the company protects the model so hard.

The Middle East is the exception. Chipotle signed its first international development agreement with Alshaya Group, the Kuwait-headquartered operator that runs Starbucks, Shake Shack, The Cheesecake Factory and dozens of other Western brands across the Gulf. Under that agreement Alshaya builds and runs the restaurants, employs the staff and handles local supply, while Chipotle licenses the brand, the recipes, the operating standards and the design.

What “partner restaurant” actually means for you

The Gulf timeline is short and easy to keep straight. The first Middle East restaurant opened in Kuwait in April 2024. Dubai followed on 2 October 2024. Qatar joined on 29 September 2025 with a restaurant at Villaggio Mall in Doha, and Abu Dhabi has picked up multiple sites since. As of 30 June 2026 the three countries together held 15 partner-operated restaurants, and openings have continued through the year.

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman do not have Chipotle yet. Given that Alshaya operates across all of those markets, they are the obvious next candidates, but no openings have been announced. That is speculation on our part rather than a plan on record.

Mexico: open since July 2026, and no, it was never rejected

This is the newest entry on the map and the one carrying the most bad information around it, so it is worth being precise.

Chipotle opened its first restaurant in Mexico on 16 July 2026, in San Pedro Garza García, an affluent municipality inside the Monterrey metropolitan area in the state of Nuevo León. The development agreement behind it was signed with Alsea, the Mexico City-listed operator that also runs Starbucks, Domino’s and Burger King across Latin America and parts of Europe. Chipotle announced the agreement in April 2025 and took fifteen months to open the doors.

The stated plan is more restaurants in Nuevo León through the back half of 2026, followed by Mexico City in 2027. Chief executive Scott Boatwright framed the entry as a deliberate one, saying the company was going in with respect for Mexican culinary heritage. Whether that lands with Mexican diners is an open question and will take a couple of years to answer honestly.

The myth: “Mexico rejected Chipotle twice”

You will find this stated as fact across social media, in listicles and occasionally in otherwise careful articles. It is wrong, and it is a case of mistaken identity.

The chain that tried and failed in Mexico is Taco Bell. Taco Bell’s first attempt was a food cart concept in Mexico City in 1992, which closed quickly. Its second attempt was a restaurant in Monterrey in 2007, positioned openly as an American brand, which lasted about three years before closing in 2010. Mexican diners did not object to American fast food in general, since McDonald’s and KFC do fine there. They objected to paying restaurant prices for an Americanized version of food they could get fresher and cheaper from a street vendor two blocks away.

Chipotle had no Mexican restaurants at all before July 2026. It cannot have been rejected from a market it never entered. If you want the longer argument about what Chipotle’s food actually is and where it sits relative to Mexican cooking, we cover it properly in is Chipotle Mexican food, which also explains why the name refers to a smoked jalapeño rather than a region. The pepper itself gets its own guide in what is a chipotle pepper.

Hawaii: there is no Chipotle, and the reason sits in the kitchen

No. There has never been a Chipotle in Hawaii, there is not one now, and nothing has been announced. Not on Oahu, not in Waikiki, not at Ala Moana, not in Kahului or Kailua-Kona or Hilo. If a search result tells you otherwise, it is either confusing Chipotle with a local burrito shop that uses the word chipotle in its name, or it is an auto-generated page that lists every chain in every city without checking.

Hawaii is one of two states with a count of zero, and the reason is worth understanding because it explains most of the empty spaces on the map elsewhere. It is not that Hawaiians would not buy burritos. It is that Chipotle’s kitchen is built in a way that makes an island market expensive and fragile to serve.

The supply chain problem

A Chipotle kitchen has no freezers, no microwaves and no can openers. That is a real operating standard, not marketing copy. Everything arrives raw or fresh and gets cooked or cut in the restaurant that morning: whole cuts of meat marinated and grilled on site, onions and peppers sliced by hand, cilantro chopped, limes juiced, avocados mashed into guacamole in batches through the day. A single busy restaurant can go through more than fifty pounds of avocados in a day, and the company buys them by the tens of millions of pounds a year.

That model depends on frequent deliveries from a nearby distribution center holding fresh produce with a short shelf life. There are a couple of dozen of those centers across the mainland, and Chipotle opens restaurants outward from them rather than parachuting into a market and building backward. Hawaii would need its own supply arrangement from the start. Fresh produce and chilled meat would either fly in, which is expensive per pound, or come by sea under the Jones Act, which requires US-flagged, US-crewed vessels and adds cost and transit time to almost everything shipped to the islands. Neither option is friendly to a menu where the produce has to look and taste like it was cut that morning.

The knock-on effect is worse than the raw freight number suggests. A frozen-supply chain absorbs a missed delivery. A fresh one does not. If a container is delayed, a mainland store can pull from a sister restaurant an hour away. On Oahu there is no sister restaurant, and the next boat is not tomorrow.

The real estate problem

Hawaii has some of the highest commercial rents in the country, very little available retail land, and an entitlement process that is slow even by mainland standards. Chipotle’s current growth format leans heavily on the Chipotlane, the pickup-only drive-thru lane that now features in the large majority of new US openings. Those need a freestanding pad with vehicle stacking space, which is close to nonexistent in urban Honolulu and expensive everywhere else on the islands. Our guide to whether Chipotle has a drive-thru explains how the format works and why it drives site selection so strongly.

Add the labor market, where a small, tight island workforce and a high cost of living push wages up, and the return on a Hawaii restaurant looks thin next to the alternative. The alternative is another suburb in Texas, on an existing delivery route, next to an existing manager pipeline, opening in nine months instead of three years.

Two other places people ask about, for completeness: there is no Chipotle in Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands or American Samoa either. Every non-contiguous piece of the United States is a blank on this map.

What Hawaiians actually eat instead

Hawaii has a genuinely good burrito scene that most visitors never find because they are searching for a chain name. Local counter-service burrito and taco shops exist in Honolulu, on the North Shore, in Kihei and Lahaina on Maui, and around Kona and Hilo. Several of them do the same assembly-line build with better fish. If you want the Chipotle experience specifically, the closest thing is making it yourself, and our copycat Chipotle burrito guide gets you most of the way there with a grocery run.

Alaska and the thin parts of the US map

Alaska is the other state with no Chipotle. Same answer, mostly the same reasons, with distance doing even more of the work. Anchorage holds around 290,000 people and the entire state holds about 730,000, spread across a land area more than twice the size of Texas. The nearest mainland distribution point is a long way south through Canada or a long way north by barge from Seattle.

A chain that wants one restaurant in Anchorage has to build a supply route for one restaurant in Anchorage. Chipotle does not do that anywhere. Even in the lower 48 it fills in around existing routes, which is why states enter the map from their nearest edge rather than from their biggest city.

The states where the map is barely there

Every other state has at least one Chipotle, but “at least one” is doing heavy lifting in some of them. The thinnest states are the low-population and low-density ones, where the entire state count can be in single digits and every restaurant sits in the largest metro or the flagship university town.

The opposite end of the scale is predictable. California, Texas, Ohio, Florida, New York and Illinois carry the largest counts, and Ohio in particular is denser than its population would suggest because it was an early expansion market and sits on top of good distribution. The full state-by-state picture, along with the total count and how fast it is growing, lives in our guide to how many Chipotle locations there are.

Which cities do not have a Chipotle? Here is the pattern, which is more useful than a list

This gets searched constantly, usually as a quiz-style question, and every article that promises to answer it either lists a handful of famous cities or quietly gives up. The reason is arithmetic. The United States has roughly 19,500 incorporated places. Chipotle has about 4,080 restaurants, and plenty of cities hold several. So the number of American cities and towns without a Chipotle is somewhere north of 16,000. Nobody is listing those.

What you can actually learn is the pattern. Chipotle’s site selection has been consistent for twenty years, and once you know the rules you can predict your own town with fairly high accuracy.

Put those together and you get a usable rule of thumb. If your metro area has more than about 100,000 people, a Target or a comparable big-box anchor, and at least one other fast-casual chain already trading, you either have a Chipotle or you are on the list. If your nearest big-box store is 30 minutes away, you are not on the list, and no amount of local demand changes that until the distribution map moves.

The famous large cities all have restaurants. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas and Austin are all well covered. Where people get surprised is one tier down, in places like Bangor, Grand Junction, Cheyenne outside the two clusters, or the emptier stretches of the Dakotas and the rural South. The right move is always to check the official locator rather than a listicle, and our walkthrough of finding the nearest Chipotle covers the locator quirks, including how “coming soon” listings appear before an opening.

One more thing worth knowing before you drive: a restaurant existing is not the same as a restaurant being open. Hours vary more by market than most people expect, and delivery radius is narrower than the app suggests. If you are planning around it, confirm the individual restaurant’s hours on its own locator page, and if you are not going in person, check the delivery address in the app before you build a whole order you cannot receive.

Why Chipotle expands internationally so slowly

Chipotle opens somewhere between 300 and 350 restaurants a year, and has done for a while. Almost all of them are American. In the same period the entire international estate has grown by numbers you could count on your fingers. That gap is not an accident or a failure of ambition. It comes out of four specific things about how the company is built.

It owns every restaurant it opens

Chipotle does not franchise in the United States, Canada or Europe. It builds, owns and staffs every restaurant itself, and it has said openly that it is the largest restaurant company operating that way. The upside is control: consistent food, consistent training, no franchisee arguing about ingredient costs. The cost is that every single opening consumes company capital and company management bandwidth. A franchisor can enter a country by signing a contract and letting somebody else spend the money. Chipotle has to hire a country team, sign leases, build restaurants and run them, which is a completely different order of commitment. Our breakdown of what it costs to open a Chipotle gets into why the company guards this model so tightly.

The food model needs a supply chain built from scratch

The same fresh-prep standard that keeps Chipotle out of Hawaii makes every new country a logistics project before it is a restaurant project. You need growers who can meet the produce specs, a meat supply that fits the animal welfare and antibiotic standards the brand markets on, dairy, avocados at volume and at consistent ripeness, and a distribution network that delivers several times a week rather than weekly. In a market with halal requirements, as in the Gulf, you also need a compliant protein supply. None of that exists on day one, and none of it can be shipped from Ohio.

Nobody outside North America knows what a Chipotle is

Brand awareness in the US is close to universal. In Frankfurt or Lyon it is close to zero. That changes the economics of every opening, because a new American restaurant inherits demand on day one while a new German restaurant has to manufacture it. Marketing spend that works nationally in the US is wasted on two restaurants in one German city. It is a chicken-and-egg trap: you need scale to justify awareness spending and awareness to justify scale. Britain is the clearest example of what happens when you get stuck in it, with a decade of flat or shrinking estate before the recent recovery.

The US is still the easier place to put the money

This is the part that gets underweighted. Chipotle’s long-term target for the United States alone runs to several thousand more restaurants than it currently operates, and new American restaurants open into known demand with known costs and predictable returns. As long as that is true, a dollar spent on a suburb in Indiana beats a dollar spent on a first restaurant in Madrid, and the company would be making a poor decision to choose otherwise. International expansion becomes attractive when domestic saturation gets close, and it is not close yet.

Which brings up the recent change worth noticing. The Alshaya deal in the Gulf, the Alsea deal in Mexico and the SPC Group joint venture for South Korea and Singapore all hand the operating job to somebody else. That is Chipotle admitting, in practice, that its company-operated model does not scale across borders at any speed worth having. If international growth accelerates from here, it will almost certainly be through partners rather than through Chipotle-owned restaurants. For background on what the brand is and where it came from, our explainer on what Chipotle is covers the founding story and the Denver origins.

Where Chipotle goes next

Two things here are on the record and everything else is reading tea leaves. Keep the two categories separate, because a lot of travel plans have been ruined by somebody’s confident guess getting repeated as a press release.

Confirmed and dated

Informed guesses, clearly labeled as guesses

Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Oman look like the most obvious next countries, purely because Alshaya already operates across all three with other brands and the incremental cost of adding Chipotle to an existing Gulf supply chain is low. Nothing has been announced.

Inside Canada, Quebec is the biggest hole on the map and the one most likely to close eventually, though the French-language labeling and signage requirements plus a crowded local fast-casual market are real friction. Atlantic Canada and the Prairies look further out, since they would need supply lines that do not exist yet.

In Britain, the natural next step is a real move outside the southeast. Manchester and Birmingham are the cities that come up most often in speculation, and the company has already proved with Watford that it will open outside London when the site works. Continental Europe is harder to call. France has been flat for years and Germany has been flat for longer, and a serious push into either would be a change of policy rather than a continuation of one.

Places that get asked about and have nothing announced: Australia, Japan, India, Brazil, Ireland, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, South Africa and every other African market. Some of those have strong local burrito chains already, which raises the bar rather than lowering it. If you see a confident article claiming Chipotle is opening in Sydney or Dublin next year, check whether it cites anything. Usually it does not.

What to eat when there is no Chipotle where you are

Assuming the answer for your location turned out to be no, you have three routes: a chain that does the same thing, a local place that does it better, or your own kitchen. All three are fine. The assembly-line burrito is not a difficult format to copy, which is precisely why so many countries have their own version of it.

In the United States

Qdoba is the closest direct equivalent and the one most likely to be in a town Chipotle skipped, partly because it franchises and can therefore reach smaller markets. Moe’s Southwest Grill covers a lot of the Southeast. In Texas you have Freebirds World Burrito, in the Mountain West you have Cafe Rio and Costa Vida, and in the Carolinas and Georgia you have Barberitos. Baja Fresh and Rubio’s cover parts of the West Coast.

If what you actually miss is the format rather than the food, CAVA runs the same build-your-own line with Mediterranean ingredients and has been expanding fast into exactly the kind of suburban retail Chipotle likes. The calorie math works differently, since the pita and grain bowls behave nothing like a flour tortilla, and our CAVA calorie calculator handles that side of it.

In Canada

Ontario and the Prairies are well served by Burrito Boyz, Fat Bastard Burrito and Mucho Burrito. Barburrito operates across several provinces. Montreal, which has no Chipotle at all, has an excellent independent taqueria scene that most Chipotle-shaped cravings survive contact with.

In the UK and Ireland

Tortilla is the obvious substitute in Britain and reaches far more cities than Chipotle does, including Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham and Glasgow. Barburrito covers the north of England well. Benito’s Hat and Pilpel-style independents fill in around London. In Ireland, where Chipotle has no restaurants at all, Boojum is the standard answer and has locations across Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Galway.

Elsewhere

Australia has Guzman y Gomez, Mad Mex and Zambrero, all of them more widespread than Chipotle is in any country outside North America. New Zealand has Zambrero too. In Mexico, the honest advice is to skip the chain question entirely and eat at a taqueria, which is the food Chipotle’s menu is a distant relative of rather than a copy. We get into that relationship properly in is Chipotle Mexican food.

Or build it at home

The copycat route is more realistic than people assume, because the hard parts of Chipotle are technique rather than secret ingredients. Cilantro-lime rice is rice, lime juice, cilantro and a little oil. The chicken is a chipotle-in-adobo marinade on thigh meat, cooked hot and fast, then chopped. The corn salsa is corn, poblano, red onion, lime and cilantro. Our step-by-step for making a Chipotle burrito at home covers the whole build, and if you want to match a specific order’s calories or macros while you are portioning, the Chipotle nutrition calculator gives you the per-ingredient numbers to work from.

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