Beef Barbacoa Taco at Chipotle. 306 calories, $4.70, 15 g protein.
At 306 calories it is lighter than 75% of the 76 Chipotle items we track, against a menu median of 560. It delivers 4.9 g of protein per 100 calories, 27th of 64 items with published protein. At 65 calories per dollar it is 48th of 76 priced items on value.
| Item | Calories | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Sofritas Taco | 300 | −6 |
| Steak Taco | 300 | −6 |
| Chain | Item | Calories | Nutrient density |
|---|---|---|---|
| Taco Bell | Tajín® Taco | 210 | — |
Priced at 4128 Chipotle restaurants in 49 states on the same day. The middle 80% of them charge between $4.45 and $5.10, a spread of 15%.
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The cheapest Beef Barbacoa Taco in the sample is $2.90 in Hyannis, MA, and the most expensive is $5.65 in San Francisco, CA. Both are single restaurants, which is why the headline above uses the middle 80% instead.
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About half the variation happens between restaurants inside one state, so a state median hides as much as it shows. Of the 47 states with at least three sampled restaurants, these are the four cheapest and the four most expensive — the 39 in between are not listed.
| State | Median | Restaurants | End |
|---|---|---|---|
| ND | $4.47 | 4 | cheapest |
| MN | $4.50 | 98 | cheapest |
| MS | $4.50 | 13 | cheapest |
| KS | $4.53 | 42 | cheapest |
| NY | $5.38 | 252 | most expensive |
| CA | $5.10 | 531 | most expensive |
| ME | $5.00 | 7 | most expensive |
| VT | $5.00 | 5 | most expensive |
151 of the 4,147 restaurants we price have changed this since 2026-09-07. Where it moved, the typical change was +3.2%. A typical one now charges $4.70.
2026-09-07 · $4.57 to 2026-09-26 · $4.70. Point at a day, or tab to it, for that day's median and how many restaurants it came from.
The median across the restaurants priced each day. It can step when our coverage of the chain grows, which is why the sentence above counts restaurants rather than reading this line.
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The 5 items whose national median sits closest to the Beef Barbacoa Taco’s $4.70. The spread is the middle 80% of restaurants, so a wide one means the same item costs noticeably different amounts depending where you buy it.
| Item | Median | Spread | Restaurants |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steak Taco | $4.70 | 15% | 4,121 |
| Side of Pollo Asado (SidePolloAsado) | $4.60 | 10% | 4,121 |
| Chips & Queso Blanco (ChipsQueso) | $4.90 | 7% | 4,122 |
| Carnitas Taco | $4.20 | 16% | 4,127 |
| Side of Chicken (SideChicken) | $4.00 | 12% | 4,124 |
| Nutrient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Calcium | 9.1 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 2.3 g |
| Iron | 2.0 mg |
| Protein | 15 g |
| Saturated Fat | 1.3 g |
| Sodium | 657 mg |
| Sugars | 0.0 g |
| Total Carbohydrate | 41 g |
| Total Fat | 10 g |
| Trans Fat | 0.0 g |
Chipotle publishes the protein, not a finished taco. This panel adds one soft flour tortilla (the first tortilla Chipotle lists). Salsa, cheese, and sour cream are optional and are not counted.