El Pollo Rico
When a restaurant only has one item on their menu, has no website, yet constantly has lines stretching out the door, you know it has to be good. Such is the case with El Pollo Rico. We first heard about El Pollo Rico on an episode of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations. The chicken looked pretty good on TV, but we knew there had to be more than meets the eye if one of Travel Channel’s highest rated shows was profiling it.
After trying it out, we were hooked. It’s THAT good. El Pollo Rico is in our regular rotation of our take-out dinners, and since we needed a quick meal tonight, El Pollo Rico it was! For $8, you get a delicious meal for two: one quarter of juicy, tender, roasted chicken, marinated in a mystery of pure goodness, fries (a nice mix of big soft soggy ones and little crispy ones), and delicious homemade coleslaw. The meal is satisfying to both our stomachs and our wallets. It can’t be beat.
And to top it off, we washed it down with a Mexican Coke from Bakeshop across the street from our building. The genius of Mexican Coke is in the cane sugar. This meal is the perfect marriage of food and beverage.
