The latest outlet of Señor Chicken opened about two months ago in a sterile, high-ceiling space in Columbia Heights, an environment far removed from the smoky little dens of Northern Virginia. Best I could tell, this Peruvian chicken parlor was run by a lone señor, who fetched my order of pollo a la brasa from a holding unit that (I swear!) [...]
3 Y&H thought he would engage in a little warm-up battle before taking on the ultimate pollo a la brasa challenge later this winter. (Scroll to the comments section of that link to get an eye-ful.) So here are today's challengers: El Pollo Rico in Wheaton vs. Super Chicken in Falls Church. I'll tell you one thing that I [...]
El Pollo Rico's bird, not to be confused with Pollo Wow!'s The strip mall on New Hampshire Avenue, just south of University Boulevard, feels stuck in some parody of '70s-era urban/suburban life. If you walk the full length of the strip, you won't find a single Starbucks or T-Mobile or any other corporate storefront. Instead, [...]
The owners of the small Crisp & Juicy chain are living the dream. They've taken a once foreign dish—seriously, who knew about Peruvian chicken 20 years ago?—and introduced it to Washingtonians in the most American of ways: via shopping malls like Westfield Wheaton and strip centers like the Blair Shops in Silver Spring. But if [...]
