Tag Archives: El Pollo Rico

The great Arlington chicken taste-off

By Emily | Published: February 19, 2009

I’ve heard it called Peruvian chicken, roasted chicken or chicken ala brasa. However you name it, it’s delicious. That spit-roasted chicken with spiced, crispy skin is served with standard potato or yucca fries. And maybe a salad of iceburg lettuce too, if you are lucky. Cooked chickens are hacked into quarters — as you watch [...]

Posted in DC Fringes, Virginia | Also tagged ala brasa, Anthony Bourdain, Arlington, chicken, Crisp and Juicy, No Reservations, Northern Virinia, Peruvian, Super Pollo, The Chicken Place, Virginia | 2 Comments

Bourdain does Nothern Va.

By Emily | Published: January 25, 2009

Author and chef Anthony Bourdain’s travel show No Reservations was the inspiration for this blog. So, it’s no small event when the show features D.C. In the episode Bourdain paints this capital as a city of “haves and have not.” And in We’re Out of Here style, Bourdain hits up the dining places of the [...]