Print$6.50 Quarter-Chicken and Two Sides Deal from Senor Pollo
The Senor Pollo madness started with fellow Serious Eats contributor Kathy YL Chan. A few months ago she professed her Senor Pollo love in her blog and has since then repeatedly informed me, "You can get a quarter chicken and two sides for only $6.50—it's so good!" with such zeal that if we were in a cartoon, little pink hearts would've popped up next to her face. Not being one to turn down Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken (or meals that cost less than $10), I finally got my Senor Pollo Night last Wednesday.
Along with Kathy and two other friends, we each went for the $6.50 deal. With 12 sides to choose from, you could go as healthy as salad and steamed vegetables, or fill your plate with fried starches. I went for a fried/non-fried starch combo of fried yucca and mashed potatoes with spinach. If I ever get the chance to have fried yucca sticks over french fries, I take it; I like the more substantial texture of yucca. The creamy mashed potatoes weren't bland, but didn't have much spinach flavor either; at least the green tint said, "There's spinach in here somewhere."
As for the chicken, it was moist enough and the skin was appealingly crisp. Everything tasted better with the accompanying sauces: a non-spicy parsley and oil sauce, a spicy creamy sauce (aji sauce), and a creamy garlic sauce (mojo sauce I assume, which we received upon my friend's request to use as dipping sauce for her tostones).
While you may not go out of your way for Senor Pollo, if I worked or lived near Senor Pollo (Kathy lives around the corner), I would be a repeat customer for the $6.50 deal. You can sit down, get fast, friendly service, and leave feeling satisfied, not overly stuffed.
Senor Pollo
221 1st Avenue, New York, NY 10003 (b/n 13th and 14th;map)
212-777-0362
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2 Comments:
That looks great! I just had Peruvian chicken for lunch today, a quarter chicken with two sides (fried yucca, my favorite too, and cuban-style black beans) for $5! But I live in Rockville, so it would be cheaper than NY. But every other Peruvian chicken place in the area is around $6-7, so this place is super cheap. And there is an indian market next door with $.65 samosas, of which I had to buy two. Huge lunch for around $6.50, awesome.
coolblursn at 3:02PM on 09/22/09
Flor de Mayo in morningside heights has a better deal, even when adjusted for morningside heights standards. For $8, you get half a peruvian chicken, salad, and most exciting, fried plantains. Absurdly tasty -- the dark meat is perfection, thought the white meat's a bit dry, but when isn't it? And the half chicken really borders on full chicken. I shamefully had to take some home (it couldn't go to waste...).
jkinsman at 1:35AM on 09/23/09