Okay, a chicken wrap is usually the last thing I'd order for lunch. But a chicken
thigh wrap ($6.25)? At a chicken-focused restaurant? Sounds a little more promising.
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How often do you eat a chicken sandwich and think,
wow? Really,
wow. Ever? It's a rare situation but the
Chicken Francese from
Rubirosa ($10) lives in that special realm.
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Rotisserie chicken is great. Peruvian style rotisserie chicken is even better—and Peruvian-style rotisserie chicken combination meals are the best. Imagine a whole roasted chicken, salad, tostones, rice, beans, and salchipapas (french fries and fried hot dog slices), and as much...
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[Photograph: Adam Kuban] In a decidedly upscale take on the pizza-and-wings combo that the chain places push, Motorino Brooklyn in Williamsburg has started offering its own version of the chicken side. Blanched first and then fire-roasted in the same...
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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...
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"It was fiendishly hot. So much that Hell Chicken might be a better moniker." It’s been far too long since I partook in the fiery fare at stall No. 31 in Flushing's Golden Shopping Mall. The last time I visited...
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"People might love the ribs here the exact same way I love my most well-worn muumuu." It has all the signs of deliciousness. Calvin's Royal Rib House, a 30-year barbecue and soul food joint in Bed-Stuy—I would love to avoid...
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Despite a supposed dip in chicken production nationwide, New York didn't seem to be in trouble on Super Bowl Sunday. Plenty of chicken wings were consumed; plenty of red-orange fingernails to prove it. Uh, 32,000 pounds of wings alone from Atomic Wings?!
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When cut in half, a pretzel croissant from City Bakery looks oddly like a chicken drumstick. The built-in handle makes the croissant easier to eat, although no matter what you do you're going to get buttery flakes of dough...
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Canto-pop stylin's, chicken crack, and Homer Simpson (the patron saint of takoyaki). Heading to dinner in Chinatown, I spied a paunchy Homer statue holding up a sign for takoyaki. Though unsuccessful in coaxing my boyfriend onto Homer's lap, I...
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