Will Pollo ala Brasa Still be the Same After the Move
If cities had official birds (do cities have official birds?) is there any doubt that Los Angeles’s would be the chicken. The people in this city looooove chicken, or maybe they just hate pigs and cows? Or… maybe they love pigs and cows, and want to spare them. Not likely. I suspect the real reason people in L.A. prefer chicken so much is because pigs and cows don’t have boneless white meat breasts, that can be grilled and served in sandwich or salad form inevitably topped with avocado. Sometimes it makes me angry. But there are benefits to this city’s obsession with chicken, namely the obscene amount of amazing rotisserie (and rotisserie’ish) chicken options at our disposable. There’s the garlic sauce goodness of Zankou, Al Wazir, RoRo’s and Gaby’s. The red chicken juice topped french fries you get at Dino’s. And of course there’s the smokey wood fired Peruvian rotisserie chicken. I found a pretty great version at El Dorado (on Vine just north of Melrose), but everybody knows that the industry standard is Polla ala Brasa, a 20+ year old shack on Western & 8th.
A year ago Squid Ink reported that Pollo ala Brasa would be moving into a larger space, and it looks like they’re getting real close to being finished. Clearly it was time to go say goodbye to the original…
Posted at 10:55 am, May 18th, 2011 under Koreatown, Peruvian, Pollo ala Brasa, Rotisserie Chicken.
