El Pollo Inka Peru
“Jalea – picture fried calamari but with squid, fish, clams, etc it's so good 🙂
GREEN SAUCE IS AMAZING!!”
“If you ever went there when it was Punto Fijo…”
“They are just missing their liquor license, sangria would have been great along with our wonderful meal.”
El Pollo Inka Peru
Takes Reservations: Yes
Delivery: Yes
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Has TV: Yes
Waiter Service: Yes
Caters: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Great place for chicken. The chicken is well cooked with crusty, tasty, and well done skin. Other places cooked their chickens until dried, this place is opposite. This place makes you crave for the chicken after tasting it once… Yummy!
I used to come to this place when it had a different name, new owners? idk.
But still Delicious Peruvian food. Chicken is juicy and moist. Ordered the mixed ceviche, yummy too.
I love pio pio but hate the new place bc its so loud and noisy. This place is great because its much quiter and you can talk to your dinner mates. Service is a little slow but not horrible. No beer or sangria… Booo!!
The food was good. The place is a reasonable size but a bit noisy and there is no liquor license. Not for beer or wine however there is a semi bar area. I guess that is a service area. Nearly all the customers were of spanish background except me, my husband and another asian couple eating almost the same food. I had the Lomo and the fries and mini hot dog app. They were good.. but if only they served beer or wine.
I'm in Love with this Place!!!! The food is Amazing, large portions and cheap!!! You can't beat their value. $20 combo that will feed a hungry party of 4 and you will still have left over for the next day…say what!!!
This is a great place for large crowds or even as a take out for a large gathering. Their chicken is super juicy and bursting with flavor. The Avocado Salad…lets just that that it comes with their homemade "crack" dressing that will leave you wanting more and more! Besides the food, their service is also excellent!
Bottom Line: This place is legit! Be sure to try it out soon, you won't be disappointed!
The "B" health rating has always stopped me from trying their food, but we were tired of eating charred rotisserie chickens from other Peruvian restaurants, so I decided to take the risk.
We got a whole chicken and a ceviche de corvina to go. The place was much nicer than the old Punto Fijo. Food was ready after 10 min. The chicken looked golden brown. I couldn't believe how juicy the chicken breast was. I usually don't care for Peruvian rotisserie chicken since it's too salty for me, but this chicken was so well seasoned. It was moist even for white meat, the green sauce was creamier, good flavor… I actually liked the ceviche but L said he prefers the one from Urubamba. The portion was quite generous. The food was delicious..
Staff was friendly. Will try other items on their menu next time.
I came here looking to get a tat. Only to find out that they don't do f***ing tats. They don't even do piercings. I'm considering a formal complaint because calling yourself "El Pollo Ink" and then refusing to "ink me" is unforgiveable. It was a pretty easy job I asked for, too. I just wanted the entire overhead blueprint plans of the Ancient City of Macchu Picchu all across my back, and then the Nazca Lines across my pecs. I had a great idea for how my nipples could be incorporated as part of the artwork. But no. Denied. I am f***ing p**sed about it. In case you couldn't f***ing tell.
What to get: Peruvian Rotisserie Chicken with Green Sauce
What else: I'm going back for a 9th or 10th time soon and will hopefully finally try Lomo Saltado
And then what: Best Peruvian Chicken in NYC, and some of the best in USA
And what did Grandmaster Flash teach us: That Nazca Lines are better than White Lines
If you think you've found better rotisserie chicken than this, then Peru-ve it.
One of my final 10 reviews of NYC (I saved the best for last) because it's just… that… good. Wonderful service, lovely people, good prices (especially if you just get a quarter chicken or something), insanely good rotisserie chicken, and the magical, addictive Green Sauce that everyone and their adopted stepmother loves.
We're actually considering renaming my home country to "Inkaland" because of this chicken. If human flesh tastes like *this* particular chicken then no wonder Anthony Hopkins is such a fan of nomming it. I wonder if he uses the green sauce too. I guess he prefers Fava Beans.
I've had amazing Peruvian Chicken in DC (El Pollo Rico) and a few other places, but El Pollo Inka is my fave in NYC (just ahead of near by Casa Del Pollo Peruano and Caravan Chicken), although all three are five star places. This little gem is mid-priced if you want main Peruvian dishes (and I haven't tried them yet, but will soon), however what I've been here for nearly 10 times now is the *amazing* exemplary succulent steaming soft juicy heavenly marinaded fall-off-the-bone sexual experience known as the Peruvian Rotisserie Chicken.
If you're offended by me exposing myself while we eat these delicious chicks together (pieces of rotisserie chicken are called "chicks" in England), then I would advise you to stop being so Perudish.
The accompanying Green Sauce is so addictive and so magnificent, that I can honestly say it's as good as the chicken itself, which is very, very, very high praise. Higher than Melle Mel and the Furious Five after sampling some of Grandmaster Flash's infamous White Lines. Now I'm having fun, baby.
So I love this chicken so much I'm now going to rap about it.
Yo, yo, uh, uh
I did okay at college yo, cuz I was a thinka,
Didn't make friends tho, cuz I'm not a drinka,
Dumped my last gf cuz she liked to wear Minka,
But no chick tastes better than El Pollo Inka
Didn't ride Titanic cuz I heard it was a sinka,
Quit my job as a farmer cuz it always made me stinka,
I dress up on the weekends in Victoria's Secret Pinka,
But no chick tastes better than El Pollo Inka
I use Office Max cuz I hate to go to Kinka,
Had to go last night cause toner's low on my Printa,
Running out of rhymes but I like to play Jenga,
But no chick tastes better than El Pollo Inka
Final verse now and all my mind has gone blanka,
Trying to freestyle but now this doesn't rhyme at all-a,
Feeling like White Rabbit in the first battle in Eight-Mile-a,
My palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy
I vomited on Starlight already, Peruvian Chicken
She's nervous, but on the surface we looks calm and ready to eat Chicken,
But I keeps on forgetting what I wrote down,
The Peruvian Clientele grows so loud
I opens my mouth, but the Pollo won't go down
I'm choking how, everybody's joking now
The clock's run out, time's up, over, bleurgh!
Snap back to reality, Oh there goes gravity
Oh, there goes Foxy, he choked
He's so mad, but he won't give up that easy, no
He won't have it, he knows his whole back's to the pollo
This rotisserie's dope
He knows that but he's broke
But it's so cheap, and he knows
When he goes back on his Mobile Phone App, it's
Back to the car again, yo
But first snap some photos and crap,
He better go capture this Chicken and hope he don't throw it up again
You better feed yourself with the chicken, the green sauce, Peruvian
You better try and keep it down
You only get one piece, do not miss the green sauce too
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime (Peru!)
You better feed yourself with the chicken, the green sauce, Peruvian
You better try and keep it down
You only get one piece, do not miss the green sauce too
This opportunity comes once in a lifetime (Peru!)
Now I'mma exit on 8 Mile Rd, without using my blinka
But, yo, no chick tastes better than El Pollo Inka
Me and some friends decided to meet-up after work for dinner, and I suggested we try El Pollo Inka as I've eaten lunch here before.
First off, about 3 minutes away is the famous Pio Pio, another Peruvian restaurant that is very well known. We've eaten at Pio Pio several times and the food there is awesome but can get pricey as the restaurant is pretty big and very well decorated. In comparison El Pollo Inka is much smaller and casual (not in a negative way at all).
We were pretty hungry so we ordered 3 apps: the diced cow hearts, tamales, and the mussels ceviche.
Let me tell you I've never eaten heart before, and being a lean muscle I was expecting a relatively tough piece of meat with a texture similar to other organ meats. Boy was I wrong; the heart was nice and juicy, well seasoned, and had no organ meat taste/texture. I could have sworn it was a nice skirt steak.
The tamale was pretty good, but nothing wowing.
The mussel ceviche was really tasty with plenty of powerful citrus flavor and the mussels were very fresh.
For the entree we ordered the Inka combo 4 which consists of 1 whole grilled chicken, 1 fried rice, 1 avocado salad, 1 serving of red beans, 1 platter of french fries & sliced hot dogs, and 1 plate of sweet plantains.
All the side dishes were very good, but of particular note were the french fries and sliced hot dogs. I wasn't expecting much from this side dish but the fries were fried perfectly (come on who doesn't like a nice french fry!), and the hot dogs were really tasty (tasted more like a nice pork sausage).
The chicken was equally good, and being the highlight of the entree I can't help but compare it to the famous Pio Pio grilled chicken. Tenderness and juiciness of the chicken I can honestly say is pretty much equal between the restaurants, but in my opinion the Pio Pio is seasoned a little more (again not a bad thing).
It really comes down to whether you like your grilled chicken a little more seasoned. When it comes down to it, I love my Peruvian grilled chicken with copious amounts of the traditional table side jalapeno sauce, so it's all good.
In my opinion El Pollo Inka is pretty much Pio Pio minus the fancy decor and higher price.
Im gonna give them 4.3 stars for fast food…
I had guests who wanted Pollo Inka rather than Pio Pio. I got the combo and for $20 got a whole chicken, rice, and an avocado salad. This was cheaper than Pio Pio. The food was pretty good.
I was given my food quickly and the people were very nice to me. I am told that the green hot sauce is so much better at Pollo Inka. I took a star off because the Pio Pio to go place is on point with to go condiments. You get utensils, sauces and even wet naps standard in my experience. That stuff was not sent from Pollo Inka. There was just one small salad dressing with a huge salad. The point of take out is that I dont want to have to make something.
I gave .3 back because they are local and good.
If you want loud and proud, go to pio pio. If you want food and some peace, go to pollo inka.