El Pollo Rico is back!!! Let the rejoicing commence!
I just ate the best chicken one can buy in the Washington DC metro area. After a weekend of excellent food, this was perhaps the best thing I ate (with the possible exception of my pumpkin pies, those were quite nice and I do love pumpkin pie). If it weren’t raining, I’d consider shouting from the rooftop.
El Pollo Rico makes rotisserie chicken–that’s it–and its the best around. It was a special type of restaurant in its previous incarnation, a hole in the wall in a strip of otherwise forgettable stores in Wheaton. The food is excellent, the prices are cheap. People of all races, ethnicities, and socio-economic classes would line up to wait up to a half hour at times, to take away one of these special chickens for dinner. As loyal and devoted readers might remember, I chronicled the earlier difficulties of El Pollo Rico.
To sum up: busted for money laundering and immigration violations. Re opened (with new workers…) during the trial. Burnt down, along with the neighboring Army-Navy surplus store, in a grease fire… Sign appears in the new strip of shops on the corner of University and Georgia. Grand opening, and they are back in business, and I can happily report, the chicken is as good as ever.
My favorite chicken place is back!
Dr. Peter Howard focuses on US foreign policy and international security. He studies how the implementation of foreign policy programs produces rule-based regional security regimes, conducting research in Estonia on NATO Expansion and US Military Exchange programs and South Korea on nuclear negotiations with North Korea.
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