Jeanne B. wrote: > > Sam Edelman in Pittsburgh Magazine evidently liked Pollo Rey in > Oakland. What does anyone else think? The first time I ate there, I > agreed with him -- my first impression was that all the ingredients > tasted very fresh. The second time, though, I realized I was hard > pressed to find any chicken in my chicken burrito. > > Jeanne I tried them once. I had a steak burrito. The best think I could say about it is that it had a lot of meat in it. But I didn't like it. It had too much other *crap* in it! Like rice. Rice does not belong in a burrito. I also generally prefer my burritos without beans (the exception being a breakfast burrito with bacon, eggs, beans, and cheese - but that's not a real burrito anyway). I like just meat in my burritos like the exquisitely good "burritos de carnitas" that I used to get at La Tolteca on Imperial Highway in Hawthorne, CA, when I lived out there. Succulent cubes of crisply fried pork with an excellent salsa cruda loaded with cilantro. Ah!!! Heaven. So Pollo Rey's food is certainly filling and does't taste too awful so I guess you get your money's worth in that respect but it's pretty much your "McDonald's" version of Mexican fast food. Kate
Pittsburgh, PA