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    Chicken Rico

    3.9 (118 reviews)
    Closed 11:00 am - 9:00 pm

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    CHICKEN RICO ATMOSPHERE

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    Casual
    Moderate noise
    Good for kids
    Good for groups

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    Trendy D.

    This is a good cost effective go to! They really know how to give you A LOT OF FOOD!! I usually get the half of chicken, yuca, and beans and rice. I would highly recommend this place!

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    Kenyatte S.

    After a day of shopping at the Leesburg outlet mall, my husband and I decided to grab some lunch at Chicken Rico. My husband got the chicken quesadilla and I got the taco salad with chicken. The presentation of the food was great! However, the taco salad shell was not crispy and the chicken used in the salad was slightly over cooked and difficult to chew. The quesadilla was delicious! The green sauces provided were amazing and I was a bit jealous that I did not get the same thing. Maybe they were having an off day. I do plan on going back to try something else. My food was not horrible, it just was not what I was expecting.

    1/4 chicken special includes choice of 2 sides, here with salad and mac n cheese.  Mac n cheese was very good,  the chicken was uninspiring.
    Richard E.

    I ordered the 1/4 chicken special which included 2 sides. The chicken was moist but not very flavorful in my opinion. There are better Peruvian chicken places in the area. The mac and cheese was very good. In short, if your car is in for repair and one of the service stations across the street, it is a handy place to eat while you wait. Otherwise, i'd choose other places in town if your hankering is for Peruvian chicken.

    Fred W.

    We are regular customer to chicken Rico today we went in and ask for a smaller sizes of sides The answer was NO... The cashier was extremely rude. I'm a restaurant owner myself this was really low.

    Deborah C.

    CR is located in the Gold's Gym/Petco shopping center in a stand alone building next to Tropical Smoothie. I usually pop in after work and order sides which includes mac & cheese, white rice and mashed potatoes. Their yellow sauce is the best! When I do order chicken (1/4) it is moist. With sides it is well priced to feed a family. Portions are generous.

    1/4 chicken with yucca fries and potato salad!
    Victor H.

    One of the better PPPs (Peruvian Pollo Places) I've been too and it's right in smack dab middle of Leesburg. An extension of their Herndon location, it serves up a tasty rotisserie dirty bird along with great sides. Favorites are the yucca fries, veggies, potato salad, and spicy chickpeas. If you don't want their chicken, they have other Peruvian dishes such as the lomo saltado and carne asada. In addition they have quesadillas, burritos, and sandwiches. But for a name like Chicken/El Pollo Rico, you get what it's named for: the chicken! Don't be a chicken about the chicken, check it out!

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    Great chicken at a great price. Friendly staff willing to help. The chickpeas are my favorite side but wife has to have yucca and plantains.

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    Love the service. They are also very nice the food is also amazing! They season their food perfectly and Tthe portions are huge.

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    The chicken was very good. The sides looked and tasted terrible. The Mac and cheese came with a side of hair. Service was lacking.

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    Let me start by saying, I really love this resturant! This is my second time going there, as I went…read morethere last week with friends, and wanted to go again as their menu was extensive! I wanted to wait and give a review after the first time as I hoped it wasn't one of those, ("the first time it was great! The second time...not so much.), let me reassure you that was not the case with Autentico! On my first visit, I had a seafood selection, and it was so fresh and so good! I was also checking out my buddy's chunks of beef that were part of his meal, and wanted that too! He gave me a chunk and it was so tender, juicy and good, I knew on my next visit, I would have to order some form of their steak! The service was spot on, and food order time to table, was exceptional! My next visit came yesterday, and yes I ordered a steak! It was a late Friday afternoon, and even though they were busy with a few large tables of people, service was still outstanding and the food was even better than the first time! If you have read some of my reviews, by the time I think to take pictures, there's not much left to take a picture of! Also, I know some people just take pictures and not much else, and while something can look really good in a photo, you have to dig into it to unearth what's really good about the dish, and everything I have tried at Autentico, was superb! I ordered the NY Strip with fries and instead of the rice that comes with it, I asked if I could substitute veggies for the rice? They said no problem! While the first time I had a couple bottles of their Corona, which was very cold and was also provided with a frosted glass, this time I asked for a Modelo Especial. I was told they had it on tap! Major points, as I love all of Modelo's products especially the stouts! It was just my buddy from work this time and me, and we had such a great meal and the ambiance was awesome! I had joked my first time visiting there while driving in, that there was an Irish resturant right next to it! I mentioned that we should go there after for a couple pints. We never got around to it, as we were too full both times to make it in. But that resturant is in the back of my mind for a future visit! So if you do go to Autentico, you won't be disappointed. It's a great location that's worth the drive, and an exceptional resturant!

    The flavors! amazing. we had their signature bowl with chicken and a side of sweet plantains…read more yummmmmmmmmmmmmm highly recommend!

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    Pisco y Nazca Ceviche Gastrobar

    4.1(354 reviews)
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    Beautiful restaurant with good service…read more Our favorites were: ceviche classic, beef empanadas, fried sushi. Will return to try more dishes.

    BLUF: Ok, after being open 3+ years, one would think that an upscale restaurant would get their act…read morein gear & deliver wonderful service every time, right? Especially at their prices & the hoity toity atmosphere, you'd think they'd also be well-run and reasonably accommodating, eh? Nope. Worth the drive? Not any more. Worth the wait? Definitely not anymore! For as many times as we've frequented Pisco in Reston with a small group, one would think they'd get their seating straightened out. Every time we've attempted to eat here on a reservation, they've had issues. Never set up and ready to seat us. Never prepared upon opening... and it's never busy when they first open which is why we always go early. But, they are NEVER ready to seat us. What's the use of making a reservation a week in advance if you're not going to be ready to seat the party nor accommodate the request? How would you like to find out at the last minute that they're going to split up your party at two different tables on two different sides of the restaurant because they weren't prepared when you gave them a week's notice via reservation? The food isn't that good to have to keep going through the challenge of being seated every time we make a reservation for a group. They're really pricey, too. So, certainly not worth this chronic headache. There are PLENTY of other places in the Town Center or in Herndon/Reston in general where you can get a tasty meal, not drop a day's pay, and have your entire party served well together. The taco joint across the street is definitely a more pleasant experience, for example, and I would certainly recommend bartaco...give them a try instead for a fun environment and some good eats.

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    We have kind of been replaying the hits (doing the famous places i would go back to list) for the…read morelast month or so. Last night the thought, something new is needed. So, we wandered to Mayta's. Wow. 1. Not sure why in 3 years living near Frederick we had not gone before. (my bad) 2. wow The food is simply amazing. Everything from black beans to meat was prepared. The dipping sauces are traditional Peruvian, and were amazing. They are not only on my go back to again list, they are on my new go back to soon list.

    Merely because we watched an old Anthony Bourdain Tv show about Peruvian food, we decided to seek…read moreout and try some. We chose Mayta's largely based on location, being open for lunch and strong online reviews. We were quite happily unsurprised with the quality of its fare and its seeming value. Nestled into a quasi-upscale strip center on the western side of suburban Frederick, Mayta's presents an extensive and diverse menu, with helpful pictures and short narrative descriptions. Food is order-at-the-counter, either off of the lighted overhead menu or standard printed menus. The cuisine for both is the same. For dine-in, which is what we did, one need not pay upon ordering but we did so for our convenience and that of the staff. We both ordered off of the $20 lunch specials menu, for which you get one appetizer, one entree and one soft drink. We found the portions delicious and generous - both of us brought home considerable leftovers for lunch the next day. Each dish was well-seasoned and prepared without being too salty (a too common failing for international cuisine prepared for American consumers. While we also are intrigued by Mayta's neighbors in the strip center, we definitely would come back. There is nothing not to like here.

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