El Pollo Rey
1188 Broadway Ave, Seaside
(831) 717-4744
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This place rocks, I’d eat here multiple times a week if I could.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Half Chicken Combo
Very good chicken and a reasonable price for what you get ! Love their chicken burritos. Definitely recommend if you are in the area.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Grilled Chicken, Chicken Burrito, Beans
A great style of mexican food. Perfect if you like burritos, tacos, and grilled chicken.
The food taste fresh and has great flavor.
Both salsa have a mild amount of spice.
Very spicy for novice spicy lovers.
Also ordered extra grilled serrano peppers (thankfully they are fresh, not pickled).
The elote was a unexpected treat. Very traditional. They allowed a custom order with no mayo.
Very reasonable on pricing. Lunch for us was about $20 + $5 tip
Definitely a gem in the area
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
The best chicken around the area not going to lie . I wish I knew sooner about this place
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
First time here so we ordered a lot of food so we could taste. The carne asada tacos were my least favorite. Tortillas were too dense and did not care for the guac on top. Carne asada was good, plentiful and lean. Then we tried the wings, half mango habenero and half dry rubbed. Delicious, spicy and lots of meat on them.. I could see ordering a bunch for a football game. Then we ordered their #4 half chicken. OMG, that was the win of the night! It had that open flame flavour and wow was it moist and delicious. I know I'm going to be thinking about that chicken when I'm in the area. Great place, all in all. You order at the counter and they bring it to you. Was very busy when we went but thankfully they had one table left. I'm excited to go back and try more things! Excellent!!!
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
Recommended dishes: Half Chicken Combo
I have never dined in at the restaurant, but I have been a regular take-out customer for about three years. My family and I have enjoyed their food at least once a week. Over time, I noticed the prices increased, but the quality of the food remained good, so it felt justified.
Unfortunately, our most recent order was very disappointing. I ordered a whole chicken, but what I received looked like scraps with very little meat. The quality was poor. The frijoles were very bland, the juice tasted watered down, and the guacamole was poorly made. Considering the price, the overall quality of the meal was unacceptable.
Sadly, after this experience, we will not be ordering from them again.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 1
Service: 3
this Sinaloa style restaurant is really good, roasted chicken and real carne asada cooked in a charcoal grill, probably the only place on Seaside where they do it, the taste and smell is a little trip to Mazatlan, everything is good, try the asada burrito is the best with grilled onion and Serrano on the side, prices are reasonable, they have to go service as well as sitting area, try them you will love the food.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 4
Recommended dishes: Grilled Chicken, Regular Burrito, Chicken Burrito, Grilled Onions
Ordered Door Dash - this is the most dry burrito with steak I have had ever. The steak texture feels like what it seems to eat wood chips.
It's not a super burrito. Maybe just a bad day for the restaurant but if I was in the restaurant I would send it back.
Food: 1
Service: 1
Super authentic restaurant for amazing-smelling grill, roasting chilies, onions, chicken and carne asada.
Expectations: 5 stars
Chicken: may be 4-5 stars
My personal service experience and carne asada experience: 3 stars
Around 4 pm I walked in and waves of amazing roasting chilies and onions came my way.
There were many half chickens roasting and looking really great.
Prices for burritos look very fair, so when it came time to order the combo meal, my expectations were it would be a value.
I ordered carne asada (1lb), and it came with beans, rice, tortillas roasted onions and chilies with a few small containers of 2 different salsas. $32.99! The counter person advised I order an additional pound if eating for two.
The carne asada was inedible in parts. Much of it was incredibly difficult to pull apart, some of the fat being too tough and hard to even cut or chew.
The beans and rice were tasty, as were the roasted chilies and onions.
I cannot imagine how, though, the meal combo and extra 1lb of extraordinarily tough carne asada could cost over $70.
Additionally, I added a tip. Unfortunately, when I came back in to pick up my order that was on the counter, the lady that rang me up was gone and another lady said she would be with me and took a while to return. She ended up unpacking my whole order, went through it, and repacked it before she gave it back to me. She said she didn’t know what was in it or if it was mine and I showed her my receipt.
So, I would definitely never have tipped for such an experience.
I would think about returning for a chicken burrito- but NO combo meals and NO carne asada.
Atmosphere: 3
Food: 2
Service: 3
Spectacular chicken! Staff were very friendly and could accommodate food allergies. Burritos and tacos were both excellent.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
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Really good! Need to come back again to try more of their food.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 4
Service: 5
Amazingg food. Best chicken i have ever had. Torillas and rice and beans are amazing!! Mucho buenoo
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
We wanted food from the neighborhood and found it here. Could watch everything being made in front of us. It felt like we were sitting in a friend's kitchen eating food prepared for us personally. And of course it was delicious.
Hidden gem!!!! If you care about delicious food & love people who know how to cook come here!! We ordered the whole chicken combo & a carne asada plate. Both husband and I ate all of it!! Flavors were delicious along with Amazing beans, salsa, pickled onions, grilled onions & jalapeños and rice and tortillas. Not many places cook meat this well. Wish we lived closer!!!!
The best chicken I have had in a long time. So freakin good
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