i've been here so many times in my life, i have been going to this restaurant for almost 12 years, but last time i went it was a total rip off, everyone please look out when you sign your receipt!! please do not leave blank the tip area otherwise they will rip you off!! and enter the amount they want!! very good food but they will get as much tip as they can!!!!!! horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible, rip off, rip off, rip off, rip off, rip off!!
Review Source:So far La Brasa Roja is our favorite roast chicken in the city and this location is the best of the LBR's. Stop in with $15 in hand and you can walk out with the best marinaded roasted chicken with  sides (roasted potatoes and plantains) and grab a couple of empanadas to boot. I guarantee this will be one of the best $15 meals you can get that easily feeds a family of 3 to 4. Yes, you can eat here, but the few minutes of rest the chicken gets on the ride home only enriches the flavor of the meat.
Review Source:Leave the Starbucks prices at the door and enjoy a charcoal fired rotisserie chicken for a mere $ 10 bucks... for the whole chicken?! Pure Colombian treat. Side dishes are a must. The plantains. The black beans. The carne asada looks fanastic too but so far still stuck on the chicken. It's been a month since I went and I still remember their seasoning. Hint: The best when right off the grill but must wait 30mins. Worth the wait.
Review Source:I love this place! I must admit that the first time I was here, the place looked sketchy. My friend and I still ate here and it was suprisingly good. We ordered the half chicken and half steak dinner. When our plate came, I saw that the chicken was white meat and I prayed that it was not dry. The chicken was surprisingly tender and well marinated! The steak was juicy and you must try the green sauce that they put on the table right when you sit down. It goes well with the chicken and steak! It was a good portion for the both of us and we finished everything because it was so good.
This place is very affordable and portions are not bad for the price.
They also have a cheap lunch special!
Lastly, this place is BYOB and I didn't realize it till the last time i was here.
This place is ridiculously delicious. Â I live not even a block away and I'm SO glad because I'll be frequenting this place often. Â
To be honest, I wasn't crazy about any of the sides that we got with the meal. Â The beans were meh, the plantains, were, like whatever, but the CHICKEN...OMG...the CHICKEN. Â
Whatever seasonings that they use on the chicken are simply delicious and it's grilled, probably all day which gives it a delicious smoky flavor. Â Maybe I'll check out some other stuff on the menu, but probably not. Â The chicken is just where it's at. Â Run, don't walk to this place. Â You won't go wrong!
This place is amazing. It's a little BYOB that serves quality food. Furthermore, Brasa Roja is very affordable. You can get a whole chicken with 3 sides for 10 dollars! One plate can feed you for days.
Very, very relaxed atmosphere and appears to be family owned. Its never really packed, so seating is never a problem.
I've tried the rotisserie chicken and creole chicken - both savory and delish in their own way. I would highly recommend this place if you just want to relax and unwind. My boyfriend and I ordered an appetizer and two dinner plates and it was under 30 dollars. You just can't beat that!
Go there! :)
Brasa Roja has a fairly large menu, so my 5-star review is based on just a few dishes -- the whole roasted chicken and the steak.
Sweet and simple: that is one tasty bird. Inexpensive, comes with nice sides, and the green sauce they provide is delicious.
This is the only Colombian-style chicken place I go to anymore. Great stuff.
I've been living next to this place for as long as I can remember, but I only stepped in the first time a few months ago. Â I was sad that this has been here for so long and I'd never eaten her, but glad I finally did!
Two words to describe this place: CHEAP and YUMMY. Â What more can you ask for? You can get a whole roasted chicken, plus sides, for $10. Â Since a few months ago, I've spent many an afternoon greasing up my fingers and happily unbuttoning my pants. Â The garlic chicken is also fantastic---it's served on a sizzling platter. Â It's very good value for what you get and what you pay.
I also like the ambience here--it's not too dive-y, like Mexican taquerias or some other Latin American places can be. Â It's a casual restaurant, and the service is good.
Come here! (Especially if you live nearby!)
Love their rotisserie chicken, cooked over real wood charcoal.
A whole chicken with potatoes, plantain and corn cake comes out to $9.99.
So inexpensive and so tasty.
I have only gotten take out from here, but its not a divey looking joint so eventually I will stop for lunch and try something else from their menu.
Awesomeszzzzzzz.
My girlfriend told me she wanted to go here because someone at work reheated their leftovers and it smelled so amazing she needed to go to there. I've been to the one on Elston and Irving and the menu appears to be the same at both places.
They sell both half ($7.99) and whole roasted ($9.99) chicken but just get the whole goddamn thing because you will want to eat that thing for days. The longer you can delay this chicken meal running out, the better.
I got the garlic chicken, which was also incredible. Thinly pounded chicken that's coated in a garlic paste and charcoal grilled. It comes on a sizzling wooden platter with a bunch of other amazing sides. I think that was $13.
Empanadas are $1 and amazing.
I think it's BYOB.
I love this place.
Tried this place for the first time last night based off yelp reviews and its location and very pleased. Â I loved the fact the chicken was cooked over the open flame and you could see it cooking at the front of the location. Â
I placed the order for pick up and arrived within minutes and had a very short wait (less than 3 minutes). Â Fast! Â One note, I did have to wait for someone else to take my order over the phone as English was a barrier.
I had the garlic chicken breast, which was really good. Â It was more $$ than the whole chicken, but I liked not having the bones and not a dark meat person. Â The chicken was not a "breast" but rather cut up and some slices/chunks. Â Very tasty and smelled great. Â Also order the whole chicken for someone else and they seemed to like and commented it was alot of chicken. :) Â
Good food and reasonable price, will go back!
Best chicken of my entire life. BEST. Where else can three people eat until they are physically incapable of continuing for less than $20 total? The chicken was amazing, the plantains were amazing, and might I recommend the meat turnovers. Also, the food comes out hot in less than 5 minutes. You order it and BAM, it's there.
Review Source:La Brasa Roja is located is on the north side of Chicago. Street parking shouldn't be much of a problem because most of the immediate area is made up of small businesses and homes. Sitting smack dab on the corner, the place is hard to miss. Although aesthetically you may not be wowed, you will be by the food. The prices are more than fair considering their sizes and portions and that makes it a great deal. Perhaps the only real quirk that I have is that the menu is in Spanish. So this can make it a bit difficult to navigate around it if you don't read Spanish. Â But overall La Brasa Roja is simple, cheap, and delicious, what more could one want?
Review Source:I passed by Brasa Roja many times. I thought Colombian food was great because I  experienced dining in at Las tablas Colombian steak house i had a fantastic experience at the Lincoln location the Irving location had great food but the service wasn't as good well to sum it up Brasa Roja sucks the meat is cheap. Brasa Roja only has one sever she is slow, and rude. Outside and  inside it isn't decorated well. I wont be coming to La Brasa Roja anymore.
Review Source:Here is a very brief list of things you can get for $10:
1. 10 large Cokes from McDonalds.
2. Two feet of sandwiches from Subway.
3. 5 Double Stacks from Wendys.
or
A WHOLE FREAKING CHICKEN, POTATOES, A CORN CAKE AND A FRIED ASS PLANTAIN.
So I just moved back to Chicago, my city of choice. And lo and behold down the street is Brasa Roja, which loosely translates to HOLY SHIT BALLS THIS PLACE IS AMAZING. For $10 (plus $2 for an extra corn cake and cheese) we got an entire chicken with enough accouterments to satisfy anyone and it was fresh, delicious and fast. You pay, they give you a receipt to take to the chicken dude in front and you leave with a motherfucking awesome chicken in a styrofoam box. It's really that easy.
The chicken was a little dry, altho considering it's roasted that's not unexpected. Still, the food is amazing, fast and so, so good. I see getting a lot of chicken from Brasa Roja. A dinner most fowl never tasted so fucking good.
Hands down the best roast chicken I've ever had in my life. I used to live down the block from this place, and the smell alone is enough to give it a good review.
I've been here countless times, I always get the chicken, and the future wife gets some sort of meat dish, whether it's short ribs, flank steak, or ny strip. Each entree comes with plenty of sides, vegetables, potatoes, rice, and plantains, but the secret is the green tomatillo sauce which you pour over the rice. Unfortunately it's been years since we've been there, because we moved to the west coast, but my future wife still talks about it.
Honestly, I'm yelping about it right now, because I had a dream about the chicken last night, and so will you
We came for lunch one day and we walked into a busy restaurant with delicious looking chicken roasting near the window. We ordered
roasted chicken - ok, not as flavorful or crispy as i imagined
roasted rabbit - ok, needed more meat and flavor!
empanadas - really crispy skin
roasted vegetables - flavorless and dry
fried plantain - too fried
in general the food was good, but not as good as i imagined it to be. Needs more salt and flavor!
La Brasa Roja never disappoints! Quite the opposite in fact. You get a lot of really great food for an extremely reasonable price.
The two things I get the most are the half-chicken (comes with a rice cake, plantain, boiled potatoes) or the steak and chicken combo plate (with yucca fries, plantain, boiled potatoes, and a little chimichurri on the side). Everything is absolutely delicious. Their chicken is the best I've ever had, hands down.
The chicken is tender and moist. Whatever they're rubbing on it before they roast it is what I'd like to refer to as "chicken-crack" because, yuh-huh, it's just that good. You can find me at the La Brasa Roja sucking on the chicken skin every time I eat there. I don't care if this practice is repulsive to others. When I am eating this chicken, nothing else really matters.
The smell is a big part of what draws me to this restaurant. When they're a cookin', the smell beckons me from a block away and I know, at that moment, that I need it. I am and always will be a die hard fan of La Brasa Roja. Go! SOON!
Too...stuffed...too...type....
Amazingness. Â The fact that this place has been down the street from me and I've never checked it out is incredible....although when considering the stellar yumminess (and ridiculous cheapness) of their empanadas my waistline is happier! Â Honest. Â I was stuffed after 2 of them and STILL had to tackle part of the mouth watering half chicken (whatever they're seasoning these chickens with? muchas gracias!) potatoes, plantain, and arepa that came with generous green sauce. Â
Needless to say I was glad I had gotten take out so I could change into comfy sweats and collapse on the couch!
2nd time around for cinco de Mayo.. and just the perfect meal to wind down the day!
Invited a friend (Chef & professor at Culinary Institute) who's been itching to try out the spot & he liked it a lot!
The Chicken and Steak Combo. Can of Diet Coke.
With a side of Extra extra garlic paste.
This time around, I managed to finish 85% of plate. I was prepping my stomach for this feast.
Sigh... their chicken is seriously so tender, and I really enjoy that charcoal grilled taste.
Service was friendly and I ordered another chicken and steak combo to go, which came out in a jiffy. It's like they knew I was going to order another meal! lol
Next time, I swear.. I'll try something else.
No no... I'll get the chicken and steak combo with a side of empanadas.
Yea.. that sounds divine.
How is this not 5 stars I have no idea.
This place is amazing for the value I go here for lunch a couple times a week and they have an amazing quarter chicken special with rice and beans for under 5 bucks! They even have a rib eye special for the same price and the rib eye they give you is a good size. The rice is very tasty along with the beans but the chicken tastes amazing and you can really taste the smokey taste from the rotisserie fire as they use a combination of coals and wood to cook the chicken. I have yet to go back for dinner but I plan too soon. I mean where else can you get rotisserie rabbit?
My husband and I went and got a whole roasted chicken which comes with plantains and potatoes to go. Â The whole order was around $10.86 or something w/tax. Â We got it home and it looked/smelled/tasted so good we literally inhaled it. Â I mean we started eating it before even sitting down. Â We have our own BBQ sauce at home and had some of that w/the chicken. Â The potatoes were roasted or something and I didn't think I would like them but they were mild and satisfying and I felt they went well w/the meal. Â It made me realize I never have roasted potatoes these days. Â The plantain was enormous and sweet -we were both loving it. Â
My only qualm is that their to-go packaging is styrofoam which I know is common, but technically you are not supposed to eat hot food from styrofoam (and definitely not hot liquids) as it can release toxins. Â So, maybe next time I'll ask them to put it into my own container, or maybe I'll just be in denial and enjoy the food. Â We will for sure be back. Â It's really a crazy value and very satisfying.
As one reviewer mentioned it is a little confusing going in to order. Â You actually have to walk all the way back. Â There's a cash register and also a kitchen window in back. Â A waitress was by the cash register so I paid w/her, she gave me a receipt to bring up front, then I watched them chop up my chicken and assemble my order in seconds. Â That looked cool.
I work about a block away from here, and we eat here frequently. Â I always get the chicken lunch special. Â The total with tax is like $5.??. Â All I know is, it's a pretty good deal for the amount of food you get. Â You get two huge pieces of chicken, salad, rice, and beans. Â For $.50 more you can get an entire pack of heated tortillas. Â This cannot be beat. Â OMG, the chicken is so good too. Â It's roasted rotisserie style over hot coals and seasoned to perfection. Â If you haven't tried this place - you are missing out. Â The special also comes with a steak option. Â Instead of chicken you get a big piece of thin sliced steak that is also seasoned.
BTW, don't you dare walk out of there without ordering some of their hot sauce. Â It's made with tomatillos and is just effin' delicious.
Also, I am giving them four stars strictly because they don't speak english in there too well. I mean, I know it's a columbian place, but I want to eat there too, and it's really hard to order sometimes when they don't understand what I'm saying! Â Other than that, the place is fantastic...dining in or taking out.
Was recommended this place by fellow Yelper Jacob J. Went there, and the place was pretty crowded. A nice mom and pop restaurant on a very busy strip of Kedzie. Driving to this place, I recognized a ton of other Yelp winning restaurants...Noon o Kabab, and Al_Khameyieh to name a few. This area is Foodie Galore, cheap, good eats!!!
Ordering is kinda confusing, as you place your order in the back, and not the front, where they have the rotisserie grill being manned by two workers. Was in and out with my 2 quarter chicken orders in less than 15 minutes. By the way, each order, only $4.99 each!!! WOW
The chicken is phenomenally affordable chicken. Tender, sweet, succulent...kinda makes you want to stop reading this review and run there huh? Rice is very nice and fluffy, but flavorful too. Has a nice rich, buttery taste. Yum! Side salad was wilted, probably because it was put in the same box as hot items. Forgiveable. Your prize fighter is in the chicken.
I feel like I am majoring in Comparative Roast Chicken Studies here, or at least Comparative Cheap lunches, having just reviewed Brasa's neighbor Pollo Volador, and trying the $4.95 1/4 chicken special at each location.
Brasa Roja offers no choices with their special. The plate comes with a small piece of thigh and a small drumstick, rice and beans which have been slopped on the plate, and the most anemic, lame excuse for "salad" you've ever seen.  It looks like left-overs from someone else's plate. A few slices of iceberg, a small sliver of tomato, and one slice of cucumber. The brown beans were overly salted and the chicken itself was delicious. I know for $5.00 I shouldn't be so critical, but  for the same price you get much more at Pollo Volador: a choice of white or dark (the white meat choice is a healthy serving), a choice of potato or plantain, and a delicious accompaniment of salsa verde.
I would like to return to Brasa Roja to try their full price dinner menu, because there are many selections of meat, fish and poultry dishes, and the chicken was very good. Skin-eatin' good!
Forget chicken n' waffles. Â I'm eatin' Colombian style - Chicken n' Arepas! Â Jacob J suggested this place, and the rotisserie here is definitely better than Pollo Feliz's chicken in Pilsen. Â
As far as the starches go (arepas, yuca, and baked potato), they were all pretty bland. Â I had to order some rice with the dish.
I've been back here plenty times since my original review. Over the years had times to try their other offerings and here to tell you to stick to what you see, the chicken. I've had the appetizers which aren't a big deal and you might as well save the space for chicken. I've also had the steak and chicken breast, fish, etc.. It's all not comparable to that rotisserie chicken! Peep the photo's, it all looks great but the chicken, the chicken is best!
Again if you speak Spanish the service is that much better. Sadly they don't have a hot hot sauce of their own, they have Verde sauce which is just okay. Being the area that they are located it's easy to walk to a local store and get some hot sauce if you need it.
For more details see my older review.
So, I dine in this restaurant 2 days in a row in an attempt to try their special roasted chicken. Â First attempt, I went with Kevin C. and we were so excited based on all these yelp reviews. Â Unbelievably, they didn't have enough chicken!! Â We were seriously thinking of leaving.....how could a restaurant that specializes in roast chicken run out of it? Â But we decided to stay and try something else. Â We instead ordered their garlic chicken breast and that was pretty amazing. Â Very very good. Â It was grilled and definitely garlic-y with fried plantains (not the sweet kind) and potatoes all around it. Â We also ordered the corn pancake with cheese and that was heavenly....put a dab of some of their mouth-watering green salsa on it and it's perfect. Â The service could have been better though.
Second attempt, I come in with the fiance a couple hours earlier than I did the previous day and lo and behold, I see rows of roasted chicken lined up....mission accomplished! Â I ordered the delicious corn pancake again and the roasted chicken. Â The roasted chicken was pretty big. Â I think that it would be good enough for 3 adults because we had a good amount of leftovers. Â They chop it up for you so it's not hard to get it yourself. Â The chicken was very very good, even better with the green salsa. Â It was very meaty and the skins were amazing! Â The chicken also came with a sweet plantain and a corncake (minus the cheese). Â The total for everything, including tax, was just under $14!
If it wasn't for my friend Yuly's review on this place, I would've paid no mind to ordering from here. I came here with my sister last month and we were floored by their reasonable pricing. 10 dollars for a whole chicken, two small fingerling potatoes, plantains, and corncakes! When you order the chicken, they take it out of the roaster, cut it to pieces and heat it back up on the charcoal grill. Then the place one huge plantain and a corncake in the container and lay the chicken pieces on top of it. They also give you a side of salsa verde (it's very addicting and has the right amount of heat to it).
Seriously, Tamia and her cousins were eating the chicken and rice up like there was no tomorrow. I mean they even asked for second! It beats going to jewel and being charged 6 bucks for their roasted chicken (small and the meat is always on the skimpy side). Also, Tamia and my sister thought their flan was pretty good. Overall, great chicken and very reasonably priced!
For $10, you get a whole chicken and several sides. Â
The restaurant is pretty bare bones but I'm not really going there for the ambiance. Â I'm looking for some tasty chicken and they definitely have that. Â I don't know what combination of spices they use, but the chicken has tons of flavor and isn't dry. Â
One of the interesting things about this place is the girl manning the rotisserie occasionally drags the bag of real charcoals (not the stuff most of us use in our Webers) and will throw them into the oven. Â I guess that's how they get their name.
(Note, I had just returned from dining here when I wrote my original review. Â I felt that I was unfair, and used an unreasonable amount of profanity - even for me. Â I've had some time to reflect and have decided to clean it up a bit. Â In reading, wherever you see the word "pleasant", substitute it with your favorite profane word. Â I recommend one that starts with 'f' and ends with '-ing'). Â
Here you go:
I only give them a whole star only because they didn't physically assault me. Â And Yelp doesn't allow negative stars.
This place pleasant sucks. The waitress is a pleasant dipshit who doesn't have a pleasant clue what to do when people sit at the table. Â Glasses? Â Water? Â What the hell is that?
I was going to try the chicken. Â Guess what? Â They pleasant had only THREE of them and they were selling those to walk-ins before we even got to order! Â Want those pleasant corn pancakes with cheese that everyone's talking about? Â Good luck, they're pleasant out of those, too. Â They have the damned pancakes but they apparently can't pleasant scrape up some pleasant cheese. Â So we're 0 for pleasant two on the food that was recommended.
In the end, it was $8 per person, so that didn't completely suck. Â But McDonald's is only $4 per person and they don't pleasant run out of damned burgers. Â What a pleasant piece of shit restaurant. Â Hope they close soon so something that doesn't suck can take over the space. Â If this place was on fire, I wouldn't pleasant piss on it to put the fire out. Â
On a positive note, the parking was good and there was no corkage fee. Â Though the corkscrew that they have is from the pleasant ice ages.
Eat before you go because they're pleasant out of everything. Â Maybe if they didn't suck so bad they'd make enough pleasant money to air condition the pleasant place in the middle of the damned summer.
This place blows. Â I'd rather pleasant eat a dead man's balls than go here again.
Since my life has just become checking things out that I find on <a href="http://Yelp.com">http://Yelp.com</a> I decided to pick up carryout from La Brasa Roja tonight.
If I just say PERFECT is that enough? This was the best chicken I have ever had. I have driven past La Brasa Roja prob 500 times in the last month and have never even noticed it! Â What is on that chicken? Do they bottle it? Â I bought the full chicken meal, when I brought it home I got a quick "oh, I am not into Columbian Food, what else did you get" from hubby. Then he tasted it and wanted to go back to pick up another!
"So What'cha, What'cha, What'cha Want?"
If I had to guess, I'd say Mike D, Adrock and MCA rolled a fat one and rapped their asses over to La Brasa Roja to indulge in some chicken before they scratched down the lyrics to Finger Lickin' Good.
The birds at LBR are marinated in some crazy Colombian nectar-of-the-Gods and slow-roasted to perfection. Â My mom said, "What do you think they marinate this delicious chicken in and do you think they would give me the recipe?" Â I said, "Mom, there ain't nuthin' in the world that could make chicken taste so good--it's heavenly! Â And, I think they would have to kill you if they told you the secret to their success!" Â
Despite what a lot of foodies think, you don't have to pay and arm & a leg, or sell your one-of-a-kind Mickey Mantle card, nor do you have to promise your first born, to enjoy a fecking delicious meal here in Chick-a-go. Â The proof is in the pudding, kids. Or, in this case, el pollo. Â Sure, this place is the size of a NYC studio, and yeah, the cold air takes y'er breath away when someone opens the door, Â but you can get a 1/2 chicken dinner with all the sides for like $4.95. Â In fact, I think I heard Bob Barker yell out from the kitchen, "Let's make a deal!" Â
If you want some traditional food, ask for el calentado con los heuvos y el carne...or los patacones (fried green plantain cakes) or las empanadas and jugo de lulo con leche (a Colombian fruit made into a juice blended with milk). Â The only thing I was kind of disappointed about were the arepas (Colombian corn cakes and the Colombian version of the Mexican tortilla); I have eaten better hockey pucks with more flavor.
Spanish 101: La Brasa Roja means The Red Coal and is quite apropos when you see how the succulant chicken is prepared.
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