Pollo Volador

Best kept secret in Chicago. Drive up north to Kimball and Belmont and walk into the Flying Chicken...Amazing Colombian food for the best prices in the city. We usually get the quarter chicken with plantains or potatoes with a beef empanada. They make this chimichuri green sauce that literally is crack. So tasty and makes the meal that much better. Service is fantastic also.

My friends and I used to hit up this spot weekly when it was on Lincoln. Now that it has moved a little more west, I can't go as often as I'd like, but I still try to make it there once a month.

1/4 chicken (white or dark), rice, beans and sweet plantains for $4.99? Yes sir! I always order this 1/4 chicken special with 2 beef empanadas. The empanadas are a little different than others since they are made with a cornmeal crust. The beef if shredded, not ground, and mixed with a little bit of potato.  But just a little, there is way more meat than potato.

My food had always been accompanied by a cilantro chimichurri, which goes great with the empanadas and the chicken.

I've eaten at this spot and the owners have always been friendly to me and service was quick. I usually take my food to go and it still tastes great when I get home.

Make sure to bring cash unless you are spending more than $10. Minimum $10  to use your card.

I have never had the chicken yet but the beef empanadas are my latest addiction, I eat em for breakfast as well as dinner, I buy them by the dozen, they are amazing.  I will have to try the chicken nice time I go there, which will will give me a reason to take home another dozen Empanadas!