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.
Review Source: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. Â 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 Â 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. Â 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!
Review Source:This was my go-to chicken place back when it was on Lincoln. Â Then one day, it was gone. Â Boo. Â Fast forward a few years -- I'm watching the Palestinian chicken episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm", and somewhere in the dark recesses of my brain the scene of Larry chomping on a delicious roasted chicken leg reminded me of the long-lost chicken place on Lincoln which I vaguely remembered as being called Pollo something or another having to do with flying. Â A quick search on Google turned up the "Volador" part of the name as well as the new location, and boom 20 minutes later I'm ripping into a yummy chicken leg (must be dark meat!) with a spicy tangy cilantro sauce accompanied by rice & beans and potato of your choice. Â Thanks internets! Â Btw, start with the fried Yucca -- it's like french fries only much more flavor. Â All for $5 pre-tip. Â Unbelievable.
Review Source:I live about two blocks from this place, but never ended up visiting. But after it caught my eye for the millionth time a few days ago, and seeing good reviews on yelp, I vowed to check it out. So, one rainy Sunday evening I made the venture to Flying Chicken.
The menu is not extensive, but it is comprehensive: Seafood, Chicken, Beef. The appetizers include tasty sounding items like corn cakes and empanadas. There are a few soups, and a variety of fresh juice type drinks (I didn't try one but I saw one being made and it looked quite good). I decided to try the half chicken with fried potatoes to go.
As I waited, I noticed the somewhat bare decor, occasionally spotted with Columbian posters and little wall hangings in Spanish. A single family enjoyed their meal with a side of good conversation, giving the place a sense of warmth. They ordered what I believe were the empanadas, which looked delicious.
After only 10 minutes or so, I got my food, paid, and left. The total came to about $7. Arriving home, I was pleased with the amount of food - no scrawny little chickens here! The potatoes consisted of two big hunks (a full quarter of a potato each) lightly fried. I usually wouldn't like this as I'm not a fan of steak fries, etc, but these were nothing like I expected. They were seasoned and cooked to absolute perfection.The chicken itself is also great. The chicken skin is loaded with incredible flavor, and the meat itself is moist and tasty. It was served with a cilantro sauce that complimented the chicken well. I didn't finish all my chicken, so I plan on using the rest of the meat to make chicken salad tomorrow.
Overall, for the price and the quality of the food this place is top notch. I am definitely going to be back to try some of their other menu items, especially the empanadas.
Hi, I'm Jackie, and I'm all about VALUE! And I Iove the $4.99 roast chicken deal here. You get a choice of white or dark, 1/4 chicken, a serving of rice, cooked brown beans, and your choice of potato or plantain. I chose the plantain, which was perfect. Solid and just sweet and ripe enough, and not soggy/greasy/sweet, as is often the case. Their salsa verde, as best I can tell, is made of cilantro, onions, parsley and jalapeno. And it is not oil based, but perhaps water/lime based. It's a wonderful accompaniment to the fresh, delicious chicken, the sweet plantains, and the earthy brown beans. Everything is nicely complimentary, and nicely presented, which one would not expect for $4.99. Clean, well-lit and friendly, too. Fast service. Better than fast food. I'll be back.
Review Source:soooo... my basis of comparison for columbian rotisserie chicken is brasa roja. i am here to tell you that this ain't no brasa roja.
our neighborhood has recently been bombarded with rotisserie chicken. i wanted to give the competitors a chance. i really did, but you're not starting off on a good foot when you run out of chicken. 7pm on a thursday and they have 1/4 of a chicken left. that's it! that's all the chicken in the entire place! what?!? your name is the 'flying chicken' and you have no chicken?!? of course we ordered it; and while it was the highlight of the meal, it was a bit dry and the seasoning was underwhelming. this was not orgasmic, mind blowing, "how the hell have i never tasted chicken like this?" chicken.
to fill the void in our stomachs due to lack of chicken, we ordered the "columbian mountain" platter which consisted of chicharon, flank steak, sausage, rice, beans, plantains and an arepa. it was a LOT of food. the problem? none of it was all that great. the sausage and arepa were a bit dry and the flank steak was too chewy. i'll give them props on the beans and plantains, which i thought were pretty tasty. they also serve inca kola which is pretty rad.
with comprable prices and a location just down the street, i think i'll be back at brasa roja for my rotisserie chicken needs.
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