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Inka Grill Rotisserie Chicken

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562 W. 19th St. Costa Mesa, CA 92627

949-642-4938 

 

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  • Hot Chicken, Peruvian
    Daily 11am-9pm
    $
  • All Major Credit Cards, cash
    Kid Friendly, Takeout
    Dinner, Lunch
  • Beer/Wine
    Not Necessary
    Lot Available
Description

It's the rotisserie bird's skin you encounter first. With its lipid reserves thoroughly rendered off, it rustles like burnt paper when you take your knife to it. In its dark mahogany depths lurks a concentrated flavor. There's cumin for sure, a staple of Peruvian cooking, and perhaps garlic. But what else? You can't say for sure. Whatever it is, it's a magic rub that enters deep into the meat, which is, by the way, so moist from tail to sternum you can barely tell the dark from the white.







  • 2010 | Best Self-Basting Birds

    You can get a rotisserie chicken just about anywhere these days: Costco, the local supermarket. The basic idea is as universal as chicken itself: Spear the whole hen on a rotating spike, then leave it to roast near a radiating heat source so the subcutaneous fat self-bastes the meat to a juicy sort of succulence. But the Peruvians at Inka Grill Rotisserie Chicken up the ante. To cook the pollo à la brasa, the chefs eschew electricity for a smoldering wood fire. And where there's... More »

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    | Thu, May 20, 2010

    You notice the wood-fire aroma the moment you walk into the new Inka Grill in Costa Mesa. It’s a campfire kind of smell, the sweet scent of carbon feeding the flames that crackle at the back of an open-ended rotisserie oven. You realize the smokin... More »

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