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Below is the excerpted text from a review from Leo Weekly
by Robin Garr, October 2010
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Mr. Pollo Restaurant Offers a Simple and Safe Taste of Peru
October 6, 2010
BY Robin Garr
Ahh, the cuisines of Peru. Some of my most memorable food experiences occurred in this hospitable South American land . . .
. . . 15 years later Louisville got its first pollo a la brasa spot, Mr. Pollo, in a bright little blue building on the back of a gritty strip-center parking lot in Hikes Point. I’m ready for it now.
It’s well worth a visit, too. Bigger than it looks from outside, the bright maize-colored room boasts seating for 40, with mural-size pictures of Lima’s cathedral and historic government palace ... and Machu Picchu, of course.
Proprietors Jairzinha Fernandez, who’s from Peru and speaks English very well, and her husband, Mario, who hails from Cuba and owned a Cuban restaurant in Miami, came to Louisville from south Florida three years ago, “looking for a better place to raise our kids,” as she said last month on the LouisvilleHotBytes.com forum. On vacation in Peru, they learned the art of making pollo a la brasa and its fixins.
“In the beginning, we prepared the chicken just for the family and friends, and we saw that everybody loved it, so we thought ... why not for everybody?” she wrote, “and that is how Mr. Pollo [was] born.”
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The preparation, done from scratch with brining, spicing and roasting, takes two-and-a-half hours. Even the spicy-creamy aji sauces boast more than 10 ingredients, she said.
The menu is about as simple as it gets: Chicken, roasted Peruvian-style or breaded-and-fried à la gringo, comes in combo with fries and salad or Cuban black beans and rice, and costs $6.99 for a fourth of a chicken, or up to $19.99 for the whole bird.
Service is quick and friendly, and the fare was fine. The pollos a la brasa were rather small, but their flavor was large and mildly spicy, with tender skin and herb-infused meat. The black beans were savory and rich, swimming in a dark potlikker that made a tasty vehicle for the perfect, fluffy white rice. Fries were institutional but freshly fried, crisp and grease-free. The salad was fresh. Everything was served in disposable tableware, and my only complaint — a mighty small one — is that it was tough to dissect a moist chicken with lightweight plastic flatware on a Styrofoam plate.
Two quarter-chicken portions and fresh-brewed iced tea were an affordable $14.82.
Mr. Pollo
3606 Klondike Lane
Louisville, KY 40218
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Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11:00 am - 9:00 PM
Sunday Noon - 8 PM Closed Monday
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