Rey del Pollo — Restaurant in Pasadena

I'VE BEEN COMING SINCE THEY FIRST OPEND. GOOD FOOD WE BASICALLY TRYED ALMOST EVERYTHING WE HAVE A BIG FAMILY... WE NORMALLY ORDER TO GO SINCE WE ENJOY WATCHING MOVIES WHILE WE EAT... THEY DO HAVE T.V BUT RATHER EAT AT HOME... GREAT SERVICE ALWAYS... FOOD IS ALWAYS HOT NEVER HAD A COMPLAIN ABOUT THE FOOD GOOD PRICE NO CHEAP FOOD AS LIKE ONE GUY COMPLAINED... THEY HAVE A 2 FOR TUESDAY CHICKEN MEAL FOR $13.99. TABLES ARE ALWAYS CLEAN FLOORS ARE KEPT CLEAN ALSO THE MANAGER IS NOT A HIGHSCHOOL KIDDO BUT THERE IS A GREAT KIDDO IN CHARGE SINCE HE'S BEEN WORKING HERE SINCE DAY ONE THESE YOUNG KIDDOS THAT WORK HERE ALL SPEAK PERFECTLY GOOD SPANISH AND ENGLISH... ALL MEALS ARE FRESH. I HATE THE FACT THAT PEOPLE PUT DOWN GREAT DINE INNS BECAUSE OF THEIR BAD DAY. ALWAYS REMEMBER TO TIP THEIR GREAT SERVICE'S AND I LITERALLY COME ONCE A...

The family meal deal was of ok price, much cheaper than church’s and other big name chicken chains. ($40 vs $60 on average).

The beans had good flavor but any mexican that has eaten beans for years can tell you they were not fully cooked, which really irked me.

Rice had decent flavor, light coloring.

The chicken was your standard fare barbecued chicken with no flavor past the surface. I guess a lot of people find that ok, but if you marinate chicken overnight to get a flavor that penetrates meat all the way through, you wouldnt eat bbq’d chicken the same ever again.

Lady at the register was very nice.

Food came out lightning fast it was shocking.

All in all, it was alright. Would have given it 3 stars but the speed of the food gave...

This place used to be good when we went years ago. Well we decided to go again since we haven’t been in years. The lady gave us a price but when we decided to eat there she said the price went up cause they charged extra to eat there. I asked why was that and she said well they had to wash dishes and clean the table and so on I said ok that was fine. It was a $6 extra charge. Anyway the chicken did have a good flavor until you got past the skin lol underneath it, it was so dry and bland! The beans tasted like when they start burning in the pot and when you walked to the back to the restroom it smelled so bad, makes you not want to eat there with how bad it was. I don’t know what happened cause the place used to be really...