El Rey Del Pollo Santa Fe — Restaurant in Santa Fe

If you're on this busy stretch of Airport Road, and have a hankering for delicious made-to-order Mexican food, stop on in and have a look at their menu. Right away, you will be welcomed with the aroma of Roast Chicken, their specialty.

If you want a whole roast chicken, or a half roast chicken, you will want to call or visit ahead of time. It takes ~45 minutes for the half/whole chicken to roast to perfection after you order it.

But, don't be deterred if you aim for something quicker (and just as tasty). El Rey Del Pollo have an entire menu of family-friendly favorites that are cooked to order.

At the time of this writing, all food orders are "takeout only", in response to precautions imposed on all New Mexico restaurants. The good people of El Rey Del Pollo continue to make their delicious food available, while being mindful of COVID-safe practices. They deserve your business, and you deserve a taste of EL...

This place has the best pollo assado. Grilled/roasted (however they cook it). The chicken was fully cooked but not dry. The seasonings were enough that you could eat it without needing to add sauces or salt for it to taste amazing. Meat had the perfect smokey flavor. This place doesn't look like much, but was my favorite food of my trip to Santa Fe. If I am ever in Santa Fe I will definitely be back for more.

FYI- I am not great with Spanish and the lady taking orders spoke primarily Spanish. If you don't understand Spanish it might be a bit difficult to get questions answered, but if you have to, you could point at the...

We run an auto shop down the street, and while customers are waiting I do not hesitate to send them down to El Rey Del Pollo for an inhumanly good chicken burrito - served with beans, actual avocado and proper good tomatoes. Flautas served fresh and without stale ends, pollo entero party platters for dinner, and the world's most ridiculously spicy salsa rojo. No joke, this stuff has to be diluted with other Mexican restaurants' salsa so you don't have to spend the whole time crying like when Mufasa died. It's like, past Thai hot. It is an experience.

If you get one thing here, try the chicken burrito. They aren't...