Pollo Mex

Genuinely a little hole in the wall chicken place attached to a small grocery store in a random neighborhood, but it has the best charcoal chicken I have ever tasted. The prices are unbelievable and it comes with salsa, tortillas, beans, rice, and grilled onions and chiles. Cannot be beat

I hesitate to try this place because there was barely any yelp reviews. But I'm glad I did the food was excellent budget friendly and quantity of the food was huge for the money. I paid $9.10 for half chicken rice and beans with a huge portion of that had a grills onion jalapeño and some salsa with that but I can easily make three meals out of this. I took a bunch of pictures so you can see what type of food they serve and hopefully you give this place a chance too! We ll be back! Neighborhood wasn't so great but that is where all the good hidden quality food is.

Authentic, legit, good pollo asado. The a la diabla marinate is not for the faint of heart, you really have to like hot spicy food. Its my favorite.

Menu only allows you to order 1/2 or whole chicken. That's it!!!Half chicken combination plate came with 2 chicken wings, one thigh and one drumstick. No breast which is why they won't be receiving the perfect 5-star rating from me just yet.Also included was a large serving of beans and rice, 6 warm tortillas, grilled onions and one spicy green serrano chili that had been properly sweated+charred. They had 4 or 5 different options on how you wanted the chicken prepared but I went with the marinated which was delicious. The marinade was thick and spicy and reminded me a of a light mole sauce.The chicken was previously cooked and might have been cooked hours ago, but yet still somehow took over 20 minutes to be bagged up so that I could be on my way.Located in a sketchy bodega market on the corner of 38th street and National Ave which I would still call as being in Shelltown neighborhood. Not to discourage anyone from visiting but lots of local borrachos, panhandlers, and gangstas hang around and meet up and wheel and deal near the water vending machines. Would gladly come back but will be requesting at least one piece of breast in the 1/2 order of chicken. Afterall, I did order a 1/2 bird and not just 4 pieces from a bird.

I found this place completely by accident driving from National City to Downtown. I wasn't in a hurry and I was keeping one eye open for a Starbucks, but I had my window rolled down and the aroma from grill made me hit a u-turn.Even though I had just come from lunch, I decided I had to get some chicken to go for dinner. I got a whole chicken (chopped up), beans, tortillas and sauces (red & green) and rice. I simply couldn't take the smells wafting out of the container so I sneaked some chicken while driving to DT. It was a great deal of will power that kept me from eating the whole container.This is great, homemade food; some of the best grilled chicken I've ever had.

This place is outside of a little grocery store.This is the hood but believe me I would be much more afraid of being in Chicago than this place. You will see families come in here with kids.Maybe at night there may be an issue but even then I think you will be fine.It is an outside grill a real bare bones type of place.You go inside and order your food and then get two tickets.You give one to the cook outside and then you can wait at the tables outside.When he brings your food you give him the other ticket.This place is more of a takeout place but it does have about 5 or 6 tables outside that are the concrete kind with tiles on top along with the concrete seats.They cook their meat with mesquite charcoal and grill it.No bbq here.I shared a 1/2 chicken and 1/2 ribs for 15 dollars. You also get a quart of rice and beans too. I went into the grocery store and got a few drinks.The food can have bbq sauce, marinated or I think plain.I chose the marinated which is the most popular choice.The ribs are not spare ribs or baby backs they are more like country style ribs really kind of a weird cut of rib.The marinade is good with an achiote flavor and not spicy hot just very flavorful.They give you two sauces for it. A green one and an orange one. The green one is not spicy or hot at all, the orange one has a definite bite to it.There isn't a ton of meat on the ribs and they are not really bbq they are grilled so they are a little tough.Very flavorful because of the marinade but I like my ribs more tender. I lot of people will like these ribs though.The chicken I had marinated also and it was really good also. Of course it is just slightly overcooked but the marinade saves it. Really a good flavor better than just about any marinade you can find for grilled mexican chicken.Again when you are buying grilled anything or bbq anything if you can get it when it comes off the grill you are getting the freshest stuff.I think it is usually best to get to these places when they just open.The problem with this place is I have no clue when they start cooking.I think they come when they want to!Give this place a try though it blows away pollo loco by a billion times and it is super cheap.

I love this joint- I crave their ribs with their hot salsa! I usually call in the order and then pick it up since they do take a little long. Very authentic Mexican BBQ joint.

One of the best BBQ places in sam diego good prices amazing staff an management, it's a must try place!!!!!!!

Disappointed. Over chargers. Than act like there right. Got charged almost double the price noway there's that much taxes family meal special is a full chicken and full rack of ribs with beans and rice for around 35 maybe 40 that's after taxes.... Got maybe 10 dollars of snacks than I look at how much I was charged...75$ that's not right there's like a 10 maybe 20 dollar differences between what I was charged and what is POSTED on there boardFYI toughest ribs I've bittin chewy and stretchy Chickens good. I guess

So slow, the lady handed our order to a different person, this happened about two times. I would give it no stars if possible. Save your time and go to a real taco shop.