L.A.'s best rotisserie chicken may be at this former gas station in Pasadena
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- On a Saturday night, the parking lot at Loli Farms in Pasadena is a maze of cars.
- The restaurant is a temple to pollo a la brasa, the rotisserie chickens found at pollerías all over Peru.
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On a Saturday night, the parking lot at Loli Farms in Pasadena is a maze of cars. People triple park along the entrance to the former gas station. Someone blocks one of the driveways. Cars are left unmanned, hazard lights blinking while their owners rush in to retrieve takeout orders. Others simply lock their doors and head inside, praying they finish cleaning their chicken bones before the people they blocked in. The chicken here is worth the risk.
The restaurant is a temple to pollo a la brasa, the rotisserie chickens found at pollerías all over Peru. For decades, Pollo a la Brasa was the king of the genre in Los Angeles. Its parking lot at the corner of Western Avenue and 8th Street in Koreatown equally hellish. Maybe even more so. And the dining room sometimes so full of smoke, your eyes burn. But people come in droves. Tourists, policemen, students and your great aunt who lives in Hancock Park who heard that Nancy Silverton is a fan.