26909 Wed Dec 10 13:06:20 -0800 2003 12 1 San Francisco Bay Area 0 110084 Those roasted chickens at Safeway really scare me. Any suggestions for excellent take out roasted chicken Mid-peninsula?? Wed Dec 10 13:06:20 -0800 2003 0 Dogboy 1 110087 Chicken! Chicken! in Burlingame. Wed Dec 10 13:15:34 -0800 2003 110084 0 svL 2 110088 your original post Link: http://www.chowhound.com/topics/show/23784#91224 Wed Dec 10 13:21:28 -0800 2003 110087 0 vn 3 110147 For the truly adventurous, I got 1/2 a roasted chicken from a guy in front of Chavez meat market on Middlefield just across from Hoover School. You can see the smoke for blocks. $5.00 including beans, hot sauce, and tortillas - provided lunch and dinner but hot sauce IS HOT. Another guy next door was selling chickens, too - looked terrible and he was obnoxious. Wed Dec 10 22:49:35 -0800 2003 110088 0 Greg 4 110158 I was just on Middlefield coming from Menlo Park through Redwood city. I was amazed at the number of taco joints. Any recs? That area puts International in Oakland to shame based on storefront count. Thu Dec 11 01:37:12 -0800 2003 110147 0 Bung 5 110224 Dead bang winner is Gonzalez tacueria on the west side of Middlefield just off of 5th Ave. The goat stew and the fresh tacos are to die for. Fri Dec 12 00:49:58 -0800 2003 110158 0 Greg 6 110401 Muchas Gracias!!! I will give it a try! Sun Dec 14 00:09:29 -0800 2003 110224 0 Bung 2 110125 I second the recommendation for Chicken Chicken. The jerk chicken isn't very good, but the other kind is. I often do the $20 dinner for 4 when I don't feel like cooking. Wed Dec 10 17:48:44 -0800 2003 110087 0 allikator 1 110106 The rotisserie chicken from the chicken truck at the Wednesday morning CSM Farmer's Market is spectacular. Wed Dec 10 15:58:09 -0800 2003 110084 0 kim cooper 1 110176 I've really been happy with the chicken from the Roli Roti trucks that park in local farmers markets and store parking lots in many parts of the Bay Area. They rotisserie roast Fulton Valley chickens that they've coated with a very delicious rub. The chickens I've had have been juicy and not dried out (they claim that if a chicken is 30 minutes off the rotisserie, they save it for charities or food banks) -- very good!! I've gotten my chickens at the Serramonte farmers market on Thursdays, but I've seen the trucks at the Milk Pail in Los Altos on Mondays and they have a calendar that lists many other sites on their website: Link: http://www.roliroti.com/index.html Thu Dec 11 13:47:14 -0800 2003 110084 0 Nancy Berry 2 110263 Inspired by your post, it being Thursday, I went out and got a whole roasted chicken ($10, a bit pricey I thought) from the Roli Tori truck yesterday at Serramonte. It turned out to be quite good, better than most places in SF, and par with Gira Polli's similarly herbed version. However, I still prefer Chicken! Chicken!. Maybe it's that wood fire oven that does the trick. BTW, I thought the Serramonte market (Thusdays 9 am to 1 pm), if yesterday was typical, is very good these days. Last time I was there was about 6 months ago and it's gotten bigger and better, with more variety. I recognized several vendors from the currently-in-hiatus Fillmore market, Noe Valley market, and Alemany market. Prices are somewhat higher than the mentioned markets, but maybe that's because it's not the best season for produce. Fri Dec 12 12:36:47 -0800 2003 110176 0 svL 3 110272 I haven't been to Chicken! Chicken! in years, but I stopped going there because I thought the chickens were overcooked with dry white meat. Based upon your recommendation, however, I'll go back, try them again and report here. Fri Dec 12 14:15:14 -0800 2003 110263 0 Nancy Berry 1 110312 May I suggest the chickens at Andale! in Palo Alto. Wonderful mesquite accents. Fri Dec 12 18:43:47 -0800 2003 110084 0 Ken Hoffman