Welcome to Zankou Chicken®Home | What the critics say about us Someone at Zankou Chicken must have been born knowing how to roast. This might be the best roast chicken in town at any price: moist, juicy, and fragrant with garlic-infused marinade. The spit-roasted chickens are superb: golden, crisp skinned and juicy, with developed chicken flavor. -- Jonathon Gold, Los Angeles Times
Their rotisserie chicken is crisp, golden and juicy, served with an addictive white garlic paste. -- Benjamin Epstein, Los Angeles Times
These are fabulously juicy, flavored birds, and the skin is cracker-crisp. -- Max Jacobson, Los Angeles Times
Everybody knows the Zankou roast chicken chain and its powerful garlic sauce.
-- Charles Perry, Los Angeles Times
Zankou Chicken has some of the juiciest, tangiest eat-and-run chicken anywhere. This chain may well serve the best roast chicken in town, with racks of birds slowly turning and heavily spiced with an intense garlic sauce, to eat or take out. There’s also falafel, shawerma, and a selection of salads. Prices are low. You can’t get away from the sauce. That famed Zankou Chicken garlic sauce keeps lovers of the place buzzing. -- Elizabeth Evans, The Orange County Register
To the dickens with Popeye and the Kentucky fried bird. I want my Zankou Chicken. -- Los Angeles Herald Examiner
What makes Zankou Chicken so attractive, so enticing, so delicious is the garlic paste. -- Lory Bedikian, Los Angeles Independent
You’ll be in and out the door before you know it you can’t beat their food and prices a terrific fast-food establishment a great takeout for lunch or dinner... -- Natalie Haughton, Los Angeles Daily News
This may well be the fastest fast-food restaurant in the whole world. -- Merrill Shindler, Los Angeles Daily News
Zankou offers many Middle Eastern specialties, but I am slavishly devoted to the whole chicken, a crispy-skinned roasted bird with meat that falls of the bone. Wrap the meat in warmed pita pockets, slather it with the chain's proprietary garlic sauce (ask for extra), and enjoy. Got breath mints? -- Jean T. Barrett, Westways Magazine
Why roast it yourself when Zankou does it better? ask devotees of these Armenian temples to chicken, homes to the crispiest, most delicious, melt-in-your-mouth poultry with Mediterranean accoutrements and a great garlic sauce that fans crave. The smell alone causes me to salivate. -- Zagat Survey
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