The Best Dishes Eater Editors Ate This Week: October 14 | Eater LA

"After a recent trip to Pico-Union, I’ve been converted to Pollos El Brasero, a notably laid-back spot that’s cooking its chicken over wood fire. The indoor dining room is sparse, with just a few booths along one side of the wall and laminate flooring, but the smell of roasted chicken hangs heavy in the air. The half chicken — enough to feed two — comes with fluffy rice, salty beans, a crisp iceberg salad, and what might be the best aji sauce in town; not even a handful of containers is enough of the aji, which you’ll want to put on everything. My chicken-eating technique involves dumping aji sauce on top of the meat and then individually dunking pieces for an extra coating, and I’m already plotting to get a group together so we can do the whole chicken next time." - Eater Staff