Mimi J.
Yelp
This place takes the term 'hole in the wall' to a whole new level. First off, it's TINY, holding only four 2-seater and one 4-seater table. There is a television suspended in one corner broadcasting a soccer game in Spanish. It is clean and orderly, but far from fancy.
You order and pay at the counter. There are no printed menus; the menu options are posted on the wall (with pictures). Your options are quite simple, in spite of the fact there are 12 listed combos to choose from. This place serves chicken. Rotisserie chicken, Peruvian rotisserie chicken... so moist and beautifully seasoned it could change your life.
I'm not joking. Basic as it seems, it is life changing fare.
You can order it as a 1/4 chicken, 1/2 chicken, or whole chicken. You can order sides to go with it choosing from fries, salad, beans, rice, or tortillas. The combos are merely suggested combinations of sides.
The people behind the counter were friendly and efficient, taking our order for a whole chicken with rice and beans sides and handing us our sodas (which came in the can with a straw)
They brought out our chicken chopped into fourths on a real heavy duty plastic plate and our large sides in similar bowls with real metal flatware to eat with. They brought out a mysterious white sauce, a nondescript red sauce, and the traditional Peruvian green hot sauce. For those unfamiliar with this magical mystical green sauce, it makes EVERYTHING in life better, just by its mere existence. Dress up everything from plain white rice to chicken to lomo saltado with this spicy little Ambrose from heaven...
But I digress.
The chicken. Oh MYYYYYY, the chicken. The meat falls off the bone, melts in your mouth, and sends your tastebuds into orgasmic ecstasy.
No customer restroom. Trust me, it's a small price to pay to experience this chicken. Or take your order to go and enjoy it where nobody can make you share it.
We only managed to finish half our chicken, and took the rest home to Bakersfield. Even three days later the chicken was still incredibly moist and tasty. The BF says he'd be willing to drive back down to Los Angeles JUST to eat this chicken. I kid you not.
Put Toyita's Chicken on your bucket list. You'll thank me.