Zankou Chicken is a family owned chain restaurant based in Southern California offering Middle Eastern food. They have several restaurants in the greater Los Angeles area; Glendale with 2 locations, Van Nuys, Anaheim, Pasadena, Burbank, West Los Angeles, Toluca Lake and Montebello. This is a Zagat rated chain.
For this review I visited their Glendale location. From the decor you could tell they are a chain restaurant but still in its infancy. The decor is still not very corporate/commercial. Their furniture and decor are all mismatched. Ignoring the decor, their food is awesome. I ordered the whole chicken special which came with one rotisserie chicken with sides; a hunnus, pickled turnips, cabbage salad, pita bread and garlic sauce as a dip.
The chicken is very moist and flavorful. The skin is broiled to perfection and very crispy and the meat is very tender and moist. The chicken is comparable to the chicken I had at Juan Pollo but I like Zankou Chicken better as a whole because of their sides. The hummus and pickles turnips are perfect. The turnip is crispy and not very sour and the hummus is perfectly salty, sour and garlicky and not too tangy or tart. I can go without the cabbage salad and the garlic dip is overly sour.
Other items on their menu are shawerma plate (marinated and flame broiled beef), falafel plate, wraps (roasted chicken, shawerma, chicken tarna and falafel), kebab plates (shish kebab, chicken kebab, and lule kebab). There are several salads, tabbouleh, tahini and garden salad. Hummus, mutabbal (grilled eggplant, tahini and olive oil) and basmati rice are the sides.
The service at the location I went for this review can be improved. I waited 30 minutes for my order. For a fast food restaurant, 30 minutes is a bit too long. I would understand if they are a sit-down restaurant. The staff are very friendly though.
The family that owns Zankou Chicken has a family tragic drama of epic proportions. In 2003, the owner shot and killed his sister, shot his mother and he then took his own life in a double-murder suicide. It is believed that the owner was in the late stages of colon and brain cancer which may have affected his mental faculties.
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