El Rey Del Pollo Santa Fe

Outrageous! If you're a foodie, you just have to go here. Authentic Mexican Grilled Chicken. Soooo good. Come check it out. You won't be disappointed. Prepare to sharpen your Spanish, however. Was a bit hard to communicate. But the food speaks for itself.

Gluten free except for the flour tortillas they don't make in-house (purchased elsewhere.) Friend confirmed by asking in Spanish they don't use wheat in anything at all. AMAZING FLAVORS!

Flautas were Perfecto. Really good food and nice people so it's a good combo.

We run an auto shop down the street, and while customers are waiting I do not hesitate to send them down to El Rey Del Pollo for an inhumanly good chicken burrito - served with beans, actual avocado and proper good tomatoes. Flautas served fresh and without stale ends, pollo entero party platters for dinner, and the world's most ridiculously spicy salsa rojo. No joke, this stuff has to be diluted with other Mexican restaurants' salsa so you don't have to spend the whole time crying like when Mufasa died. It's like, past Thai hot. It is an experience.

If you get one thing here, try the chicken burrito. They aren't messing around.

This place has the best pollo assado. Grilled/roasted (however they cook it). The chicken was fully cooked but not dry. The seasonings were enough that you could eat it without needing to add sauces or salt for it to taste amazing. Meat had the perfect smokey flavor. This place doesn't look like much, but was my favorite food of my trip to Santa Fe. If I am ever in Santa Fe I will definitely be back for more.

FYI- I am not great with Spanish and the lady taking orders spoke primarily Spanish. If you don't understand Spanish it might be a bit difficult to get questions answered, but if you have to, you could point at the menu to order.