Best Wood-fired Rotisserie Chicken

Driven by dreams of the chicken they used to eat every Sunday when they were kids, the Madueño siblings and their cousins came up with a secret recipe and opened their first location in 2016, determined to shine a spotlight on their pollo a la brasa. Whether served with French fries and a salad, sweet potato waffle fries, or onion rings, their chicken is among the best around, inspiring devotion among its fans. At Primos Chicken Bar, everything stays within the family: the big Peruvian family.

This new offering from Chef Mitsuharu Tsumura reinvents the traditional, 100% Peruvian pollo a la brasa. After starting out as a dark kitchen, it now has a popular Miraflores location. The tori—Japanese for “chicken”—can be ordered with fries made from Peruvian potatoes, together with the traditional salad and ají chili sauce, or accompanied by an arroz chaufa, spices, and other Peruvian ingredients. “There are thousands of ways to make a plate of pollo a la brasa,” says Micha, “and we want people to have their chicken just the way they like it.”