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Thanks to both of you! DR, I saw Kenny's driving by it relatively recently so I wasn't sure if it was related or not. Thanks for clarifying that!

I am trying to come up with a comprehensive list of Peruvian Chicken joints in suburban Maryland (not NoVa, not DC, Maryland, folks). I have been browsing the internet looking for as many as I can find and I would appreciate it if folks could confirm names, locations, current existences of this list (see below) as well as any names and addresses of places that I am missing. Ideally I am looking for those places in Montgomery County and Prince George's County, but any Maryland located joint will do. TIA! Wheaton: o Pio Pio (need address) o Super Chicken (need address) o Country Chicken Pollo Sabrosa - Grandview Ave. (need actual address) o Chicken Place - University just east of GA (need actual address) o Crisp & Juicy - Westfield Wheaton Plaza Mall at University and Veir's Mill (need actual address) Four Corners: o Polleria Trujillo - Colesville Rd/29@University (need address) Piney Branch: o La Pollera - 8736 Piney Br. Rd, just S. of university o El Sabroso - Flower and Piney Branch (need actual address) Langley Park/Grennbelt: o Chicken Rico - new strip shop center on University E. of NH (need actual address) o Pollo Casero - SW corner Riggs and University in shopping center (need actual address) o Senor Chicken - NW corner University and NH in big shopping center (need actual address) Rockville o Crisp & Juicy – Next to Penzey’s? (need actual address) o Unknown Name – At 355 & Rt 28 near IHOP – next to a Latin restaurant (need name and address) o El Pollo Primo - (Need Address) o The Nibbler – by MoCo Airpark (Need address) Silver Spring o Crisp & Juicy - East-West Hwy and Colesville Rd. (Need actual address) o Inka Pollo - on Georgia Avenue, in the little strip mall across from the Staples (need actual address) Laurel o Megachicken on Rt 198 near BW Parkway Owings Mills o Que Rico on Reisterstown Road

Nikki needs to go next. Then Spike. They both suck and Nikki's survival to this point has been nothing short of a miracle. Then it gets interesting. And next week it looks like a pastry/baking battle (which I think is a great idea, have they ever done such a battle?) which could provide unexpected results.

You can always pick up a pie from a joint (whose pie you love) that has carry out on the way home.... Couldn't be easier!

So if it's not terribly offensive, is it kind of terribly offensive?

Thank you! Validation and vindication!

Interesting. I am frankly a bit surprised Mark managed to squeak through given the gaffes in his cooking and presentation, but I am glad he did. He deserves to last until the they are down to 6 or 7 I think. And Nikki squeaked through again, too. No surprise there, but also no surprise she was back at the bottom. I hope she or Spike get the axe next episode. Glad to see Ryan go. No loss there. 3 different things to eat, some of which are hard to handle while standing and walking around? I have never tailgated, but anyone could see the folly of that decision...

I never bother to ingest any kind of pre-fab frozen pizza. It's not worth the calories to me. I'm either getting my outside of the home or making my own fresh. Frozen Pizza? Blech!

Back before they limited the number of tables, a group of my wino buddies hit Komi. I think there were 8 or 9 of us split between two adjoining tables. We had an amazing time, but it's too bad we can't do that again.....

I agree. I hate team events, and especially the ones more like catering. Not all restaurants do catering, and you don't need to know how to cater to be a successful 'top' chef. Bah!

What is the big deal dude? Every restaurant has its price. Every restaurant. And on any day. Even The French Laundry. No big deal dude.

I have no tears for Zoi, as I never thought she should be there anyway. But I was really hoping for Nikki or Ryan or Spike to get the axe. Oh well. And sous vide a salmon?I can't even imagine that. But I knew they wouldn't send home any of the guys on that team...yet. Contrary to other opinion, I think it's starting to get interesting. Still 3 people are dead weight, true, but then the gloves will have to come off. And say NO to team elimination challenges! Bah!

Went last night and thought it was good but nothing to rave about. Mussels were very good, the samosa very nice. Even the chicken chettinad was very good (thought the formed shapes of rice seemed odd). But it was nothing that made me swoon or to get overly excited about. Service was good, too. While I would not go out of my way to dine here again, if I was in the mood and in the area, it would not be a bad choice at all.

Larriland Farms when I want to pick them. Otherwise there is a great roadside/farm stand on Old Gunpowder Road in Beltsville just off the Powder Mill Road exit off of I-95 north.

Nods to you good sir.

Manuel was robbed. If his team was going down, it should've been Spike. BAH! That said, Zoi is really to annoy me. And I can't believe that Nikki and Ryan managed to coast through once again.

Mark, I am sure I am missing out...*sometimes*. Most of the time, I am not, I think. But that is just me guessing and assuming so from my own experiences. I often worry about how the wine has been handled with these by the glass pairings to each course I am going to get. How long has the bottle been open? Long enough? Too long? I'm a wine geek, so I like to see the bottle from which I am getting the wine, which is almost *all* cases when I have opted to try wine pairings, is not the case. Most restaurants (not all) just don't do a good job of this. The other issue I have is that often the pours for the by the course pairings are just too big. My wife and I usually split a single 750ml bottle between us for a long dinner. If you add up all of the pours you would get for a multi-course meal, well, it can often be (far?) more than what would amount to a 750ml bottle. That said, I haven't done a wine pairing at Citronelle either. It's been quite a few years since we've been there, Mark (not that we didn't enjoy our experience we loved it! But rather the overall cost of the meal/experience limits this to special occasions only).

Interesting. I wonder what they have to say about the same company's lousy and pathetic sibling, Bottom Dollar.

Hey everyone uses the tools they like and prefer. I don't like how much counter space I'd lose to have a microwave and I so rarely used it anyway it was no big deal to drop it.

We decided to eliminate the microwave from out kitchen three years ago when we remodelded the kitchen. We thought about it for a while and decided that we so rarely used it (softening butter mainly), that it was pointless to have or own one. We have not missed it. Even DURING the remodel, we did not use it once.

I was annoyed by this too. Doofuses!

I generally avoid wines supposedly paired to the menu or paired to what I select from a menu. Why? I generally have had bad experiences with this (notable exception, Babbo, in NYC -- great!). I much prefer to select my own wine or wines from the list. Not only do I enjoy looking for 'easter eggs' but I also like to see how a wine develops over the course of several hours during a fine meal.

Thanks! Expanded Saturday hours would be great!

You don't think the whole block was pre-warned of this? Come on, of course they were.

I hate, hate, hate team episodes. I know they do it because they want to see which chefs have leadership skills and the ability to bring teams together as well as bringing the best out of their teams/staffs, but it gets really tiresome. I DID like the idea of how 'Doorknock Dinners' this episode seemed though in that they went shopping for ingredients from 'normal' people's homes. Any Mr. Bayless was indeed creepy. My wife wondered aloud just how many facelifts he's had already. Erik was weak from episode 1 on. His plating was horrible and his flavors I take it were not good either. And doing pre-cooked corndogs? Why? I am surprised that Zoi survived the cut this past week. Both Ryan and Nikki can expect short shelf lives I think, too. As for those who will go long, I'll go with Andrew, Dale, Richard, Spike and Stephanie and possibly Lisa or Jennifer, too.