The Chicken Shack [RESTAURANT REVIEW]
The South Bay is long on restaurants that have picturesque ethnic names but don’t reflect the gritty reality. For the most part, this is a good thing. The Baja-style places in our town have palm fronds but not the mice that find this sort of architecture a pleasant home and our Southern roadhouses have air conditioning and an exceedingly low chance of finding stray reptiles in the restrooms. Some local eateries have evocative names but don’t even bother with the décor. An example is The Chicken Shack, a distinctly un-shack like little place on Aviation in Hermosa. The classic southern establishments of this appellation are usually bright, loud dives with the wall patina you only get from years of humidity and deep fat frying, the décor a colorful chaos of local newspaper articles and pictures of favored customers. This Chicken Shack is decidedly upscale, the lighting modern and muted, the paintings on the wall moody and romantic. As for deep-frying, they obviously do have a fryer, because they serve French fries, but the chicken here is cooked on a rotisserie. It’s still home cooking, but home was in Peru, and this fast food has a touch of South American elegance. The menu is…
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