Delivery, Dining Out, Dinner, Lunch, Manhattan, Quick Post, Takeout, Upper East Side, YorkvilleKerry Alaric CheeseboroAugust 28, 2010beans, chicken, Delivery, Inca cola, Lunch, Peruvian, rice, roast, soda, ues, Upper East Side, YorkvilleComment

Si, Si!

Pio Pio | 1746 1st Ave. (bet. 90th & 91st Sts.) | 212.426.5800 | www.piopionyc.com

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TODAY WAS A lazy Saturday, and I knew it was going to be the kind of day I would spend catching up on Netflix movies and doing some remedial housecleaning, and when my once-daily hunger struck, I figuratively spun the food roulette and came up with chicken, long overdue in a summer full of pizzas and burgers.

Also overdue was a return to my favorite roast chicken place in the neighborhood, the popular Peruvian joint Pio Pio, so I ordered a quarter of a tasty, juicy, nicely seasoned, and crackly-skinned chicken with a side of aromatic yellow rice and savory red beans. It comes with a bright and kicky herbal sauce, and for 12 bucks, including tip, I got a hot meal—more than I could finish—in quick time.

Soon after, I was sated, grateful for my pajamas' elastic waistband, reading subtitles, and happy. Hear, hear.