Rafa’s Chicken

Small restaurant with 6 tables but they do have a bar eating area w/​stools. Clean, it has 1 his/​her restroom. The establishment is pretty clean. Now the food: I did dine in, I ordered the Half Chicken combo it came with rice & beans. The Chicken was pretty juicy it had a nice seasoned crispy skin. I tasted notes of Caribbean spices Cloves and some other sweeter spice. I would say it pretty good. The rice & beans do need some flavor. I’m a real picky eater so saying the chicken was good is a plus. They need to offer an extra plate or basket to discard the chicken bones.
The Salsa bar had like 12 different salsas from pico de gallo to habanero, jalapeño pickled to a jalapeño cream, & like a chile de arbol. A green roasted chile’ too. This helps with dipping as it will add flavor to the meal. The salsa bar is a FRESH hit.
On street parking with all credit cards accepted. They also do decent take out traffic. It was steady for a Wednesday lunch time review. Its a family establishment with one on one service.

If you’re looking for flavorful, amazing food, then this is the LAST place anyone should go to. Coming from Puerto Rican and Costa Rican background I know what flavor is. The rice smelled amazing, however it tasted weird. Just wrong. The beans were literally rotten. Like when you leave beans in a pot for two days, yeah… that smell XP. The chicken was clearly boiled in just water with little to NO seasoning. And it tasted as if it were boiled in dirty old water. Making the chicken taste like old wet rags. And the Pico de Gallo looked very appetizing and pretty but, as you would have guessed, flavorless. I had to drown my food in hot sauce to cover up the horrific meal. I could NOT bring myself to finish my food and neither could my other THREE family members who joined me. I felt terrible for throwing away food but we just couldn’t get that food down :(
Maybe I just chose the worst day to go to Rafas Chicken, but I am most certainly NOT going there again.

We tried the chicken yesterday and I have to say it was outstanding it was so succulent and juicy with just unbelievable flavor this place will definitely be on my mainstay from now on great for catered parties as well a must try if you’re in the area or not even in the area make a drive you will not be disappointed!

We got a whole chicken dinner which came with rice, fries (we chose instead of beans which I kind of regret after reading these reviews bc the beans sound good! Guess I’ll have to come back), tortillas, salsas, and a liter of RC. The chicken has good flavor, so did the salsas. Good stuff!

I have to agree with Maria Q, the chicken at Rafas is good but not great. In my humble opinion it does need more seaoning, favor or something. However, l love that little salsa bar and the rice and beans are very good. I’ve eaten at this place since the grand opening, moreover, l was looking forward to this place opening because l literally live across the street. I would love to come every week because of the convenience but Rafas is missing something.

Great roasted chicken better than costco n jewel for sure two choices on beans and the rice is typical Mexican rice just ok. Tuesday you get a chicken and a half (roasted) for the price of one. My whole family loves there chicken also fried chicken is awesome great flavors. I have been here about 10 times since the open around June and will return when I want some chicken and am to lazy to cook

My husband and I love this chicken! Let me start off by saying that my husband is the hardest man to please when it comes to restaurant food, since he’s lived in 5 states he’s basically had it all. I am not the biggest fan of chicken (I prefer steak) but this place is freaking delicious! The chicken is perfectly cooked and seasoned, not overwhelmingly covered with spices like other chicken places. The rice and beans also super good, great compliment to the chicken and they give you tortillas, sooo soo good!!! And to top it all off they have a salsa bar!!! It looks like a little salsa buffet lol I tried almost all of them and they’re all so delicious and some are super spicy, love it! Kuddos to the owner of this place saw him working hard next to his employees and is very welcoming to customers. Overall, delicious food and great service!

Have been driving past this new place the past couple weeks just tried it today. Didn’t really know what to expect. Lady helping me at the register was very helpful and gave suggestions. I ended up ordering the full grilled chicken meal it came with rice and beans and your choice of 3 salsas from there salsa bar. The staff was awesome and helpful. The chicken was great season perfectly and the rice and beans were also delicious. Salsas I also got were great! Overall experience was great defiantly will be coming back soon!

Came here for the first time after a friend was saying how good the chicken was… Huge disappointment the chicken and rice had know flavor… ((bland)) … the beans were good but thats it. Sorry but I have tasted better chicken with lots of flavor at Costco, jewels, food for less etx… they need to add flavor to there food.