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(More)About this blog: I am a perpetually hungry twenty-something journalist, born and raised in Menlo Park and currently working at the Palo Alto Weekly as education and youth staff writer. I graduated from USC with a major in Spanish and a minor in journalism. Though my first love is journalism, food is a close second. I am constantly on the lookout for new restaurants to try, building an ever-expanding "to eat" list. As a journalist, I'm always trolling news sources and social media websites with an eye for local food news, from restaurant openings and closings to emerging food trends. When I was a teenager growing up in Menlo Park, I always drove up to the city on weekends with the singular purpose of finding a better meal than I could at home. But in the past year or so, the Peninsula's food culture has been totally transformed, with many new restaurants opening and a continuous stream of San Francisco restaurants coming south to open Peninsula outposts. Don't navigate this food boom hungry and alone! Feed me your tips on new chefs and eats and together we'll share them with the broader community.
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Tacolicious expands chicken concept to Palo Alto
Uploaded: Aug 6, 2018
Last summer, Bay Area Mexican restaurant Tacolicious launched a delivery-only rotisserie chicken concept out of one of its San Francisco locations. Dubbed
MF Chicken, it will expand to the Palo Alto Tacolicious today, Aug. 6.
The chickens will be made at Tacolicious at 632 Emerson St. and be available for pick-up there or delivery through Caviar and DoorDash.
"Think of it as a concept within a concept," a press release suggests.
The Rocky free-range chickens are rubbed with an ancho chile-based marinade and then roasted. They come with organic corn tortillas, rice, Rancho Gordo black midnight beans and necessary taco toppings like chopped onions, cilantro, pickled cabbage and two salsas.
The spread from MF Chicken. Photo courtesy Tacolicious.
The MF Chicken
menu also includes a chicken soup, salad and cauliflower al pastor made with achiote and lime.
MF Chicken was inspired in part by the Tacolicious owners' childhood memories at chicken chain El Pollo Loco, visits to pollo asado stands in Mexico and co-owner Joe Hargrave's time learning "the art of the rotisserie" at Restaurant LuLu in San Francisco in the 1990s.
However, "trying to feed my family had me scheming about MF Chicken since 2012 when we got very close to opening a place in Noe Valley," Hargrave said in the press release.
A whole chicken with sides will cost $32 and a half, $17. The restaurant's website says a whole chicken and sides feed about three people — "four if you're light eaters or have kids."
MF "stands for whatever you want it to," said Kory Cogdill, PR and community manager for Tacolicious. The takeout bags are covered with examples in both Spanish and English: muy fuerte, muy fantástico, mi familia, mad flavor, messy fingers and, yes, "O[MFG."
In addition to the Palo Alto outpost, Tacolicious operates three locations in San Francisco and one at Santana Row in San Jose.
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