Great chicken and passion fruit drinks. I want to try the ceviche next time. We were the only ones in there at 4pm so service was good.

Poultry done right with a Spanish flare! My go-to selection along w/ rice, black beans, maduros and chicken soup... Very savory selections!

1st charging stop on our trip to Asheville. Can't go wrong with Peruvian! We are hungry but not starving, just got empanada platter and sweet plantains. The kitchen is cooking right there, smells great but there is smoke in the building. So that wasn't great. There is outside seating. The food was fabulous. The green sauce was so good and spicy! Oh my gosh, pick up a few of the chocolates on the counter! read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Cute sign - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

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I call 3 times to order food and the lady that pick up the phone always a terrible customer service.

I very rarely take the time to write a review for disappointing food, but this was so gross we ended up tossing the majority of it. The empanadas looked and tasted like they were dropped into bad oil straight out of a freezer bag. The chicken sandwich was poorly chopped, dry, unseasoned chicken with a sad thin lettuce leaf and no sauce on a bland bun. The "tamalito" was the size and weight of a large burrito of thick, bland, boiled masa and a very thin line of again wildly underseasoned and poorly cooked filling. The fries didn't even have an ounce of salt, which is the easiest possible thing to get right! Gross, disappointing, and mostly in the trash. read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - "Tamalito" - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

Just finished lunch. The most unflavored south American food I've ever had. The empanadas were awful...no flavor...tasted like they were frozen beef patties from the supermarket but worse. Also had the tamalito and it was inedible. It was really that disappointing. Maybe some other things on the menu are better but I wouldn't give it another chance. read more

This restaurant is very close to our place, we did try it out through Groupon. We generally get the half portion of pollo a La brasa (rotisserie chicken) which comes with 2 sides and 2 dipping sauces ( a green one pica peru and a yellow mayo) ..For sides we've tried their green beans, tostones, yucca fries and side salad, but I generally get the yucca and side salad. They are a bit stingy on the dipping sauces, they have reduced the size of the container and the last time I asked for extra she said it's available online on Amazon and started showing it on the app too (funny)! But overall it's great food and service I will definitely go back It's perfect for a balanced meal after working out and having no strength to make my own food! read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Lucky 2 Half Chicken - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

I revisited this place this month and got the same dish. It was exactly the way I remember it - authentic tasting and delicious. read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Half Peruvian chicken with yuca fries and a house salad - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

This place looks good from the outside, but I was very disappointed. Ordered a quarter chicken and a soda, soda was $3.69. They also added a 3% "food processing" fee. They don't tell you about any of this in advance. Apparently, I also was charged a 20% tip without being told, then left an additional tip on top of that. (I didn't even know it until I read the reviews here.). Very sharp business practices and I would not return for that reason alone. Service was decent, but minimal. They came by once to ask if I needed anything. But the food was very mediocre. Chicken is not nearly as good as alpaca. Beans and salad were tasteless. Do not recommend this place. I was the only person in the restaurant now I know why. read more

Incredible ceviche. Best Ive ever eaten. Wonderful family business and great service dining in. Always part of my Bass Pro visits every time. Catering is great also. read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Ceviche Pescado boys day out lunch! - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

Oh...Lucky Chicken. I wanted to like you so bad but it just didn't work. I stopped in and assumed that it was like the other rotisserie chicken places, where it's cafeteria style but it was actually a dine in. I walked over to the counter to order and the person taking my order was confused. She asked me to take a seat -- this was when I realized it was a dine in restaurant. I was in a rush too but thought I would give it a try. It took a while to place my order. After placing my order, it took a while to receive my food. There were only 2-3 people before me. I ordered the 1/4 chicken with a side of rice and fries. The chicken was tender but it did not taste like Peruvian rotisserie chicken. It tasted more like what you would buy from Food Lion. Actually, it wasn't as good as Food Lion. The fries left a greasy taste in my mouth and the rice tasted undercooked. Overall, it was worth a try but listen to the reviews. It's pretty accurate. I wish this restaurant all the best and may they take the feedback from customer and turn the restaurant around. There's a lot of potential for this time of cuisine in this area. read more

This place is a scam. Paid for lunch for 2 of my workers and i and was automatically charged with 20% tip. Only time i saw the waitress was when she brought our lunch. Had to get up my self and ask for beverage refills.theres was 2 tables with people at the time, not like it was busy. read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

This place should be more crowded than it is. Everything was great, especially the black beans and yuca fries. Wait staff was very friendly. read more

They charge 20% gratuity and the service is not even good. The server just brings the food and disappears, didn't even get refill on drinks. Won't be coming back. read more

We went on a weeknight and were the only customers. I almost felt bad for ordering because the kitchen was so clean and looked shutdown. It is a family owned business and there are Peruvian flags and menu photos on the walls. They have a large assortment of seafood dishes as well as favorites like the chicken and lomo saltado. The lunch prices look really good on the sign and the dinner prices are a bit higher in the $15 or so range. We ordered the half chicken and because I had a coupon, I could only get the 1/4 chicken. It comes with two sides and we had tostones and yucca. I ordered the lomo saltado and you can get it with beef or chicken. We dined at home and the flavor of the chicken is the yummy smoky flavor and the lomo is a great combination of rice and French fries with beef, vegetables and soy sauce. The location is a bit hidden. I am glad we found it though and thank you for opening the kitchen for our meal. We will be back to try the lunch menu and empanadas. read more

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Estaba bien rico. Iban a cerrar y no abrió las puertas para atendernos. Muchas gracias.

Not friendly at all. Very little interest in service also. No drink refills. Very expensive for the portions also. Won't be returning. Food was ok, not amazing. Also, the carne was inedible - full of hard fat. read more

If you want good food in a nondescript setting, this is Lucky Chicken. It's not fancy or presumptuous. Language may be a barrier but if you're willing to explore, there's treasures to be found. Food is similar to Alpaca but there's more options to explore here. The Chinese influence in Peru is apparent in dishes like chaufa (fried rice) & saltados (sautées). There's also cerviche & other seafood dishes which I need to try next time. The half chicken plate is a very generous portion of deliciously seasoned & rotisseried chicken. (Be sure to ask for the spicy green aji sauce for the chicken!). It's served with a side (I chose the yucca fries) & a simple salad of lettuce tomato & onion with a creamy dressing. Hubby had the lomo a lo pobre (beef sautéed with onion, tomatoes & French fries served with white rice & fried eggs). Food was very generous & very good! Wait is a bit longer but this is not a fast food place. This appears to be family run & food is made to order for the most part. read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Lomo de lo Pobre Sautéed beef with onion, tomatoe & French fries served with white rice & fried eggs - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

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The ceviche and paella are both really delicious every time we visit here!! I also recommend guava cheesecake.

Called the day prior to thanksgiving prior to coming and they said they would be open thanksgiving day until 3pm. Drove 35 minutes and the store was closed. That is not good service and everywhere else is closed thanksgiving day so now I don't have any main dish for thanksgiving. Thank you read more

I didn't even check reviews before I came here. I was at RDU staying at a hotel nearby and just happened to walk by this place. I did a mission trip to Peru in 2000 and had a great experience so when I saw Peruvian Chicken I had to stop in. I had nowhere NEAR the experience that others seem to have had when it came to the service. The young lady that was working with the customers was exceptionally polite and kind, to me as well as the other customers that came through while I was waiting. She mentioned that it was only her third day so maybe they hired someone because of the other reviews? Who knows...regardless she was a complete sweetheart the entire time I was there and never stopped moving between cleaning tables, taking orders, etc. I ordered a half chicken with a salad and black beans. I'm afraid they may have over corrected because the beans were incredibly salty...like...really salty. I tend to prefer more than less when it comes to salt but this was the high end of my tolerance level. They were cooked to the right softness though. The chicken was really good. It was well seasoned and incredibly juicy and it came out blitzing hot. Not much else to say about that because that pretty much hits my requirements for chicken! I wish I'd known there was a more spicy sauce. She asked if I wanted yellow sauce and I took some, but I didn't like it. Also, bonus, they have Inca Cola. I didn't get any because I'm trying to avoid sugar but that stuff is the best! read more

Food: 3 Service: 3 Ambience: 3 Date/Time: 3/26/2016 8:00pm This restaurant is located in the strip mall just off the Harrison Ave exit of I-40. It's a small place with plain seating and some decoration on the walls... nothing special. It's set up like many sit down "fast food" places (i.e. Greek Fiesta, Peace China, etc) where the kitchen is viewable from the tables. The server does the basics with taking your order and delivering the food, but not with much enthusiasm. To give credit, however, she did check back to see if things were ok since we were the only ones in the restaurant. The food was good, but nothing special. There's not a lot of choices if you're looking for chicken dishes (4 to be exact, not including the whole chicken option) and the chicken is flavorful, but again, nothing special. We ordered the Chaufa De Pollo (chicken fried rice) and Saltado De Pollo (chicken with onions and tomatoes). Strangely, the latter comes with white rice and fries so you'll get a carb overload for sure. I'd recommend it for the Chaufa De Pollo if you're in the neighborhood, but I wouldn't drive out of my way for it. read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Chaufa De Pollo - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

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I walked by and stopped to look at the menu. The waitress came out and saw me and told me I should come in since they had lunch specials. She seemed friendly at that point and I already knew I liked their menu from the Clayton location, so I went in. Apparently after she gets people inside and seated, she dislikes them. She seemed irritated I was there. I mean I wasn't even going to stop here but she was friendly so I did. I'm sorry? I had the picante de camarones. It was ok. I was hoping for spicy but it was just sort of mild. And the tails were on the shrimp which I hate. It probably would have been four stars if the waitress didn't seem so irritated that I was actually in their restaurant. I was just walking by planning to go to the bar/grill two doors down (they are super friendly btw) but went in because she came outside and was really nice telling me I should eat there. But she wasn't pleasant at all once I was inside. She never came by to check on me, and when she did come come - for my order, to bring food, and to drop check) she was so unpleasant. read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Picante de camarones - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

This was my first time in the Durham/Raleigh area. After checking into the Embassy Suites hotel, I was looking for some dinner. I drove to the nearby shopping center to see what options I had and found Lucky Chicken. When I walked in, the lady was counting down the register and going over the receipts for the day. That still had an 30 minutes before closing, but ok. She never looked up at me, but rather just said "take-out or done-in?" I told her it was take out. She handed me a menu and said, "what you getting" Wow, ok. So I ordered the Lucky #4 which was a quarter chicken and two sides. I ordered rice and beans with my chicken. She said it would be ten minutes so I walked the shopping center. 11 mins later I reached the location and it was dark and closed. I was like what the what!!! I was let in and then handed a bag with my order. I drove back to my hotel and when I went to eat, I found undercooked pink/red chicken. I bagged the food back up and placed it in the hotel refrigerator to take back the next morning. I ended up going back out and having to settle for Wendy's for dinner read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

The ceviche here is amazing. Closest to what I remember it tasting like when I lived in Lima. Owners were super friendly as well. Like Schwarzenegger says, I'll be back. read more

I was excited to try a new place. Like other reviewers I thought it would be more like Mama Noras or Alpaca. It's sit down and there was only one other table. The waitress was one of the worst I've ever experienced. She brought us no water. I don't think she spoke much English. I asked her some questions that she was not able to answer. Without much info I went with 1/4 dark with black beans and rice. She brought me a 1/4 white. When I told her my order was wrong she questioned if I had ordered dark or not. Then she never came and checked on us. The chicken was very small. There was large amount of rice and bean covering the plate. Would have preferred better plating. Skip this place. read more

Ordered seamless before 7pm. Restaurant informed seamless they would not make our order because they were closing early. Should have taken your availability off the delivery providers before you closed. Sorry, but me spending 20 minutes to figure out what I want is not worth my time to try again. read more

Lucky Chicken vs. Alpaca - Lucky Chicken is more of a whole in the wall - whereas Alpaca is well oiled machine. The service at Alpaca is quick and prompt, food is hot full of flavor every time! Lucky Chicken not so much - hate to have to give it 3 but the service and I've been there 2x now is just horrible - the food is hit or miss. I wish it could be more! UGH and the prices are outrageous - pic below of the lunch read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

I saw the sign from I-40 saying Peruvian chicken and I love Peruvian Chicken. So, I ordered the Lucky Chicken which was a Grilled Chicken Breast dish with onions and tomatoes and I got it TO-GO. Man, this was sad dish. The chicken breast was so small and flat looking, I thought it was a joke. I would say that it was about 6 oz at the most. It didnt even taste good. Price was was over priced for what I got. Hopefully, they will get better. Service was good. I got my food quick. read more

This is probably one of the worst restaurants in town, the food was definitely the worst I've ever had and the service was very very bad... the lady behind the counter was rude and didn't know what she was doing! The entire service staff is atrocious and quite frankly could care less if their clients are satisfied with both food and service received. The rotisserie chicken was awfully pale, looked undercooked and tasted gross. Black beans are bland/tasteless and white rice was not good at all. I wish I could give this overall experience a 0 star but Yelp will not allow me to do so!!! read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - Rotisserie Lucky 2 Half Chicken - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina

I've eaten once before and the food was okay. The service I can't recall. This time around I was very disappointed. I came in for lunch on Saturday at noon and was greeted by I guess the owners daughter. She was dressed in jeans and a Jersey didn't look presentable. Her son looked upset like he didn't want to be there waiting tables. We ordered a mix ceviche, Peruvian paella, and salchi papas. The ceviche was suppose to come with shrimp, fish, and octopus. I received it only with fish and tons of onions. The owner came up to the table and told us that it's normally served with camote (sweet potatoe), but it was cooking when we ordered and added it the ceviche. I brought it up to her attention that I was missing the shrimp and octopus in my ceviche, she took the ceviche into the kitchen to add it in. She added 4 shrimps and 2 tiny octopus pieces for a $18 dollar plate. The paella was okay. I've had better at Cuban restaurants. While we were eating there was something in the oven with the door open and the smoke invaded the whole place. I couldn't stand the smell I was ready to run out of the place. I barely touched my salchipapas they looked like Vienna sausages fried thrown on some fries. I've had better at other places. Personally won't be coming here again. read more

Service was bad. Really bad. Make me think the person who took my order hated me or she just hates all the customers. I got a groupon and she just redeemed it, and later she told me I can only pay the rest with cash because I used groupon. I don't bring cash with me, so I got nothing today, plus I need to pray for groupon for refunding me as she redeemed my coupon already! Go ahead and skip it, unless you want to get nothing but angry. read more

If you're looking for a dine in experience where you're waited on hand and foot. This is not it. If you're looking for a quick bite to eat with fantastic food - this is your place! The food was so so good. I was just driving through and I'm really glad I stopped here. read more

so upset first of: customer service bad =workers have dry attitude second: ordered empanadas and they were not even cooked could tell they were frozen and store bought ordered pasta with shrimp and the order does not include soy sauce in the description yet when the food arrive the noodles were covered in soy sauce the only good thing was their beverages read more

I've been to Lima several times and discovered their amazing cuisine! I have yet to find good authentic Peruvian food and I have to say Lucky Chicken was not it. Their food is ok, and definitely not stellar. Service was pretty inattentive, apparently phone videos are more important than attending to customers.... I had the lomo salted, a pretty standard dish, and I was not impressed. Meat was too "well done," fries soggy and way too many onions. On our second dish we ordered no onions, which did not come across. The seafood mix had plenty onions in them... So all and all, my search for good Peruvian food continues!! read more

Delicious lunch here last weekend. My grandson, recently returned from Peru, had been describing the luscious Lomo Saltado he ate 6 days in a row in Lima and surrounding places. The next day I wandered into The Lucky Chicken and ordered the Lomo Saltado. It was delicious, but way too much for me at lunch so I brought the leftovers home and my grandson had them as a snack before dinner. He pronounced them very good. I would eat here again. Although the food was 5 star, the service was less than stellar. I had to ask 3 times for a glass of water and had to flag down someone to get the check. I was one of 3 tables occupied at the time and one table was waiting for their take-out order to to prepared. read more

Came here with my family on a Friday night for dinner. We were the only sit-down customers, but there were a few take-out customers that came by. It was a little deceiving, since the chairs were already stacked on the tables and it looked like they were starting to clean up. But they were open. Our family went family-style and tried a few things on the menu. What I liked: -The chicken. If you don't get anything else here, get the chicken. It's very well-seasoned, charred just enough to get that smoky flavor, and the meat is tender (especially the dark meat - my favorite). It won't disappoint. -The yucca fries. Nice, thick cuts of yucca, with a crispy exterior and a firm, but soft, interior. Better than their regular french fries, in my opinion. -The ceviche. It's pretty solid in terms of flavoring and how it's prepared. It came with some crunchy corn kernels, which I enjoyed as well. -The plantains. I'm not a huge fan of plantains, but they do them well. We ordered a few other things that weren't bad, but I wasn't too excited about (such as the Lomo Saltado - the beef was a little too tough for my liking). I like that it's a family-owned and run place, and the service was excellent - very personable and friendly. The pricing is reasonable, too. It's a smaller place, and the ventilation isn't great, so there was a bit of a smoky haze in the restaurant. But overall, it was a satisfying meal and a good dining experience. read more

2 stars. Both are for the food in the past. My fiance and I stopped in today for lunch since we have always liked their food. However, after today, we went br back. When we got there 2 employees were sitting at the table right before you open the door. When we walked in no one was at the counter to take our order. We could see 2 employees washing dishes in the back. No problem. The problem was that the 2 employees outside saw us come in and didn't even bother coming to take our order. It's not like they were even busy, they had 2 customers in the store. We waited for about 3 minutes for someone to come and take our order and just decided if they didn't want our business then we would go to another Peruvian restaraunt. I would be embarrassed if I was the owner of this restaraunt. The complete lack of care in having or keeping customers is ridiculous. Sorry lucky chicken, you won't be getting anymore business from us or the people who I tell. read more

Unbelievably bad. Comically bad. Disturbingly bad. This dinner for my family of four was so incredibly terrible, I almost do not have the words to describe it. But I shall try. We were in the shopping center to see Santa at Bass Pro Shop. While waiting for our turn, we decided to get some dinner. We stumbled upon Lucky Chicken. Authentic Peruvian sounded really good to all of us. But i admit, we ignored some glaring red flags from the get-go. When we walked in, almost all of the tables in the place were filthy. Plates stacked high, food on the floor, etc. But, perhaps they had just gotten over a dinner rush and they did appear to be short-staffed with only one server and one cook. Perhaps that was an indication that people like the place and the food is really good! So, we would give them the benefit of the doubt [Future Me: NO! TURN BACK YOU FOOL! GO SOMEWHERE ELSE! ANYWHERE ELSE!!!] The menu made the food look really good. There are pictures of what appears to be authentic Peruvian cuisine as promised. And lots of options. I almost ordered Peruvian Paella - but thought, "that's an expensive dish...I'll start with something they say they are known for and if it is good, i'll get paella next time!" So, I ordered their signature Lucky Chicken dish. My wife ordered the classic Peruvian Quarter-Chicken, with fries and a salad on the side. The kids ordered some kind of kids Peruvian chicken dish. When the food came after nearly an hour (despite us being one of only two occupied tables at this point), I was instantly embarrassed for everyone involved. Myself for having brought my family in this place. The server who had to put these pathetic dishes down in front of us with a straight face. The "chef" who clearly must have been making it up as he went along. And the other people in the restaurant. It almost felt like a Truman-Show parody restaurant. Like we were all playing restaurant, pretending to go through the motions, while in reality being served something my 7 year old could have whipped up for dinner. Not joking. My dish included SEVERELY over-microwaved strips of white chicken, marinated in what can only be described as soy sauce, slapped on top of huge slices of raw red onion, sloppy overcooked and oozing chunks of tomato, and plain, bland white rice. However, to my surprise, the white rice sat upon a hidden lake of soy sauce at the bottom of the plate - not sure if they ran out of traditional Peruvian sauce or rather if they really are just making it up as they go. I could only eat a few bites. I worried too much about how the food must have been handled and prepared given the condition in which they brought it out. If they care this little about the appearance of the food when they serve it to you, God knows what is happening in that kitchen beyond what you can see. The rest of the family had similar experiences. Soggy, soft, and limp grocery store french fries, some of which my kids reported were still frozen or cold in the middle. Their overcooked chicken looked like a plate of cat food; like mine, it appeared to be the consequence of chicken that at one point had been boiled, then perhaps brushed with soy sauce, and then was microwaved and cut into dry disgusting pieces and served to us. I cannot remember the last time i had to pay for a meal this bad. I cannot remember the last time i had food this bad at all. We worried we would get food poisoning because of how it looked and tasted. Luckily, aside from some mild tummy aches, we all survived. But then again we did not eat much of what they brought. It is worth noting that we did not see much of the server once she dropped off the food, probably because she was mortified at what we would say if she had to ask how everything tasted. It is very small restaurant, but she did a nice job of hiding once our food was served. PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THIS RESTAURANT. THEY DO NOT DESERVE YOUR MONEY AND THEY DO NOT DESERVE TO SERVE YOU. YOU WORK TOO HARD FOR YOUR MONEY TO PAY FOR GARBAGE LIKE THIS. I BEG YOU. Thanks for reading, and may the odds of not eating at this place be forever in your favor. read more

Currently eating the ceviche and drinking some inca kola. It's very authentic Peruvian cuisine. I've eaten at all the Peruvian joints around Raleigh and this one is setup a little bit more casual. The quality of ingredients are very good and I would recommend the restaurant. read more

Lucky Chicken Peruvian Cuisine - The one and only inca kola! - Peruvian Near Me - Cary, North Carolina