Not sure about the ratings from others, but I really enjoyed lunch at Pollo Campero. I am very picky about chicken and not impressed with a lot of chicken spots, and generally skeptical. I took a chance and won. The staff were very friendly and pleasant as well as helpful. I decided to go with nuggets which were real chicken and not ground up by products and other weird ish. I had baked beans for the side dish, but they were just OK to me, but baby, the empanadas were delicious. Outside of my empanadas, these were some of the best I've had outside of my home. And I was really impressed and like the idea of refills on Horchata! I felt like a real winner with that alone. Also, after ordering, I was told to find a seat and that the staff would bring my food to the table. I thought that was a nice touch as well as the plating they used, which made it feel a little more special than fast food. They were a little touches that made my experience feel special and I appreciated it all. Again, I'm not sure about the mediocre ratings, but I will return for sure! read more

Their chicken & yucca fries were delicious! I enjoyed the meal very much. I will definitely come back to try their other things next time!

Pollo Campero has some of the best fried chicken I've had in a very long time, probably the best in the city. The chicken is crispy outside but moist and tender on the inside. It is also very nicely seasoned. They recently catered one of our company events and they stood out as the star of the show. Overall rate them a solid 4.25 out of 5. read more

The chicken is good here. Not great, but good. The sides leave something to be desired and the rolls are truly forgettable. Nice for a change of pace but don't go out of your way. read more

The review is for their take-out service. Finally tried the much talk about Latin chicken. Credits to my daughter's boyfriend for bringing us the 21 pc family meal to enjoy. It's worth the wait. The package has 21 pcs chicken, dinner roll ,1 mashed potatoes, 1 coleslaw and 2 plantain as sides. The chicken has flavorful taste and perfectly matched with the complimentary sauce, the coleslaw has a distinctive taste that fits to perfection and they have the best plantain I have tried. Surprisingly enjoyed the hortacha drink that ordered additionally. We were told that he needs to ring the bell before he was let in. Is it a safety measure they are following? Is it convenient for the customer? Is it for everyone interests? Will definitely coming back to try again , this time, I will be sitting down for sure. . read more

Pollo Campero - a box of fried chicken - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

POOR CUSTOMER SERVICE!!!!The lady at the counter was more interested in online orders than the actual people present at the restaurant ordering. I was standing online for about 8 minutes and then she decides to look up and take my order but before she gives me my order she goes an takes care of another online order. Doesn't probably pack the order with the supplies that needs to be in the order, forgets to give me my cup which I already had paid for. I hate poor customer service and will definitely avoid this restaurant at all times. read more

Pollo Campero - Online orders are more important than actual people ordering............... - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

We tried the 8 piece combo - mixed grilled/fried with 2 sides. Comes with tortillas or rolls. We've heard of this Latino fried chicken place for yrs but never tried it before. Like Jollibees, took me a long time to try it. Since I had some KFC not long ago, I felt like we had to compare fried chicken. The grilled chicken, moist, juicy... seasoned with lots of spices. Fried had less spices but still quite flavorful. Not as salty as other popular fried chicken franchises. For sides, I chose yuca fries and plantains. Yuca fries were really good. Not greasy at all. I love yuca in general so these were delicious even eaten alone. Plantains were ok. Mostly a filler. Tortillas were terrible. Very gritty and broke apart. But practically free ... I'd come back for their fried chicken and yuca fries. Grilled chicken had too much seasoning for me. read more

We tried 12-Piece Family Meal with half grilled chicken & half fried chicken this time. The grilled chicken was so tender, juicy and flavorful. It's much better and worth to order than the fried chicken. The family meal came with 3 sides and tortilla or dinner rolls. The corn salad is our favorite, appetizing and healthy. The dinner rolls were too dry and blend, we would choose all tortilla next time. Pollo Campero is definitely a solid place for fast food with reasonable price and great portion. read more

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I placed an order on 12/21. Order # Nad-4400. Total came out to $58.00. When my oder was delivered, everything was ice cold. I had to throw the fries and empanadas out. That was the second time that my order from Apollo Campero arrived cold. Very disappointing and unacceptable. Lost a customer as I will never order from them again. read more

Very nice people with decent fried chicken. I have no idea why it's only 3'5 stars. I also asked for a pair of glove which they lady brought to our desk directly. read more

Pollo Campero - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

I'm so glad that I accidentally discovered this gem of a restaurant. This store's roots first began in Guatemala and I'm so glad that they decided to expand their business globally. There are several stores located throughout NY and NJ and several others located throughout the USA. This is family-owned business that is still owned by the patriarch of the family and has been in business for over 45 years. This is my third visit to Pollo Campero. I can be completely honest but I didn't think that the food was going to be as good as it was. They definitely set me up because it was delicious and quite flavorful without being salty. There are many sides that they offer with the meals. I've tried the beans with sausage, fries, corn salad and mashed potatoes which were all scrumptious. The fried chicken, oh how I wish that I had the secret recipe for this flavorful and tasty chicken. I love good fried chicken and this definitely suits my palate and made my tummy extra happy. The citrus grilled chicken, oh me oh my, simply delightful. You can either takeout or dine in at Pollo Campero. If you dine in, you are asked to take a seat and your order is brought to you. The employees are very kind and helpful. There is music playing at a decent level. The atmosphere is quiet and comfortable where you can enjoy your meal and savor the food. Pollo Campero is my new go to place for flavorful chicken and great service. read more

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Team was attentive and polite. Noted manager teaching new employee and appreciated the professional manner in which lead the training. The Food was fresh and delish. I don't enjoy smoke flavor so the empanada and campero sauce wasn't up my alley. Glad it's near Jamaica station. read more

First time visit, just 2 blocks from the Jamaica train station. Excellent chicken and very friendly staff. Clean dining area with sit down service available. Fried chicken was awesome, hot and fresh. The grilled was even better. Loved the sides, coleslaw was really good and I loved the corn salad. Will definitely be back. read more

Pollo Campero - 4 piece meal, Coleslaw and Corn Salad - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

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I slept on giving this place a review here on Yelp. This has become one of my more favorite spots...if not, my favorite chicken spot, better than KFC, Popeyes and slightly over Jollibee. Fried or Grilled you're gonna get the best out of their chicken, their sides are delicious, my usual favs are the Campero rice & Plantains and I also recommend their special drinks from Mango, Guava to Horchata, it has that authentic Latin feel as opposed to your usual soft drink. I definitely recommend it if you want something other than your usual KFC, Popeyes or that Kennedy Fried Chicken in almost every corner of Queens. read more

Pollo Campero - My usual, a 3 piece with fries and complimentary dinner roll. - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

Ordered the grilled two piece chicken and maduros. It came with a roll and honestly, the chicken could've been cooked a bit longer. The lime in the box added flavor to the chicken, but the maduros were the star of the meal. read more

Pollo Campero - Drink area - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

Great location... while I was going to jury duty I had stopped by for lunch and food was excellent.. quick walk from Jamaica court house and longisland raileoad.. week come back again read more

I came here after taking care of some personal business in the area. I was starving and looking for a quick bite to eat. I stumbled upon this chicken place, never heard of them seems to be a lot of them around. I ordered a grill chicken sandwich with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy. I have to say it tasted pretty good well seasoned and nicely charred. The mashed potatoes were piping hot the way I like it, and good as well. They have a selection of fried chicken, buffalo wings, crispy chicken sandwiches. A good amount of sides rice, potatoes, mac &cheese, fries etc.. They have an in house drink made of mangos that was really good. read more

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I have a LOVE/HATE feeling for this place. SERVICE: Very average. Pehaps the place needs a manager to oversee the execution of the food. Or maybe a chef OR a very good cook. FOOD: the flavors are there, roasted chicken has an amazing taste, the fried one, of course not a fan, but it does have good flavor and texture. However, few times i have gotten my order wrong, that is how I know the fried chicken taste good despite being too oily for my taste. I can make my peace with that. Most of the times the roasted chicken looks great on the outside and salmonella RAW in the inside. Few times it's almost charcoal burned but still bit raw inside, have only eaten the top side. I have come to this place more than a few times, but it's time to say "sayonara! Adeui! Chao! Goodbye." GREAT flavor but serious lack of execution on their food. I can also make my peace with the level of salt they add, because u can buy a small white rice from the Chinese store few doors down and sort of level it. Their yuca/cassava fries are really tasty too, and most of the time their sweet plantain is really good. Thanks for the times I've been there. read more

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Had been wanting to try out this place for a while. Finally got the lunch special they have currently, 6 for $6 (3 pcs of chicken, roll or tortilla, drink and a side). Chicken options are grilled, fried, or extra crispy. I hate giving bad reviews bc afterall, taste is subjective. Good, large enough portiin but the fried chicken was too salty for my taste. And the coleslaw had zero taste. Good prices, friendly staff, clean establishment, but I'll stick to the other place down the street. read more

Pollo Campero - Lunch special - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

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I have ordered take out from them 3 times in the last 2 weeks for a total of 5 bowls. Both my boyfriend and I have ordered only the campero bowls with fried chicken. AMAZING!!! Delivery is on time and came early one time. The campero sauce is to die for!!! read more

I came here on a whim to try something new for dinner. I ordered the 8 piece chicken combo; half grilled and half fried. Along with their sides: plantains, corn salad, rice, and chicken empanadas. My food took less than ten minutes to come out. I was excited to get home and dig in. Ugh what a mistake. Pollo Campero I wanted to like you. I really did, but the food here needs work. The Peruvian style lime infused chicken was tasteless. The fried chicken had a hint of seasoning but nothing to write home about. The empanadas were filled with grease. I thought I asked for chicken not oil empanadas. As soon as I bit into the empanada out comes a pepito pepper and three tablespoons of oil squirted out. The empanada was so oily that it overpowered the chicken filling. The plantains were just as oily. To the point that I had to pat them dry to get some of the excess oil off. Don't even think about ordering the corn salad. I'm not sure what was going on but my palate did not like it. I'm not fond of anything here. You've been warned. read more

Their food is super delicious and really tasty but very expensive. Special occasions but not a regular thing for this reason ONLY. if the prices dropped I might order there more oft New update: 3rd of December 2019 I ordered from them again yesterday through Door Dash and here's what happened. *Everything was cold, the coleslaw smelled rotten the first time I opened it an the caramel flans were gross (both of them)-they taste raw and gave me diarrhea. I had to throw them away. The meat and bean pork soup we're good but cold. Should be packaged tighter for the winter time. I won't order here anymore.* read more

It nice to have Pollo campero in the neighborhood. Service is nice but also slow at the same time. Once you place your order there is a long wait to receive your food which is not cool with so many workers there why is the wait so long when I want my food to go? And by time you get your food and get home the chicken is warm. They need to work on the timing of getting food to the customers better. But other than that the food is okay. read more

Pollo Campero - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

I give it 5 stars, the food is extremely well done! DELICIOUS DELICIOUS DELICIOUS! I ordered the family pack for $30, u can feed up to 6 people. The staff are very kind and helpful. I'm very picky with my food, they deliver what they say. Please give them a try and you will see for yourself what I mean when I say DELICIOUS! read more

Pollo Campero - Yuca, plantain's,Cole slaw, corn salad, grill chicken leg& thigh, fried chicken - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

Great chicken always flavorful and not fatty. The new chicken sandwiches are also tasty and the bogo offer made them even better. Don't forget the empanadas they are always delicious. So glad they deliver and do it promptly. read more

It never failed when I come here. The wait is ridiculous! And the service is terrible! Always chit chatting in the back. LIKE COME ON. They never failed to mess up my orders. read more

Dont not eat here. My friend has been suffering from food poisoning from only eating the fries here. Thank goodness they closed early without warning or I would of gotten sick as well. They dont wear gloves, they must of touched some chicken the touched. His diarrhea was yellow and suffered from both ends. Eat at your own risk. There not suppose to be serving while on construction they said and having a grade pending. They said the place is under construction but, still serving. There suppose to shut down. read more

I came here purely out of chance bc I was on jury duty and not much around to get excited over. so I see this what looked like a typical Peruvian chicken spot and when I got closer looks more like a budding franchise. They had a nice array of different Spanish dishes fried chicken of course and grilled as well. I went with the grilled chicken with a side of yuca fries (which were made fresh not frozen ) and I was very impressed with the chicken full of flavor not dry at all and the guava juice was very good not too sweet. If I have jury duty tomorrow I'll probably come back read more

Pollo Campero - 3 piece grilled chicken with yuca fries and tortillas - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

Amazing service at this location, the chicks and food is just perfect. Don't listen to the other reviews, other than Popeyes you really won't find better Fried chicken more consistent in Queens. read more

Pollo Campero - Latin American Near Me - Jamaica, New York

I came here while on lunch break for jury duty and I was so delightfully surprised! The decor was beautiful, the staff was extremely friendly and helpful! When I mentioned that it was my first time there they provided suggestions and followed up once I began to eat. The food was delicious! I had the extra crispy chicken sandwich and a side of plantains. Mouth watering! And the mango juice was incredible! Sweet but light and fresh! Definitely recommend! read more

I tried this place one day because I was waiting for the bus across the street from it and realized that I was hungry abd didn't have anything at home that I wanted. I got a combo I think it was 6.99 came with a quarter chicken either grilled or fried, two sides dinner roll and a soda. The chicken is supposed to be Peruvian style. The flavor was just ok. What I didn't like was the texture. It was rubbery. I got the vegetable rice and the coleslaw with it. The rice was good, a good flavor and cooked correctly. The coleslaw would have been good if it wasn't too salty. I'm used to my coleslaw having a little bit of tang & sweetness. It was fresh though at least, so was the roll. They have some hot sauces on the side that are pretty good & add flavor. I guess for 6.99 you can't go wrong. Maybe the chicken will be better next time. They do take debit & credit which is good read more

I decided that there was no point in me holding a grudge against my local Campero store, where they treat me like a queen EVERY TIME I order which is way more often than ever (!) in spite of the behavior of Campero's corporate offices toward me (See further below about that).. The food is so good that I couldn't resist going back! It is even better than before! Last week, Yessenia, the Jamaica Store manager delivered my food to me herself and remembered me from when I visited the store at which time she prepared my order herself (with a smile and TLC (Tender Loving Care!) because she thought that the other staff were taking too long to do so! When Yessenia delivered my food last week, I gave her a beautiful white rose, for friendship, out of a lovely bouquet of red and white roses that I had bought that day. She hugged me in thanks. Also, I believe that like my roses that I kept, hers must have bloomed and opened even more beautifully as has my relationship with ALL Campero staff at my local Jamaica store, for which I am VERY gratified! Finally, in this vein, although I don't know why your headquarters staff treated me as they did, although I believe it was because they envy the range of my accomplishments and abilities as most people do, I believe that I am at least partly responsible if I inspire such behavior in others. May I know what I did to deserve you turning down trying even once my obviously excellent consulting services, the price for which also seemed right to me, and which consultations I've been repeatedly giving you for free in these surveys and on your Facebook page and for which your HQ staff praised the usefulness of very highly? Again, I think your HQ staff's behavior toward me was highly unfair. But thanks anyway, and your Jamaica, Queens, NY Store has won my heart completely in their behavior toward me, as I believe I have won theirs! I hope this finds you having a pleasant day! P.S.--I have completed 30 points, five points above the original 25 that I promised for my one time fee of $600 that Campero could use to improve your service, food, etc., AND I have included compliments on what Campero is doing right in my opinion. Anytime you want them, let me know and we can arrange for you to pay me my discounted one-time fee of $600 for same! read more

The wait was a bit extra but the line moved faster than the first time I peeked in the door. Twety feet from the door, two cashiers, people ready to order and I was in and out in about 25 minutes. Now this was not without incident. I ordered grilled, I got fried buy they quickly fixed it and it was tasty as ever. Be patient and enjoy.... the Tamarindo was looking tasty but I'm on a diet, lol. read more

The best fast food in all of Jamaica queens they are so kind and welcoming I love campero fried chicken the staff is super nice !!! I try to come every week !!! read more

The food is good. I love the grilled chicken always nice and juicy never dry. Pricing and substitutions could be better not alot of food for the price they charge compared to other non chain Spanish food restaurants. The staff are pleasant and the place is always clean. read more

Beatiful design, horrible service . The girl at the register has a very rude attitude. She didn't talk loud enough . So I had to ask to raise her voice and then she got mad .. The girl at the back was yelling us to dont mess the restroom that she just had clean , if they dont want people messing the restroom why they allow people to go in? Never come back to this place again. read more

Great food and one of the best customer service experience for a fast food place. They have non common items and they will take the time to give you suggestions and explain whats in your order. The food is delicious and i strongly recommend stopping by this place. The manager Ana is doing a very great job with this store. read more

Had the grilled chicken, rice and tortillas. Food was delicious. When the woman behind the counter brought me my food she went back to get me limes to make my chicken even tastier. read more

Stumbled upon this place while walking towards the train so decided to give it a try. Absolutely worth it. The workers were super friendly and brought my food to the table. They even came by to ask how my food was. This is something you don't usually see at a fast food type establishment which was a nice touch. The grill chicken was super moist and flavorful and empanadas were great as well. I will definitely be visiting again read more

Let me start by saying that they've done a soft opening. I believe their grand opening is the first week of June. That being said, they currently need work on their operations. Long wait times and wrong orders should be fixed immediately. As for the chicken, it was tasty with the green sauce. However, the size of the pieces were smaller than I had hoped. It's hard to get value at Pollo Campero, when they're in a neighborhood that already has cheap food. read more

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