So I saw an ad on TV for Grilled Chicken Nachos at El Pollo Loco. I can be highly susceptible to television advertisements for food. On my next visit to El Pollo Loco, I ordered the Grilled Chicken Nachos combo with a small drink ($6.45 including tax) to eat at the restaurant on Colton Avenue. It's on the very busy corner of Tennessee and Colton Avenues. I wonder who permitted a drive-through on such a small lot. The access is terrible. But I digress...
The dish was good, with certain buts. According to the website, which I visited post-visit, the nachos have 1060 calories, 55 grams of fat (21 g of saturated fat, 1 gram of trans fat (still? KFC has (or will have) none, but El Pollo Loco has some? Really?) 110 mg of cholesterol, 98 carbs, and 3,041 mg of sodium. Ouch! According to the Institute of Medicine, the Dietary Reference Intake (the new RDA is 1.5 grams of sodium. That means, one meal gave me two days' worth.
Other than that, it was pretty good, with a few problems. Nachos should have copious amounts of cheese. There was also very little of the advertised queso cheese sauce. The highlight was the chicken, which was moist and available. [Available?].
The El Pollo Loco website claims that the dish has queso cheese suace, sour cream, chopped boneless chicken breast, jack cheddar cheese, tortilla chips, pico de gallo salsa, guacamole, refried beans, and sliced pickled jalapeño peppers. The jalapeños were an option when I ordered, and I'd recommend them as essential; they cover-up the shortfall of cheese. The chips were fine, they were not stale like as often is the case in Del Taco's Macho Nachos.
As served, mine didn't seem to have any salsa; no matter, I was eating in and availed myself of the salsa bar.
Because of the nutrition, I wouldn't eat the nachos again. Unless the Lakers were playing.
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