Chefs can braise, charbroil, grill, poach, roast, smoke or steam chickens. Any way they choose to cook the birds, I’ll devour them down to the bone. Sure, heritage breed, ethically raised chickens from a farm-to-table restaurant can be great, with deeper flavor, but I enjoy more Los Angeles chicken plates from grocery store parking lot grills, basic rotisseries or smoky, mom-and-pop strip mall restaurants. I have separate guides to Los Angeles fried chicken, Los Angeles chicken wings, Los Angeles fried chicken sandwiches and Los Angeles chicken and rice. I’ll also include chicken skewers in my upcoming Los Angeles kebabs guide. In addition to all that, find my favorite (mostly bone-in) Los Angeles chicken dishes.

Augie’s On Main Dirty Chicken – Santa Monica ↓

Bacolod Chick’n Inasal Best Chicken Inasal – Winnetka ↓

Badmaash Badass Chicken Tikka – DTLA, Fairfax Village + Venice ↓

Bridgetown Roti Honey Jerk Chicken – Hollywood ↓

Chick Me Out Rotisserie Chicken – North Hollywood ↓

Cosetta Chicken Cesare – Santa Monica ↓

Damian Pollito Al Pastor – Arts District ↓

El Pollo Pio Pio Chicken – Tujunga ↓

Happy Together Coconut Crispy Chicken – El Monte ↓

Kuya Lord Litson Manok – Melrose Hill ↓

La Granja Rotisserie Chicken – Crenshaw ↓

Limoné Mediterranean Chicken & Fries – Glendora + Torrance ↓

Loli Farms Pollo a la Brasa – Pasadena ↓

Maple Block Mole Colorado – Culver City ↓

Night + Market Song Thai Boxing Chicken – Silver Lake ↓

Pollos Al Carbon Chicken – Van Nuys ↓

Pop’s Chicken Charbroil Chicken – Sun Valley ↓

Ronan Pan-Roasted Chicken – Hollywood ↓

Saucy Chick Indi-Mex Eatery Pibil Chick – Pasadena ↓

Selva Smoked Pollo – Long Beach ↓

Sqirl Chicken – Virgil Village ↓

TLV Tapas Bar Chicken Musakhan – Tarzana ↓

Yum Sະlut Pieng Gai Lao – Pop-Up ↓