This place is just friggin' ridiculous. It's not the best Portuguese-style roasted chicken I've had (that honour belongs to Romados - but it applies the same philosophy of ridiculous portions for dirt cheap.) But the first clue to its lack of flavour is that nearly everyone doused the chicken heavily with what tastes like diluted Frank's Red Hot.
But ya - so I ordered a 1/2 chicken dinner - which comes with a choice of two sides. So I pick the rice and point at a random pasta salad as I'm too hungry to really care. The lady is filling up my styrofoam takeout tray and asks, "Why didn't you pick the roasted potato? You don't like potato?"
Bit of an odd question, but I stammer back, "Sure - I like potatoes"
She then asks if I would like to try some (my tray is already heavy with rice and salad) and she heaps on a huge helping of potatoes before I can firmly answer one way or the other. Slap on my half chicken and a generous squirt of hot sauce and you have the best bang-for-buck meal I've seen in Toronto so far. $9 for enough food to feed a family -- and I'm not exaggerating - I saw a couple and their two kids eating out of one tray.
My takeout tray was so full, I had to eat at the limited tables they have for fear of have the contents of my fat and carb box exploding while in transport. So I ate and since I was sitting and eating anyways - I decided I was going to have my meal in the restaurant.
So I eat... and eat... and eat. I am a heavy-set man (read: 'fat bastard') and even starting hitting the wall about 1/3 of the way through the box. So I packed it up and wandered home in a food daze carrying what would pass for a full meal at other places.
The chicken was pretty moist and definitely a cut above Swiss Chalet - but it really not fantastic chicken (come on - the hot sauce pretty 'meh' and a cover-up IMO). But boy, is this place cheap.