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Peri-Peri Flame Grilled Chicken - CLOSED
Categories: Restaurants Chicken Wings Restaurants Halal Restaurants Portuguese Chicken Wings, Halal, Portuguese [Edit]
35 Brunel RoadSuite 4a
Mississauga, ON L4Z 3E8
(905) 568-9307
- Attire:
- Casual
- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
- Price Range:
-
$$
- Good for Groups:
- Yes
- Good for Kids:
- Yes
- Delivery:
- No
- Take Away:
- Yes
- Waiter Service:
- Yes
- Outdoor Seating:
- No
- Alcohol:
- No
- Wheelchair Accessible:
- Yes
3 reviews for Peri-Peri Flame Grilled Chicken
3 reviews in English
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Review from Janelle W.
1/2/2010 3 photos
Driving around Mississauga I'm like a hyperactive ADHD kid on a sugar high. Every 50 meters is another little ethnic restaurant. I'm snapping my neck in all directions to take everything in, constantly proclaiming, "ooh, look at that pho place" or "ooh, Indian sweets" or "Hakka Chinese, f*$% yes!"
Late last night, my better half spotted a glowing red beacon: Peri-Peri's neon sign. I pulled a U-turn in front of a cop and cut off two Canucks heading to Tim Horton's, and sped into Peri-Peri's parking lot faster than you can say "Portuguese chicken".
Peri-Peri specializes in the spicy Portuguese flame-grilled chicken of the same name. Through the evils of colonialism, Mozambique has adopted Portuguese peri-peri chicken as their own. And like everything else in Africa, Mozambiquean peri-peri is an enchanting experience that tugs on the deepest fibers of your being. I never expected to find good peri-peri in a place that replaces Africa's heat with biting cold, and giraffes with moose. But much to my surprise, Mississauga's Peri-Peri overwhelmed me--their chicken is everything it is in Africa, save for the oppressive African sunshine.
Anyone who says chicken is the most boring protein has never had peri-peri. Flame-grilling and spicy peri-peri sauce do for chicken what botox and a boob job have done for Jessica Simpson. Peri-Peri's chicken has a genuine smoky flavor and crisp charred edges. The meat remains tender and juicy from being basted in tangy peri-peri sauce. The sauce is tart, fleshy--almost fruity--and filled with the potent seeds of the birdseye chilli. Ask for the super-spicy peri-peri sauce--if you're as pale as I am, you'll need to talk them into letting you order it.
Chicken is available as a half chicken, leg quarters, breast quarters, kebabs, or boneless breasts. Sucking bones is about all I'm good for, so I'm partial to the leg quarters. But my husband, the typical lung-pillow-loving man that he is, prefers Peri-Peri's soft, supple breasts, which come served over saffron rice.
The rice is savory, fluffy, and well-seasoned without being overpowering. Yet like 20th century American literature, I just don't understand it. Saffron rice with peas and carrots? As absurd and far-fetched as Faulkner! ...But I don't need the rice. I just need Peri-Peri's spicy chicken. With its caramelized sauce and flame-crisped skin, it takes me right back to the Kalahari Desert.
I have mentally-bookmarked hundreds of ethnic dives in Mississauga. Given my once-every-few-months weekend trips to the GTA, I'll never be able to try all of these places even once over. But I'm keeping Peri-Peri on my restaurant itinerary every single time I'm here. -
Review from Farheen K.
Toronto, ON
1/28/2010
Thank you Janelle W. for pointing me to a portugese chicken oasis in a desert of Indo-Chinese and Indo-Indian. If there was such a thing as fall-off-the-bone chicken, this would be it.
The chicken is perfectly grilled, it just melts in your mouth. I like my chicken smothered in sauce (and this one isnt at all) so ask for extra homemade peri-peri sauce on the side. Its the key ingredient to having a good peri-peri (can you tell i'm in love with these words)experience.
A $50 bill gets you enough food for 5 people and that includes rice, parisien potatoes (awfully good), chicken kabobs and one full peri-peri chicken. I think I just died and went to frugal portugese heaven. -
Review from Junaid U.
Toronto, ON
2/22/2010
Nando's...prepare to meet your maker cause this little diner is almost too good to be halal!
I've been running back to this place over n over after having discovered it not too long ago. They're chicken is as juicy, tender and flavourful as you'll find in any good Portuguese chicken churrasqueira in the GTA!
If Nando's set a bar, then this place lept 7 feet over it and kept running!
What makes this place really stand up strong with 'the best of' in this category is their peri peri sauce. Behind the scenes is a trainned chef who is actually from Portugal (who woulda thunk it?!?!). The chef makes the peri peri sauce in-house and coming from a hot sauce connoiseur, i'd put that sh!t on everything! It's not too strong n its got just the right flavourful kick to be finger-licking good!
I've tried the chicken kebobs, the chicken (spicy), the chicken sandwhich and each and every side. All of the sides were great, particularly the roasted round potatoes. As for main dishes, the chicken was tender and ever so good but that was no surpise...what shocked me the most was how tasetful and juicy the chicken kebabs were. I've never tried these from a portuguese restaurant before (marinated cubes of chicken breast grilled on a skewer) but they were really good as well. While I even enjoyed the chicken sandwhich, i'd stick with the plate of chicken, rice and potatoes but that's just me.
For Mr. or Mrs. Sauga, this place is damn good and it's at an unbeatable price...the rest is up to you!
PERI PERI!
