A Politically Incorrect Blog About Living in Woodland Hills, California

Maui Grilled Chicken’s Signature Dish is Quite Delicious

As promised earlier this week, I dropped by Woodland Hills’ newest eating establishment Maui Grilled Chicken for a meal this afternoon.  Owner Julian recommended that I try their #1 – the eponymously named Maui Grilled Chicken. Once ordered chef Yero went to work preparing the dish.  All of the food here is prepared to order, so be prepared to wait a few minutes to be served, or call ahead if it’s for take-out.

Once the food arrived you can immediately tell – if you couldn’t from the menu – that Maui Grilled Chicken’s food definitely has a Persian flair as the meat is cooked on skewers (like the Persian barg dish) and is served with humus, and jasmine rice, etc.  However, I think the similarity there is a bit superficial because the marinated chicken served here was probably the most tender and succulent I’ve ever had – much more so than even at a very good Persian restaurant like Darband in Tarzana.  Maui Grilled Chicken uses no oil, fats, etc. and cooks the chicken in its own natural juices and it really shows as the food is astoundingly light and healthy tasting.  Even the rice tasted light and healthy, the humus was excellently seasoned, and the side salad was delicious.

Overall, Maui Grilled Chicken is a definite winner.  I’d recommend trying the #1 and you’ll see what I mean about how amazing tender and well seasoned the chicken is.

Please also note if you want to stop by this week, you should bring cash as it’s going to be a few more days until they have their credit  card processing machine set up.  MGC is a new restaurant and they are still getting things up to speed.  I’m also told that their website MauiGrilledChicken.com should be up next week.

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Parolee Carted Away But Suspicious Materials Not a Bomb

Well, the big bomb scare in Woodland Hills earlier today turns out to have been nothing too exciting.  KCAL9 writes (also, see the video on their site):

LAPD officers said law enforcement officials were paying a routine visit to a parolee at around 6 a.m. in the 22000 block of Avenida Morelos when they made the discovery.

Detectives were unable to say what the suspicious device looked like, but said that it was tested and determined to not be an explosive.

Sadly for the parolee all the activity probably violated him right back to the pokey, as Daily News writes:

They also refused to identify the parolee, who was taken into custody while they checked whether he was complying with the conditions of his release.

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Woodland Hills Neighborhood Evacuated This Morning – Cops Everywhere

Tanya Peel wrote in this morning with this breaking news:

hey the cops are out in force. my hubby just called and said something about a bomb found… know anything?

Sadly, I was tied to my desk in my Chatsworth-based 8am-4pm command center, and was unable to swoop onto the scene to investigate.  Eventually, a Daily News article emerged which shed some light on the situation:

A Woodland Hills neighborhood was evacuated Thursday after an early-morning check at a parolee’s home uncovered suspicious material that could be explosive, authorities said.

The Los Angeles Police Department’s bomb squad was deployed to the area of Avenida Morelos and Independence Avenue, which was closed to traffic.

“Out of concern for the community, we have set up a perimeter around the location,” LAPD Sgt. McNeill Gardner said.

Those parolees are always up to wacky shennanigans.  You know, like having bomb making laboratories in their homes.

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Is Gaucho Grill Woodland Hills Next on the Chopping Block?

After mentioning their delicious Bleu Cheese Burger in a post yesterday I was reminded about an article a friend sent me regarding the closing of yet another Gaucho Grill.  This time the one in Third Street Promenade bit the dust.  It got me wondering if the one is Woodland Hills is next?

Eater writes:

Yet another Gaucho Grill has called it quits, this time the location to shutter is at the 3rd Street promenade. It’s been a slow melt for the Argentinian grilled meat mini-chain that once had locations citywide in West Hollywood, Pasadena, and Studio City, alas no more. So, that leaves the Brentwood outpost as the lone survivor…for now. [EaterWire]

Apparently Eater doesn’t consider the west valley and Woodland Hills to exist.  But the basic fact remains that Gaucho Grill is probably going bye-bye.  Definitely a bad sign since it appears that they lost their domain name GauchoGrillRestaurant.com to domain poachers.  Pretty embarrassing.

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