The LA Times had a great article on Zankou Chicken today, a chain of which OC has a solitary branch in Anaheim.
Almost everyone who's fouled up their breaths with Zankou's toum (garlic sauce) knows how this Armenian chicken chain was cemented into legendary status by Chowhounds, critics, Zagat and a song by Beck; but I assuming not everyone has heard the whole story, which includes a tragic tale of murder-suicide.
I knew very little about the fatal chain of events that rocked the family-owned business years ago, but this latest article brings the whole sad and sordid tale of success, violence and tasty rotisserie chicken into sharp focus.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.