Chicken a la CiUDAD

The Chicken Milanesa was the best dish at CiUDAD, a Latin American fusion restaurant Diane and I used to go to even though we totally could not afford it. The key to the dish was the roasted garlic-ancho sauce. We tried to reverse engineer it several times when we lived in LA, but never came up with something quite like it. Years later, long after CiUDAD had closed, I contacted the manager of the restaurant that had replaced CiUDAD—it was a long-shot but I thought maybe they would at least have some information on the dishes of the former restaurant (which had been owned by the same owners as the new restaurant.)

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