The chicken trail to North Carolina
Filled with layer cake and with more than an hour drive back to Charlotte, we were unable to get to Price’s Chicken Coop, which Southern food expert John T. Edge says is one of the true gems of the...
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Chez Panisse does fried chicken right
Craig Lee/Chronicle Sometimes fried chicken turns up where you least expect it. Anyone who follows this blog knows I love fried chicken, and that I’m generally disappointed in what I get in the Bay...
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A new home for the best fried chicken in the world
Craig Lee / The Chronicle The next quest: the best fried chicken Every time I write about out-of-town dining adventures, some people who read the blog get impatient after a couple of days. I swore...
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The best fried chicken … so far
Kim Komenich/Chronicle 2001 Fabulous fried chicken can be found at Italian mainstay Casa Orinda. It’s no secret I’m on a quest to find the best fried chicken in the Bay Area. Fried chicken and the Bay...
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Great fried chicken in Napa
Craig Lee/The Chronicle 2007 The latest installment in my pursuit of the Bay Area’s best fried chicken. It seems that each week someone adds a fried chicken night to their repertoire. On my return...
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In My Glass: Namu’s Pu Er-ju
The bar and kitchen at Namu. (Lance Iversen/The Chronicle, 2009) One of the highlights of the Lee brothers’ Richmond haunt is its choice of beverages — a tidy set of wines that, for instance, includes...
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Fried chicken disappointments
The chicken at Stroud's in Fairway, Kansas Dreams shatter easily in Kansas. The difference between satiated expectations and dejection is a crisp crust and an even fry. For more than 30 years I was...
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In search of the best fried chicken
Fried chicken at Pican in Oakland. Lacy Atkins/The San Francisco Chronicle 2009 This week I went on a fried chicken tour. I started with the idea that this is a food that originated in the South among...
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Finding fried chicken in Memphis, Atlanta and Kansas
Fried chicken road tour I’ve done a lot of traveling over the last couple of weeks – to Los Angeles where I had exceptional meals at Ink, Farmshop and Son of a Gun, and then to Kansas, Missouri,...
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Butcher & Cook: Fried chicken and pie pop-up dinners benefit Sonoma charities
Fried chicken awaits / Photo: Butcher & Cook Winner winner chicken dinner. That’s what happens when you put together chef and social advocate John Lyle, rancher and master butcher Berry Salinas,...
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Drums & Crumbs opening Southern style pop-up in San Rafael
Drums & Crumbs fried chicken / Photo Drums & Crumbs Fried chicken is good breakfast food, even without waffles. And so business partners Arthur Chang and Rachel Hundley are opening Drums &...
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Dick Blomster’s Korean Diner expanding to Santa Rosa
The cherished Korean Fried Crack / photo by John Storey Bring on the Korean Fried Crack. A second location of Guerneville’s wildly popular Dick Blomster’s Korean Diner is opening in downtown Santa Rosa...
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Santa Rosa’s Bird & The Bottle to take flight later this month
Mark Stark says Bird & The Bottle will open by month’s end, even if he has to install equipment like the beer taps himself You’ve been craving matzoh ball soup, prepared ramen style. Or perhaps...
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Fried for the Fourth: Our favorite places for fried chicken around the Bay Area
Fried chicken for the Fourth July 4th is almost upon us, and once again our minds wander to summertime eats that are deeply ingrained in our nation’s culinary lexicon. Related Links Sarah Rich taps...
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Inside Sunday Bird, the Fillmore’s new Korean fried chicken joint, hiding in...
Sunday Bird Deuki Hong, the chef who made headlines at Kang Ho Dong Baekjong in New York, is quietly three weeks into his semi-hidden fried chicken pop-up joint in San Francisco, and he said he’s...
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