Isn't this a gorgeous sight? There aren't many places that I know of with good fried chicken under ten bucks. Charles' Chicken in Harlem is my favorite in the city, and luckily it's far from my apartment, so I haven't been up there in a long while. Closer to home, I love me some Mama's fried chicken with their cream drenched mashed potatoes. But it's the combination of the chicken and biscuit that I miss from growing up in the South. That's why I've been dying to try, Pies and Thighs. The NYTimes reviewed it a couple of weeks ago, but every time I've tried to go there Sunday after 4, it's been closed. So I smartened up and dragged Josh over there for an early Saturday supper.
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Battered chicken skin was thin, hot, crisp and excellent, and stayed that way for a while -- I don't know what people are griping about. Maybe it wasn't as salty as I'm used to, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Bird was really moist and tender.
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I wanted to love it. I really did. I have profound respect for Allison Vines Rushing as a chef and human being. But based on my lunch today I would have to say the fried chicken at The Dirty Bird is not the word. In fact, it's not even a syllable. Not yet at least. My fried chicken had a layer of breading that was undersalted (or maybe unsalted) and way too thick. All four pieces had the kind of crust that came off when you took a bite. So you end up with clumps of crust and naked chicken flesh. This is not what I want in a great piece of fried chicken. I want that cosmic oneness between skin and crust that I get at Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken in Mason, Tenn
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Foodies like to play “what would you have for your last meal” -- a great game that usually involves your greatest dish ever. Then someone always raises the stakes to a multi-course meal, and inevitably different chefs get to show up to prepare a course each. Best is when a different chef can be assigned components of each plate. What fun, and when I get involved in it I can throw down some amazing courses, progressions, chefs and wines to accompany. Truthfully, though, if I heard, "this is your last meal, what do you want?," I would get fried chicken with fluffy, white, mashed potatoes, and mac and cheese.
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