Root & Bone: the most ambitious chicken in recent years
Fried chicken makes your life happier. It is a fact. Good fried chicken the way they fry it in the American South “makes your life better” . And if you have laughed when reading this great truth, it is that you have not tried it. And you should. In New York they have already surrendered to its crispy layer of flour and its intense flavor achieved after macerating it, many times, more than 24 hours.
** ROOT & BONE **
“The most ambitious chicken in recent years” New York gastronomy gurus have come to call the recipe of the two young chefs, Top Chef alumni , Janine Booth and Jeff McInnis. They buy the birds from the Amish of Pennsylvania (the community with which Harrison Ford hid in Witness), they macerate it for 24 hours in sweet tea, onion and garlic and then they fry it, well fried and sprinkle it with dehydrated lemon. Are you salivating? Well, you know. Book for your next trip. A good reason to buy you a flight to New York.
Two Top Chef alumni succeed at Root & Bone
THE COMMODORE
for 12 dollars , less than 10 euros, a dish of southern essence: three pieces of fried chicken, less seasoned than Root & Bone, but just as crunchy and rich ; biscuits and butter, in case you were still missing a calorie. His chef, Stephen Tanner, is the one New York owes this newfound devotion to fried chicken. The store? Pure illustrated hipsterism , eating with your hands, in the less mainstream part of Williamsburg .
MONTANA'S TRAIL HOUSE
The Fried Chicken Kings of Bushwick . Montana Masback, his owner, bought an old barn from Kentucky and moved it into the old mechanic garage where he rode this bar-restaurant-hut-absolutely-yankee where you are going to eat your plate of fried chicken, yes, with kale salad… to degrease.
Montana's Trail House: Bushwick's Fried Chicken Kings
FEET 'N' THIGS
Pies and thighs . It's all you need for a (poorly) balanced but happy diet. Its three chefs, Erika Geldzahler-Williams, Carolyn Bane Ross-Leutwyler and Sarah Buck, have brought to Williamsburg the best southern cuisine you can eat in proportionate or disproportionate amounts (a cube with 16 pieces) . The success has led them to soon open a new location in Manhattan.
At Pies 'n' Thighs you'll also find waffle fried chicken
COMFORT QUEENS
Possibly the restaurant with the most faithful in Astoria . The only one people are willing to queue for. It is what causes your fried chicken with waffles (and any other dish from their “American folk soul food” menu), a claim for breakfast at any time of the day , surrounded by film and television memorabilia from the eighties and nineties. From E.T. a terminator . You become a fan of the site at first glance. They do have a policy of byob (bring your own bottle) : if you want alcohol, you bring it on.
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