This is literally the only chicken I can get easily. I often get it with the dirty rice and lie to my wife. I hate that Popeyes is my only choice for good chicken. This is how bad NYC sucks!
Popeyes Chicken in NYC
- Thread starter BluegrassPoke
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I love me some Popeye's. There isn't one here in town and seeing it in the Vegas airport recently was a pleasant stop for the wife and I. Plus, they must've brought back my favorite sauce, Sweet Heat, since I moved. I got as much as they would give me.
Have a Popeye's within 1/2 mile of my home and work. Used to go there a lot, but the last few times, it has seemed like the food was cooked about 3+ hours before I picked it up. Haven't been there in a long time now.
There are 2 on 6th Ave in Manhattan and one in no where Long Island. Popeyes is like every other mile in NYC.
I've never been in a Popeye's were the employees moved faster than one quarter speed. They are like sloths dressed on human meat sacks
The Commodore - Brooklyn
Bobwhite - East Village
BonChon (or Bon Chung maybe?) - 5th Avenue (I think) in Manhattan, this a Korean Fried Chicken place
Bobwhite - East Village
BonChon (or Bon Chung maybe?) - 5th Avenue (I think) in Manhattan, this a Korean Fried Chicken place
NYC has great ethnic food but as for southern fried chicken, just about non existent. Gus's Fried Chicken is my gold standard. Southern Fried Chicken, BBQ and Tex Mex all suck in NYC.
Ever been anywhere up in Harlem? The places I listed all blow Popeye's clean out of the water.
Yes Harlem is a community in transition but the people that live there are not from the south. Popeyes sucks but by far the biggest presence in NYC. Also logistics in NYC is a *****. If a place is not easy to get to via the subway good luck. Parking is impossible. Visiting NYC and living in NYC are 2 very different things.
Yes, a quite a few people who run restaurants are from the south originally. At least some of them.
If you aren't driving you own vehicle, what does it matter whether you live there or are visiting? The places listed above are all pretty easy to get to.
No offense but this is Said like a visitor. I live in Queens. If I want to drive to Manhattan I would pay $36 in tolls and $70-$100 to park. So I never drive to Manhattan, ever. I can drive 7 miles to Brooklyn and it will take me 2 hours one way. I get on my subway line and it takes me 37-45 minutes to get to midtown or upper east side. Sucks at rush hour.
Yeah, I've been to more bad ones than good. The best one I've been to is on an Air Force base, maybe it's better because an independent party handles the staffing. The Tuesday special is a pretty solid value, regardless.
There's a "Kennedy Fried Chicken" in Flushing near Linden Ave that cracks me up every time I visit the in-laws because it's the same color, font, and interior of a late-80s KFC. Maybe it's a hidden gem (I'm sure that it's not a hidden gem).
Queens is a subset of NYC. I didn't say it wasn't NYC; just pointing out that you didn't say earlier that you were limiting your quest to just Queens.
I am not limiting anything. Hell I drive to Jersey just to get cheaper booze, Sonic and chain Tex mex. Queens is the most diverse place in the US. What really sucks is that I am charged a 6.35% NYC income tax just because I live in NYC and there are no deductions. Queens is the largest and most populated boro. Laguardia, JFK, Citi Field and the USTA are all in This dirty *** place.
The news here says Queens but when you google it is says Brooklyn. Fake news. Lol.