As anyone who has packed some for a picnic can attest, fried chicken travels well. So it’s an excellent choice for takeout and delivery. Across the city, you can find fried chicken everywhere from chains to high-end restaurants. The majority are American, especially Southern-style, but there are also dishes from South Korean, Japanese and European spots, among others. Personally, I have always preferred to let others make my fried chicken, so I can avoid dealing with the clouds of flour, bowls of batter and pans and vats of fat or oil in my kitchen. Here is a selection of the scores of places that prepare fried chicken to go, for contactless takeout and delivery.
Manhattan
Amy Ruth’s
This long-established restaurant is celebrated for Southern chicken and waffles.
113 West 116th Street (Lenox Avenue), 212-280-8779, amyruths.com.
The Beatrice Inn
Though this restaurant is best known for steaks, its fried chicken, brined, then crisped and served with spiced honey, is also noteworthy and available for takeout and delivery ($16).
285 West 12th Street (West Fourth Street), 212-675-2808, thebeatriceinn.com.
Charles Pan Fried Chicken
This venerable Harlem storefront, a celebrity magnet, is home base for Charles Gabriel and his lovingly pan-fried Southern chicken.
2461 Eighth Avenue (Frederick Douglass Boulevard at 132nd Street), 212-281-1800.
Cote Korean Steakhouse
Korean fried chicken chains pepper the city and its suburbs. For an uncommon taste, this restaurant offers an appetizer of sweet and tangy fried chicken nuggets that come glazed with gochujang. It shares the menu with assorted steaks and Korean specialties.
16 West 22nd Street, 212-401-7986, cotenyc.com.
Hall
Japanese-style karaage fried chicken from the chef Hiroki Odo at this spot is marinated in soy sauce, ginger and garlic before being fried in a cornstarch batter. Some of the proceeds are being donated to the James Beard Foundation’s Covid-19 Relief Fund.
17 West 20th Street, no phone, hall.nyc.
Hill Country Barbecue Market
This Texas barbecue specialist is offering several fried chicken sandwiches, including one that’s dipped in hot honey. Full chicken dinners are available on Sunday evenings.
30 West 26th Street, 212-255-4544, hillcountry.com.
Jacob’s Pickles
This Upper West Side tavern specializes in biscuits, pickles and fried chicken with Southern fixings. There’s a platter and several overstuffed sandwiches on tender biscuits.
509 Amsterdam Avenue (85th Street), 212-470-5566, jacob.picklehospitality.com.
The Ribbon
Of the 26 restaurants in the group from Bruce and Eric Bromberg, this Upper West Side location is the only one that’s open for takeout and delivery. Crisply fried chicken, served only Sundays and Mondays in normal times, is now available daily.
20 West 72nd Street, 212-787-5656, theribbonnyc.com.
Wayan
Cedric and Ochi Vongerichten’s take on Indonesian food includes yellow chicken, fried and served with lemongrass-coconut sauce. It’s available for pickup and delivery. While you’re at it, add some of the restaurant’s irresistibly crunchy corn fritters to your order.
20 Spring Street (Elizabeth Street), 917-261-4388, wayan-nyc.com.
Bronx
Paula’s Soul Food Café
Fried fish and shrimp are the specialties at this Southern cafe, but there’s also crisp fried chicken, along with other styles of chicken. All come with two sides.
746 East 233rd Street (White Plains Road), Wakefield, 718-655-1022; also 331 Main Street, (Wilson Street), Hackensack, N.J., 201-880-6888; paulasoulfood.com.
Brooklyn
Morgan’s Brooklyn Barbecue
This rough-hewn joint assembles fried chicken sandwiches and crisp fried chicken platters with embellishments like collards, cornbread, and mac and cheese, along with the usual suspects from the smoker.
267 Flatbush Avenue (St. Marks Avenue), Prospect Heights, 718-622-2224, morgansbrooklynbarbecue.com.
Peaches HotHouse
Fried chicken comes regular, hot or extra hot, and also in a sandwich.
415 Tompkins Avenue (Hancock Street), Bedford-Stuyvesant, 718-483-9111, bcrestaurantgroup.com.
Pies ‘n’ Thighs
Southern-fried chicken with waffles or biscuits are sold by the portion or by the bucket. The bucket is also available to donate to hospital workers.
166 South Fourth Street (Driggs Avenue), Williamsburg, 347-529-6090, piesnthighs.com.
Redcrest Fried Chicken
This Philadelphia import, reopening on Friday, specializes in Southern fried chicken, sold whole or by the quarter, with biscuits. Sandwiches are made with red curry mayonnaise or with pickled jalapeños and charred jalapeño mayonnaise.
235 Menahan Street (Myrtle Avenue), Bushwick, 347-295-3229, redcrestfriedchicken.com.
Queens
Adda Indian Canteen
This highly regarded Indian restaurant (two stars from Pete Wells in The New York Times) is offering takeout and delivery from 5 to 9 p.m. They just added their masala fried chicken with garam masala, dried mango and fried potato wedges to their abbreviated pandemic menu.
31-31 Thompson Avenue (Queens Boulevard), Long Island City, 718-433-3888, addanyc.com.
The Freakin Rican
Fried chicken might not come to mind when thinking of Puerto Rican cuisine, but these deeply crisped boneless dark meat chunks, called chicharron de pollo, can outclass most nuggets.
43-06 34th Avenue (43rd Street), Astoria, 929-349-1080, thefreakinricanrestaurant.com.
