Krispy Krunchy Chicken

If you’ve ever watched cooking shows on Travel Channel or The Food Network, you’ll know that sometimes, food will pop up in the weirdest places. We’ve seen old gas stations, old firehouses, farms, real gas stations, but never have I seen a restaurant located inside a 99 cent store or Laundromat. Like the old cliché goes, there’s a first time for everything, and boy am I glad for this first time! On several occasions while riding the bus down Holt Ave, I saw a sign for Krispy Krunchy Chicken «Coming Soon» hanging outside a 99 cent store/​Laundromat location.
Based in Louisiana, the company is slowly making its way west. According to Nabeel, the very nice young man working the counter Sunday Morning, this chicken was better than Popeye’s. Some would argue that after eating this chicken, but I have definitely had worse chicken claiming to be Louisiana Style fried chicken. On this visit, Nabeel informed us that the location had barely been open for business for about two days. Oh, if only we had known about its soft opening two days prior!
KKC IS NOT a sit down place! It’s more of a heat lamp station, where they place the food after cooking it fresh in the back of the store. According to Nabeel, it doesn’t sit there long because they usually cook in small batches so that it won’t sit under a heat lamp too long. If you call ahead with enough notice, you can call in a large order for pick up. Nabeel reeled us in by letting us sample a chicken tender. And for the love of God, and I put this on my children, it was probably one of THE BEST chicken tenders I’ve ever eaten. Maybe because it was barely out of the fryer, or maybe because it was injected with a brine they use, but it was moist, juicy and tender inside, and crispy on the outside.
And their biscuits were out of this world too! They are buttermilk biscuits, brushed or damn near drowned in a yummy, sticky, sweet honey butter glaze that just melted in our mouths. I liked these biscuits because to me, they felt like they were barely mixed enough to have all the ingredients blended together and they were baked to the point that if it was a minute or two earlier, they might be undercooked. Except they weren’t! Like Popeye’s, they make other things like catfish and po boy’s and jambalaya, so it will be interesting to come back to taste everything else. A+ for letting us try stuff before buying. And one more thing that I thought was cool… the to go boxes they put the chicken in look like the little red barn in the logo!