Crown Fried Chicken

[jmbrightman]

I was on the 7200 block of Germantown Ave visiting a customer, needed change for the meter, stomach started rumbling when I entered the store....so I ordered 2 pieces fried chicken with fries. it was only 11AM, but the scent had me hooked. the chicken was very good (leg and thigh), the fries excellent...has anyone tried the ribs? is the quality consistent across the many locations?

[mrbigjas]

i love crown fried chicken. as marge simpson once said, you might say the extra ingredient is salt.

a couple years ago we were watching the mummers down on south broad street and i got kinda hungry, so i turned around and right there at broad & ellsworth was a crown. got the two-piece with fries and it was ridiculously hot and damn good. and that's my best crown fried chicken memory.

edited to say there's actually a website some folks put up at http://www.crownfriedchicken.com . it's not an official site, but more like a fansite. and they have a bulletin board, which i find kinda hilarious but some people may think is just stupid. also, if you REALLY like it, they're introducing yourname@crownfriedchicken.com email addresses soon.

Edited October 22, 2005 by mrbigjas (log)

[Holly Moore]

I'm a fan of Crown too, though I wish it was more consistant. The place at Broad and Elsworth is my local store. Sometimes their chicken is fantastic. Other times it has been sitting around under the heat lamp for an hour or more and is dried out and tough.

But when it is fresh out of the fryer, for down home fried chicken above the Mason Dixon Line and away from the land of chicken fried steak and macaroni and cheese as a vegetable, Crown is some of the best fried chicken going.*

*(This paragraph dedicated to kpurvis and Mayhaw Man)

[MarketStEl]

Crown Fried Chicken has fans all over--even in the Ivy League.

We ran a photo of a few of them at Commencement 2001 in the Penn Current.

I've been to the Broad and Ellsworth store on a few occasions--relatives of my roommate own a bar one block west at 15th. (One of the better hoagie shops in the city, Melino's, is cater-corner from the bar.)

Their chicken is yummy. I seem to recall that it's pressure-fried.

I take it from the fan site that the various CFC locations are independent stores and not franchises?

[shacke]

Crown Fried Chicken has fans all over--even in the Ivy League.

We ran a photo of a few of them at Commencement 2001 in the Penn Current.

I've been to the Broad and Ellsworth store on a few occasions--relatives of my roommate own a bar one block west at 15th.  (One of the better hoagie shops in the city, Melino's, is cater-corner from the bar.)

Their chicken is yummy.  I seem to recall that it's pressure-fried.

I take it from the fan site that the various CFC locations are independent stores and not franchises?

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I have heard the praises of CFC and I frequently eye the shop on 40th and market on my way into Penn.

Evan

[MarketStEl]

I have heard the praises of CFC and I frequently eye the shop on 40th and market on my way into Penn.

Evan

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The proprietors of CrownFriedChicken.com are unaware of the existence of this location.

I have informed them of the omission.