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Best Fried Chicken

Creative Loafing has been presenting Atlanta’s Best People, Places and Events since 1972. These are some of the past winners for this category:

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Gus’s Fried Chicken

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

The Colonnade (Where to Eat Recommendation)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2018
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Oral Pleasures » Critics Pick

Alluvia restaurant

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2018
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2018 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Hattie B’s Hot Chicken

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2017
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2017 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Matthews Cafeteria

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Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2016
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Oral Pleasures » Critics Pick

Busy Bee Cafe (Where to Eat Recommendation)

Crunch through the salty, crackly crust of BUSY BEE CAFÉ’s famous fried chicken to reveal a trove of juicy meat thanks to the restaurant’s top-secret brining process. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2016
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2016 » Oral Pleasures » Reader’s Pick

South City Kitchen Buckhead

And other metro Atlanta locations.

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2015
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2015 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

The Colonnade (Where to Eat Recommendation)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2015
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2015 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

The Colonnade (Where to Eat Recommendation)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2014
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2014 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2013
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2013 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

The Colonnade (Where to Eat Recommendation)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2012
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2012 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2011
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2011 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Currently in the process of relocating to a new location.

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2010
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2010 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Runner-up: Colonnade Restaurant

1879 Cheshire Bridge Road, 404-874-5642, www.colonnadeatl.com

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Runner-up
South City Kitchen
1144 Crescent Ave., 404-873-7358
1675 Cumberland Parkway, Smyrna, 770-435-0700
www.southcitykitchen.com

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2009
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2009 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2008
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2008 » Oral Pleasures » Critics Pick

Busy Bee Cafe (Where to Eat Recommendation)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2007
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2007 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2006
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2006 » Oral Pleasures » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2005
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Consumer Culture » Readers Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

Best Fried Chicken BOA Award Winner

Year » 2005
Section » Print Features » Special Issue » Best of Atlanta » 2005 » Oral Pleasures » Critics Pick

Watershed on Peachtree (Permanently Closed)

We might as well retire this category &#151; at least until WATERSHED stops offering its Tuesday night fried chicken special (which we pray won&#146;t be anytime soon). Who else will ever possibly win? Executive chef Scott Peacock&#146;s signature dish is a masterwork of Southern tradition developed with his mentor, Edna Lewis. The bird is brined, soaked in buttermilk and then fried in lard that has been flavored with bacon. With mashed taters, garlicky green beans and biscuits with honey, it&#146;s Dixie on a plate, y&#146;all. Just remember to show up by 8 p.m. before they run out. less...