Typical Brooklyn deep fried fish platter with greens
There are more than 30 fast-food fried chicken restaurants just within the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Fifteen of those are Crown Fried Chickens, five are Kennedy Fried Chickens. There's also Kentucky Fried and Popeye's Chicken restaurant chains. But Brooklyn is also well-serviced by soul food restaurants, which offer fried chicken, fish, seafood, and even fried Twinkies. Fried food is also trendy for New Yorkers who live in the other boroughs, requiring a long trek over the Brooklyn Bridge or a train ride to get to where the action is.
Brooklyn's Soul Food Fry
Pies and Thighs is in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Specialties include a fried chicken box, a fried catfish box, chicken biscuits, regular biscuits, hush puppies, collard greens and pies. The restaurant has seven different pies on any given day, including tar heel and rhubarb.
ChipShop in Park Slope, Brooklyn, is a fry-lover's heaven. Not only do they fry Twinkies and Mars Bars, but the menu includes deep fried pizza, fried macaroni and cheese, and many varieties of British fish and chips, including cod fish, haddock, plaice, shrimps, scallops, chicken fingers and Myers jumbo sausage.
Mitchell's in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, offers fried chicken, fried catfish, and fried shrimp, as well as fish and chips.
Soule In Clinton, serves up fried ripe plantains, coconut shrimp with apricot duck sauce, deep fried catfish strips with curry pineapple sauce, fried chicken and fried fish, chicken tenders and fried chicken wings. Soule also offers seven different sauces for its fried dishes.
Ruthie's Restaurant in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill neighborhood, serves fried whiting, fried catfish, fried chicken, fried pork chop, fried chicken wings and fried turkey wings.
Five Spot Soul Food in Clinton offers South Carolina southern fried chicken, Virginia cornmeal fried whiting, fatty burgers and a Chesapeake crabby patty.
Brooklyn Fried Foods Under $5
Within North Brooklyn's Bushwick community there is a fried-fish triangle that sells big fish sandwiches for small change. It starts at King Fish Market II at Broadway and Myrtle Avenue which offers three fresh whiting or flounder fillets, breaded and thrown into a deep fryer, then slapped onto white or wheat bread. The patron can choose from huge plastic bottles filled with tartar sauce, ketchup and hot sauce to squirt onto the fish before the chef puts the second piece of bread on top and wraps it all up in waxed paper.
Angel Fish Market on Broadway, towards Gates Avenue, is where a fish sandwich goes for $3. It's made with two whiting fillets, that are so big the two slices of bread can barely hold them Patrons are also encouraged to dress the sandwich themselves.
Brooklyn Fish N Tate on Malcolm X Boulevard is the only one that doesn't double as a fresh fish market. For $4 it offers two massive, crispy fried whiting fillets on two pieces of wheat bread. Customers add the dressings here too.
Brooklyn's Trendy Fried Restaurants
Southern fried chicken and fish restaurants are exploding in Brooklyn. Among the group are Fatty 'Cue in Williamsburg, which calls itself an Asian-fusion barbecue joint.
The Commodore, in Williamsburg, along Metropolitan Avenue, specializes in high church picnic style fried chicken, served with biscuits, a vinegar sauce, and a pot of honey flavored butter.
Seersucker on Smith Street In Boerum Hill, serves tempura-fried catfish, and on Tuesday nights, the chef delivers what he calls a Tennessee fried-chicken dinner, which is two slices of Wonder Bread, a few drizzles of gravy, and three chunks of fried chicken which have been soaked in buttermilk, with seasonings, and a hint of Sichuan pepper.
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