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Three Chicken Dishes to Experience in N.Y.C.The New York Times’s Food contributor Luke Fortney tried as many experiential chickens dishes as he could handle. These three are winner-winners.
I went searching for the best chickens around town, ones that were as much about the taste as the experience. There are a couple of restaurants now that sell quote unquote, “butter chicken experience,” but the one in Musaafer in TriBeCa is my favorite. For $42, you get two flavors of butter chicken. There’s a more classic tomato-based curry. It’s sweet and intensely smoky and then you get this second grayish-green sauce. One of my favorite parts about the restaurant is just how many types of bread they serve. Just perfect for wiping up the bowl. My pinball game is God awful, but Scrappleland is one of my new favorite places to eat Korean fried chicken. It’s slightly battered with these deep, crunchy ridges, and you can eat it however you want — on a sandwich with radish and kimchi in these cartoonishly large drumsticks, or coated in all sorts of sticky sauces. I guess time will tell how the pinball machines handle the sticky fingers. The most fun I’ve had eating chicken was at Kono, a yakitori restaurant in Chinatown. The chef at sushi Kono has this gift where he can serve chicken for three hours straight without anyone getting sick of it. The tasting menu is $175. We had fried-chicken skin that crunched like pork rinds. We had belly meat that tasted like teriyaki and the most soft, charred chicken feet. The chicken theme runs right through dessert — this decadent, otherworldly black sugar crème brulée. And of course, it’s baked with eggs. Where should I go next?
The New York Times’s Food contributor Luke Fortney tried as many experiential chickens dishes as he could handle. These three are winner-winners.
By Nyt Food
October 27, 2025