Chickadee Chick?

Tried it. Not bad. Good chicken sandwich, corn on a stick is cool. Wings ok.

Horrifically slow though. Guess they're not ready for the crowd yet. They're going to popular I think.

How were the prices?

frozen custard?
If it's good (and, er, real) that might be exciting...

pokersloper wrote: where is it?

7th Avenue between 1st and Garfield - occupying part of the space that the Peruvian-Japanese restaurant vacated.

Carmen wrote: So I walked by this a few minutes ago and the menu seems really unimpressive. One chicken sandwich for $6 or $6.50 and then various roasted chickens and two kinds of custard. Not exciting.

At these kinds of places, whole chickens, or parts thereof are generally a much better deal than sandwiches. I can't wait to try it.

is $11.95 cooked? if it's not cooked i agree it might be high, but if that's actually a free-range chicken and it's already cooked for you, $11.95 seems pretty fair. (depends on the size, of course.)

is the key food price for just any chicken or for a comparable bird?

sure -- i'm not saying that price will necessarily fare well in the market, just that it doesn't seem wholly crazy if it's actually a fancy chicken, given that i can't ever think of having bought one for less than $8. there are better* and worse** free-range chickens, but in general they taste better (imo) than standard ones.


*the bobo ones!
**the one we ate last night. ugh. never buying that brand again.

just got a half chicken. Chicken was stringy, I've had better chickens from super markets. It also seemed like a small amount for half a chicken, but they served it in three pieces so I'm not sure. I won't be going back there again.

just walked by and it was pretty packed.

it's nice to see people sitting outside the place too...it adds some more vibrancy to 7th avenue, which is always a great thing on a strip with so many banks, cell phone stores and such.

look forward to trying the food this week.

has anyone else heard that the rest of the hanabi space is supposed to become a wine bar? i haven't seen much action on that portion of the space lately, but i think that would be great up in this part of the slope.

it was just ok. they ran out of chicken but had chicken sandwiches so that iswhat i got. menu said lettuce, tomato, onions. i got lettuce, some extremely thin and tasteless tomato slices and a sparse smattering of shredded carrots (?). onion nowhere to be found. unfortunately i was home by discovery time. i really like onion.
kinda funny that anyone still complains about prices on 7th ave with the gargantuan rents.
oh and the 6 school desks out front look dreadful.
how they will make it i cannot say.

Don't assume "free range" has anything to do with a higher quality chicken or even a humanely raised, clucking-across-beautiful-meadows-in-golden-sunlight kind of chicken. Unfortunately, as often happens when big industry steps in, the term is almost meaningless at this point. These birds could be from a factory farm just like any other except there may be "access" to outside space - meaning there might be a little door in the enormous chicken shed that is sometimes open but rarely ever used. Without knowing specifics about suppliers, it's impossible to know what kind of chicken you're getting.

I'm sure businesses in Park Slope wouldn't dare do anything underhanded to appeal to the neighborhood and charge premium prices - but let's just say I remain slightly suspicious.

second Abbotts!!

They were single handedly responsible for my annual, 5-pound, summer weight gain...