First taste of Gus’s Fried Chicken

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Doug Miner
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The 2-piece dark meat plate, Sunday at the Maplewood Gus's Fried Chicken.

Gus’s Fried Chicken will open in Maplewood (7434 Manchester Road) on Tuesday, Dec. 8 at 11 a.m. At a family and friends serving on Sunday, several Maplewood business owners, including 40 South News, got a first taste.

The chicken is lightly battered, very moist, a little spicy. Several Gus’s folks were here from Memphis for the opening — Gus’s owner herself was in the Maplewood kitchen frying the chicken.

The fried greed tomatoes and fried okra sides were tasty, so was the pecan pie. Our server, from around the corner off Marshall Avenue, was friendly and prompt.

The 2-piece dark meat plate, Sunday at the Maplewood Gus's Fried Chicken.
The 2-piece dark meat plate, Sunday at the Maplewood Gus’s Fried Chicken.

 

A Gus’s Fried Chicken opened recently in the Chicago Loop. Below are photos and reviews from Twitter from Chicago.

https://storify.com/dougminer1/fried-chicken

3 COMMENTS

  1. Paper plates are not necessarily more “green” than styrofoam. Most paper plates these days are covered in a wax coating that requires more than 20 years to decompose in a landfill. Used paper plates aren’t any more recyclable than styrofoam. You could double or triple the number of landfills in the US and it still pales in comparison to the problem of deforestation. Paper products are not the end all be all of green environmentalism that many people think.

  2. If you’re going to serve non-washable plates, cups and flatware, at least make them bio-degradable. Sheesh. Welcome to 1975.

    • I agree, as the first green business district it would be nice if we weren’t still serving in Styrofoam. I’d take paper plates any day.

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