Chickadee Chick?

So Chickadee Chick has finally opened. I saw a bunch of people out side of there. I was wondering if anyone has tried it out yet...

Thoughts?

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.

where is it?

How were the prices?

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.

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

Ooh, I have been waiting for them to open. Two of my favorite things, frozen custard and chicken!

pokersloper wrote: where is it?

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

Sounds like a name for a girlie store.

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.

Pricey. Whole chicken for $11.95 (they say it's free-range), compared to El Pollo, where it's $9.50 and Key Food where it's in the 5-6 dollar range.

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?

11.95 is cooked...I guess, as someone who doesn't care if its free range, that just sounds like insanity (since a regular roaster is less than $3.50)

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.

I think its a fair price for a free-range, antibiotic free chicken. Its hard to come by a rotisserie restaurant that makes the better quality chickens. D'agostinos used to sell the Murray's ones for @ $9, and that was few years back.

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.

1st_Streeter wrote: Pricey. Whole chicken for $11.95 (they say it's free-range), compared to El Pollo, where it's $9.50 and Key Food where it's in the 5-6 dollar range.

Get your chickens at Gran Castillo De Jagua - hands down the best I've had in Prospect Heights/Park Slope.

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.

Just picked up an order tonight. Strangely, they told me I was lucky that I called in because they ran out of chicken. Yes a place called Chick-A-Dee-Chick was out of bird by 7pm. Go figure. We had a half chicken, which I might not call stringy, but maybe a little tough... those free range chickens get to walk around a bit no?
The Asian salad was lame, the coleslaw was out of a tub and wings were kinda bland.

I'll give them another try in a few weeks to see f they've worked out the kinks.

BTW, they told me that the space next-door will be a Wine/Tapas bar.

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.

Chocolate custard=yum. I haven't had frozen custard in a very long time and I don't remember it well enough to compare, but this had a great texture.

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.

There was a sign in the shop to the effect that the "frozen custard" is a mix of soft serve ice cream and regular ice cream.

In Western NY there is a chain of frozen custard shops called "Abbots" (http://www.abbottscustard.com/Abbotts_Custard.html). As I recall, they used to explain that the difference between ice cream and frozen custard is that the latter contains egg. Whatever the "secret ingredient" may be, the texture is quite unique; it has far more body than does ice cream.

So while the stuff at Chickadee Chick was tasty, to me it wasn't really custard.

second Abbotts!!

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