But you can also go off menu with an espresso martini or a mezcal sour. Meanwhile, Rotisserie’s cocktails are fantastic and good value – it was at Rotisserie that I discovered the Boulevardier (a whisky-vermouth-Campari combo that I’m currently addicted to). And the ranch dressing was a nice touch, too. Mr Foodie says it’s a travesty that it was off-the-bone chicken thighs cut into slices, but from a practical perspective it worked perfectly. Said chicken has a wonderfully savoury, moreish, crispy coating. It has a handy sheltered terrace, but the inside is cosy as well – so you’ve got fried chicken covered in both summer and winter. Just down the road from Gangnam Chicken on Beukenplein, you’ll find Rotisserie East (there’s also a Rotisserie West on De Clercqstraat). I also loved their kimchi! Korean fried chicken from Gangnam Chicken Fried chicken and cocktails: Rotisserie They offer three sauces, all of which were a bit sweet for my taste, but the Korean pepper sauce was at least moderately spicy. And the small format (drumettes, wings or boneless) means that there’s plenty of surface area for the coating to cover. The crispiness apparently comes from the fact that Gangnam Chicken’s wings are double-coated-and-fried. I’d wanted to eat inside (which is only possible at the branch in West) but at the last moment it was pouring with rain so we ended up getting takeaway from the Oost location.
Possibly the crispiest of the bunch was Gangnam Chicken – now with two locations, in West and Oost respectively. Chips and mayo, anyone? Korean fried chicken: Gangnam Chicken The side dishes – regular fries, sweet potato fries and corn on the cob – were all pretty decent, but again could have come with some sauces. But why wasn’t there more of it? We ordered over €30 in chicken and only received one tiny pot of the spicy gold. The star of the show, however, has to be Naskip’s Surinamese hot sauce – which is fiercely spicy yet fruity from (I assume) the Madame Jeanette chilli peppers.
Chicken biscuit full#
We tried their fillet strips, wings and a few larger, bone-in pieces, and all were moist and full of flavour with a perfectly crispy coating. Kip It Real has got My Next Hangover written all over it… Fried chicken every which way from Kip It Real Surinamese fried chicken: Naskipįor something even spicier, head to Dapperstraat and pay a visit to Naskip. My favourites were the aforementioned real hot, homemade ranch, and something sweet and spicy that might have been peach-habanero. The wings were equally good – coated in a buttermilk jacket and deep-fried to crispy perfection, served with a range of different sauces. But it definitely hit the spot, especially with the addition of some homemade “real hot” sauce. We tried the “Burner” – aka Nashville hot chicken (a favourite of mine from time spent in Tennessee) – which was a spicy, crispy-fried chicken thigh on a heavily calorific bun (I’m assuming it had been dunked in butter) with pickles and mayo. Think a range of chicken wings and chicken sandwiches, as well as various larger plates and sides. In 2020, the people who brought us Box Sociaal came out with Kip It Real – a good old-fashioned chicken bar. Biscuit Baby: the best southern fried chicken in Amsterdam Nashville hot chicken: Kip It Real The waffle fries with ranch dressing are also the real deal – these guys can do no wrong. Impressively, the biscuits are pillowy soft but don’t fall apart the minute you bite into them. Because Biscuit Baby is in the business of southern fried chicken, most menu items come with biscuits – which are self-explanatory if you’re American and are like savoury scones if you’re everyone else. It also comes with hot honey, which is just the bomb. The chicken itself is moist and succulent, with a lightly fried coating and a fabulously hot spice mix applied to it if that’s your thing (it’s completely optional but highly recommended). I had to start with Biscuit Baby, because theirs was hands-down the best fried chicken I’ve ever tasted in Amsterdam. ‘Cause these places are all finger lickin’.
But fried chicken is having a moment in Amsterdam, and who am I to count calories when there’s serious research to be done? Whether you like your fried chicken hot or sweet, with biscuits or booze, there’s a kip joint in Amsterdam that’s got your name on it. Much like my recent piece about tacos in Amsterdam, this article wouldn’t have been possible to write even just a couple of years ago.
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