Scrumptious Honey Butter Fried Chicken A Detroit Pop-Up

DETROIT, MI — If you’ve been craving fried chicken from Honey Butter Fried Chicken — the famous Chicago area restaurant that has been chewed out (in a good way) on “The Chew,” earned the Chicago Tribune’s award for the best fried chicken in a city that takes fried chicken seriously and was called salaciously good when topped on a waffle by Serious Eats — start priming your palate. And you won’t have to drive to Chicago to gt it.

The acclaimed chicken is coming to Detroit as a pop-up next month. Chefs and owners Christine Cikowski and Joshua Kulp, who discovered by accident that honey butter and fried chicken is a scrumptious combination, will offer some of their best brunch menu items at the Russell Street Deli, 2465 Russell St., on April 22.

Then, on April 23, they’ll team with Grey Ghost, 47 Watson St., for a five-course dinner, The Detroit News reported.

Honey Butter Fried Chicken gets its chicken from Miller Amish Farms in Indiana, where the birds are “humanely raised” and “antibiotic free,” according to its website. Side dishes feature ingredients from small farmers, and like-minded local businesses that share the founders’ values.

The accident behind the Honey Butter Fried Chicken occurred when a cook put honey butter on the chicken, Cikowski told “The Chew.”

“We all freaked out because it was the most delicious flavor combination of all time.
Serious Eats said “the only way to make honey butter-slathered fried chicken more salacious is by heaping it over a plate of challah French toast.”

And the Chicago Tribune said in its 2014 review of the city’s best restaurants that the Avondale fast casual restaurant, which “evolved their roving underground Sunday Dinners into a wholly original concept: a line up, sit-down brick-and-mortar serving boutique picnic food,” was the hands-down winner in the chicken category.

» For more on the Detroit pop-ups, go to The Detroit News.

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