The Best Fried Chicken in New Orleans

An establishment on North Broad Street, New Orleans, LA

As many people know, New Orleans has become the largest city in America that does not have a daily hometown hardcopy newspaper.   The venerable Times-Picayune is published three times a week for those of us who want to read Monday's comic strips on Wednesday mornings.  

The Times-Picayune Company, or whatever the corporate parent chooses to call itself nowadays, is concentrating on providing online content, thinking it is more profitable.  It is nice work if you can get it.

According to nola.com, the real time updated news site that people without a computer are supposed to read every day, La Belle Esplanade is right in the middle of a verifiably tasty fried chicken zone.  Except for Jaques-Imo's Cafe, which is located in Carrollton, the best fried chicken in New Orleans is located within walking distance, in several directions, from La Belle Esplanade bed and breakfast.  

Willie Mae's Scotch House on North Tonti Street is heralded by the Food Network as serving the best fried chicken in America.  Dooky Chase's is another block, or about another two minutes walk from our front door.  Li'l Dizzy's is just down our street, on Esplanade Avenue.  McHardy's is on North Broad Street, about a football field's length away as the pelican flies, a little bit farther following Bayou Road and taking a left toward Uptown.  Why has nola.com neglected to mention McKenzie's Chicken-in-a-Box in Gentilly?  Probably because it is too far a walk from La Belle Esplanade.    

If you want to tour New Orleans celebrated fried chicken establishments, we know the perfect inn to serve as your headquarters.  When you eat in New Orleans, you never go hungry.  Frau Schmitt believes that a good day starts off with a good breakfast.  For dinner, she recommends fried chicken in our neighborhood.  She is right about this, as she is about most things.  Critics agree.

Some people who live in St. Bernard Parish say they drive to the corner of Esplanade Avenue and North Claiborne just to pick up a large sack of Manchu fried chicken wings.  You can eat your fill of fried chicken without walking more than six blocks from a very picturesque and historic bed and breakfast in New Orleans.  You can do a lot of other things, too.  Just ask.  New Orleans is full of delights.

A votre sante.