Welcome to the cult. Gotta love them biscuits!

I agree about what Seattle considers spicy - sometimes I have had to remind restaurants that I was born in Texas to get them to give me a really spicy dish here.

Your 5 is my 2.

Mmmmmmmmm--Ezell's is the best. For a fancier fried chicken dish, try Kingfish. It's awesome.

ew.

Ezells stinks! It stinks up the 48 bus whenever the bus stops at the stop right there, and sometimes people get on the bus with their stinky chicken and stink the whole stinking bus up. STINKY!!!

It took me forever to "finally make it over to Ezell's" but I've been a loyal junkie addict chicken slut ever since. "Gimme some Ezell's mannnnnn, I'll suck yo dick!"

good work, jonathan. you are now officially a resident of seattle.

although, you really gotta try the fried chicken from the mini mart next door to redwood. according to mark mitchell, an expert and authority on the subject, it is the best cluck in seattle.

I was pretty surprised, you know with all the CD, CD, CD! in association with Ezell's, to run across the one on the sleepy of Edmonds/Lynnwood at 196th.

Oprah has Ezell's chicken FedExed directly to her mouth. Personally, I have long had a strange fantasy about sleeping—at least a nap—with my head on a pillow of Ezell's rolls. Hell, maybe on a whole roll-mattress.

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I wish the UW Ezell's never closed. They need to open one in Ballard. The only choices for fried chicken I have are QFC, Safeway,and KFC.

I meant to add, Ezell's is the only place I have found gizzards, which I love.

Hey Boyd, the smell of fried chicken emitted from Ezell's is heaven.

junkie - If that's the case, I'm glad I'm going to hell.

boyd, that's where you vegetarians belong.

The Ezell's in Edmonds, while still good, really can't hold a candle to the one in Seattle.

I know a couple of gas station-type delis that have great fried chicken, especially if you get it before it has been petrified in the warming case, but I ain't telling y'all where, cuz I don't want any competitors for my grease fix!

Cluck is a serious matter, so I should clarify a bit what Kerri mentioned up there --

The chicken at the corner store next to Redwood is amazing when you get it fresh. I think he does two batches a day. No sides, no nothin', but world-class cluck. Also, the chicken man gets really happy when you tell him how good it is, so that is a bonus. Ezell's spicy chicken is as good, more dependable, and the sides and desserts are fantastic. You can't really go wrong there. But the corner store is just two blocks from my house, so that's where I go most often.

Hey, that's where I got dinner last night too!
I think I figured out the secret to the rolls.
They taste EXACTLY like the Hum-bao dough from House of Hong.
Somebody get on that.

I used to live near the Ezell's in Edmonds and their awkward, preaching reader-board messages,

e.g.:

Love God
Family
Order Take Out Chicken
Pies

...made me vow to never set foot inside. But Christians, go for it--make sure to eat as much artery-clogging crap as you can every day (just in case there's no fast food in heaven, you know).

I've never been to Ezell's, so I guess I don't really live here yet...

Ezel's also has locations in Skyway and Woodinville!

Dan, you live here but your heart's in New York.

Y'all is crazy, ya know? You too William in Seattle with yo regional arrogance crap. Put yo spice on 'dis, foo'!

AKH@19: I've always assumed that meant they only wanted monotheists for customers. I don't qualify, and they don't want my money.

Oh, and try the BBQ at that place along the beach in the parks between Madrona and Seward Park - yum! Can even get collard greens and grits! My ex-girlfriend and I stopped there last summer and it was FINE!

Ezell's is great fried chicken. I don't discriminate against food purveyors on the basis of religion.

Elswinger--if you want gizzards, you can also get them at Chicken Valley in the Pike Place Market.

Dan, you really must check it out--Ezell's is like snowboarding.

funny, Shaniqua ... you know, that's one of my son's classmates names ...

This just in: Earth is round!

Talk about late news. I love Ezell's as much as anyone, but it has been around for what, 20 years? How often can a journalist rediscover that wheel?

I'm kinda picky about my fried chicken, so I don't think I'll be trying this place. Most fried chicken from restaurants I have had, even ones that are supposed to be really good, is greasy, dry, flavorless, and the crust is way too thick.

Maybe ezells is an exception, but my experience has been that the food in Seattle is only good when your talking seafood.

(I know im going to get shit for saying that, so feel free to respectfully disagree)

Oh, and most restaurants usually leave the skin on. I like my crust to adhere directly to the meat.

Just had an Ezell's open near my home in Renton, and finally got to try it. Good chicken, tasty biscuits. But Ezell's doesn't hold a drumstick to Doofer's chicken down the road. Mmm mmm mmm!

I've had hit-and-miss luck with Ezell's. Sometimes it's quite good (but not any better, really, than QFC's when it's fresh). Had family in town. They are Southerners, and I wanted to impress them with some of Oprah's chicken. Got the shit home and it was dry and old. This has happened more than once. So, I gotta say it ain't all that. Not always at any rate.

"Your 5 is my 2"

Tell that to the tiny ladies in the kitchen of your local Thai restaurant. I am quite certain they can give you a "5" that will blow you all the way back to Texas. And that (a farang 5) would be their "2."

"the food in Seattle is only good when your talking seafood."

Seafood and local vegtables, yes (and it's "you're" btw). But who needs to eat anything else? And why drown it in grease?

the perfect day in the Central District:

Breakfast at Ezzels (nothing better than fried chicken and rolls for breakfast)

Lunch at R & L Home of Good Barbeque on Occidental (Pulled pork sandwich served on very very cheap white bread with collards on the side)

Dinner at Catfish Corner (best catfish ever and the counter woman calls me honey)

the perfect day in the Central District:

Breakfast at Ezzels (nothing better than fried chicken and rolls for breakfast)

Lunch at R & L Home of Good Barbeque on Occidental (Pulled pork sandwich served on very very cheap white bread with collards on the side)

Dinner at Catfish Corner (best catfish ever and the counter woman calls me honey)

What I want to know is where they get those giant chickens from. God god, those wings are the size of a breast...but good!

What I want to know is where they get those giant chickens from. Good god, those wings are the size of a breast...but good!

I completely and full-heartedly support whoever it is that said they want to sleep on a pillow of their rolls ... only if I get second nap.

I'm sorry to break this to you, but while I love Ezell's, their chicken is not spicy. I'd been eating there a while and it wasn't until someone was talking to me about their spicy chicken that I realized it was supposed to be spicy. It's not spicy. You can get some pretty spicy stuff in Seattle that I'm sure even posturing Texans might find spicy, but Ezell's is not one of them. And now I feel like some fried chicken.