Coming Soon: Justin Sutherland’s Fried Chicken Shop, Side Chick

There is certainly some new fried chicken in city. Beginning on Monday, Justin Sutherland will officially open up a fried chicken and sides eatery in LynLake, having over the former Blue Door Pub. The Handsome Hog chef and proprietor has been imagining about a chicken store for some time.

Side Chick will have a entire bar and short menu of wings, tenders, and sandwiches. So you can get dwelling brined all organic chicken, fried in a buttermilk batter as a BLT with Duke’s mayo, as a Philly with mushroom, peppers, and jalapeño cheese sauce, or even as a floor chicken burger with all the stuff. Go for wings, go for drummies, decide on your dry rub or your sauce. Sides consist of buttermilk biscuits, sweet potato waffle fries, mac n cheese, and cauliflower nuggs with ranch among the other points. The gluten-challenged will be happy to know, buns and batters can be made GF. 

Sutherland developed the menu and created the recipes, but he is bringing on Cherokee Christopher as the Government Chef. “When Jado Hark acquired the setting up, he requested me if I desired to do a chicken cafe in it. At 1st I assumed ‘no’, but then I recognized that it was a fantastic probability to aim on that a person matter which is definitely fantastic,” Sutherland informed me over the cellular phone. “Maintain the menu smaller, just fry up some fantastic chicken and make men and women happy.”

Some men and women are not happy. About the identify. There was some flare up on Twitter this 7 days as a couple men and women questioned if the identify was not objectifying women of all ages (facet chick is slang for a girl included with a married or otherwise committed person). I requested Sutherland about that. “You know, when I was approached about this challenge, I sat with the ownership team and mentioned ‘all I want to do is fry excellent chicken and make excellent sides’. The marketing director, who is a girl, mentioned ‘Side Chick’? And we all laughed and assumed it was edgy and enjoyable. I necessarily mean, we assumed it might offend some men and women, but so much does these times. This is the deal, I am the most important advocate for range and inclusion, I am anti-racism and anti-sexism, but I am one hundred% pro lighten-up and really don’t get lifestyle much too critically all the time.”

My really casual non-scientific poll of about thirty men and women (in-person and online) split it into thirds, about: ten failed to assume it was undesirable at all, nine assumed it was fairly yikes, and eleven assumed it was probably a cheeky phase much too significantly, but failed to assume it would prevent them from likely to eat fried chicken. In addition, two of my homosexual male mates vehemently said (and requested me to issue out on their behalf) that it was in fact sexist to think that the sandwich called Nashville Hottie was aimed towards women of all ages. So.

I will go evaluate up this crispy chicken and this place right after it opens officially on Monday. Onward from that, it will be open up from 12pm-12am day-to-day, with a entire bar staying open up right up until 2am on weekends.