Best SF Chicken

antlyn

Hey will be in Cork for a few days working during the week and was wondering if anyone would recommend somewhere for fried chicken or a good takeaway in the city.


Thanks,
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NoDice

HILLBILLIES!!!!!!! :D:D:D:D

http://maps.google.ie/maps/place?hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=hillbillies+cork&fb=1&gl=ie&hq=hillbillies&hnear=Cork,+Co.+Cork&cid=4976574480549950619

It's a deep fried orgasm with gravy!!!!!

antlyn

Sounds good! Is there a website or online menu, I can salivate over until I'm in Cork ?

gbee

No good Fried Chicken IMO in the city. Quality varies from time of day and current trade.

Chippers: Lennox's Barrack Street probably have the highest consistency. [But barrack Street is not City Centre].

Grace's Southern Fried [Cook Street] usually have good value but quality is like a yo-yo.

Lennox, Angelsea Street: OK.

KC's in Douglas [out of town] can come highly recommended.

Patrick Street has McDonalds, Burger King and Abracadabra

NoDice

No website, anyone correct me if I'm wrong here, but the closest I could get to an online menu was on bebo - http://www.bebo.com/c/photos/view?MemberId=8025659921&PhotoNbr=1&PhotoAlbumId=9237529275

Googled it so might be far off!

To be fair it's your typical, greasy, salty (oh boy oh boy I have to go to town and get some now!) sfc take away but I (and many other Corkonians) love it!

KFC is around too but Hillbillies is just nicer imo.

Enjoy your stay in Cork by the way.

antlyn

gbee wrote: »

No good Fried Chicken IMO in the city. Quality varies from time of day and current trade.

Chippers: Lennox's Barrack Street probably have the highest consistency. [But barrack Street is not City Centre].

Grace's Southern Fried [Cook Street] usually have good value but quality is like a yo-yo.

Lennox, Angelsea Street: OK.

KC's in Douglas [out of town] can come highly recommended.

Patrick Street has McDonalds, Burger King and Abracadabra

Thanks for your reply Where would you recommend for sf chicken. I will have my car so can travel! That kcs place is nice was there before.

NoDice

gbee wrote: »

No good Fried Chicken IMO in the city. Quality varies from time of day and current trade.

Chippers: Lennox's Barrack Street probably have the highest consistency. [But barrack Street is not City Centre].

Grace's Southern Fried [Cook Street] usually have good value but quality is like a yo-yo.

Lennox, Angelsea Street: OK.

KC's in Douglas [out of town] can come highly recommended.

Patrick Street has McDonalds, Burger King and Abracadabra

Yum to all of those but come on, Hillbillies is pretty darn perfect! It's meant to be greasy and salty and fattening! Mmmm the gravy made with mashed potatoes... Or the chilli deluxe breast in a bun with hash browns!! ..........Or is it really just me?? :o:o

drunkmonkey

Its hard to beat a hillbillys breast in a bun with a small milk!! Kfc is dirt in comparison.

gbee

NoDice wrote: »

Yum to all of those but come on, Hillbillies .Or is it really just me?? :o:o

I've not gone there in a while ~ but the queues would suggest it is not just you.

johnnyjb

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=51.904033,-8.49613&spn=0.000753,0.002747&z=19&layer=c&cbll=51.904212,-8.496155&panoid=0Q9ehF1SfmunIvjg7gOiLQ&cbp=12,303.73,,0,12.03

This is a nice hillbillies, few mins drive out of city centre though

gbee

Went to the Little Island branch soon after it opened a few years ago: Fantastic: Went back recently and I'd not bother to go back again TBH.

Consistency is the problem.

smileysurfer

If your after some chicken wings go to East Village in Douglas, you'l be drooling in no time!
Personally I gag a little when I think of Hill Billies :pac:

NoDice

Ok ok I hold my hands up and say Hillbillies is a cheap, salty, typical sfc takeaway. If that's what you're after Hillbillies is the way to go!

However I am also a big fan of MacDonalds & the steak and cheese in Subway!

Papa_Lazarou

OP if going to hillbillies you may need about 8 pints in ya to be able to digest the stuff :P

pow wow

mmmm Hillbillies :pac:

I met a girl in America who'd studied at UCC for a couple of months and the thing she missed most was the deliciousness of a Hillbillies after a skinful. I'd say the staff could tell some stories!

paulosham

Sinn Féin do chicken?

I reckon their breast in a bun is nice, the actual snack boxes etc are fairly not nice me thinks. Too greasy and not crispy enough. John Graces is nicer for a snack box / dinner box but the late night clientelle on a Friday and Saturday can actually put you off your grub :eek:

NoDice

I usually get a snack box with two drum sticks, a chilli deluxe breast in a bun and a portion of onion rings. Nom nom nom. I've had it both sloshed and stone cold sober. I find the chicken portions are nicer during the day. Maybe it's down to a change in the oil?

BTW, you don't understand how happy I am about an entire thread about SFC!!!

babo9

Hillbillies after large amounts of alcohol: savage
Hillbillies when sober: greasy and kind of sickening but I'd still go there the odd time

TBH I'd prefer KFC to Hillbillies when I'm sober, never had a KFC drunk, none in town!

You can't go wrong with Lennox's bandon road or KC's Douglas, but I can't really comment on the chicken side of things. Get a sf hot chicken roll in the shop on corner of college road, better than any hillbillies

NoDice

Just realised you also requested take away suggestions; I got far too excited about being able to talk too much about Hillbillies.

My favourite take-away/delivery is Lal Quila in Douglas - http://www.whoseview.ie/business/Lal-Quila-Douglas-Cork-167600.html

The perfect Indian food. *stomach rumbles*

ABajaninCork

I do a wicked fried chicken!

But I bring my own chicken fry mix from the UK and do it myself. Beats the processed ****e from KFC/Hillbillies/Donatello's hands down.

At least that's what my husband tells me...:D

ShamFeen

Thanks everyone for making me hungry! Wont be heading to the gym tonight, hillbillies instead!

NoDice

ShamFeen wrote: »

Thanks everyone for making me hungry! Wont be heading to the gym tonight, hillbillies instead!

Ha ha ha I'm so embarrassed that I've posted so many times in what I'm now calling "THE AWESOME HILLBILLIES THREAD" but I wish I could thank your post more than once!!!

leahyl

NoDice wrote: »

Ha ha ha I'm so embarrassed that I've posted so many times in what I'm now calling "THE AWESOME HILLBILLIES THREAD" but I wish I could thank your post more than once!!!

Well you are so right so post away - Hillbillies is just perfection! The chicken is just to DIE for and i usually eat it sober so it AIN'T greasy whoever said it was!! The hillbillies on Bakers Road do fish too which according to my dad is "the nicest battered fish he's ever tasted" - SO THERE!

In short GO TO HILLBILLIES:D

leahyl

leahyl wrote: »

The chicken is just to DIE for and i usually eat it sober so it AIN'T greasy whoever said it was!!

That was me for one :pac:
Being a non drinker I only have only ever eaten it sober and two years ago I was 17 stone so I know a thing or two about grub

Popped into John Graces last night

leahyl

RoverJames wrote: »

That was me for one :pac:
Being a non drinker I only have only ever eaten it sober and two years ago I was 17 stone so I know a thing or two about grub

Popped into John Graces last night

Ok well maybe i just choose to ignore the greasyness.....:o but i honestly don't find it that greasy - now if you ever taste Looneys chips in Mayfield - now THEY are what i call greasy - i get a pain in my stomach after them!

NoDice

leahyl wrote: »

Well you are so right so post away - Hillbillies is just perfection! The chicken is just to DIE for and i usually eat it sober so it AIN'T greasy whoever said it was!! The hillbillies on Bakers Road do fish too which according to my dad is "the nicest battered fish he's ever tasted" - SO THERE!

In short GO TO HILLBILLIES:D

*dances with drumsticks*



I also said it was greasy but I like it greasy! Well tbf it's not so much greasy really! It's just so juicy and succulent and has the nicest crispiest breadcrumb ever!!!

ShamFeen

NoDice wrote: »

*dances with drumsticks*



I also said it was greasy but I like it greasy! Well tbf it's not so much greasy really! It's just so juicy and succulent and has the nicest crispiest breadcrumb ever!!!

Hillbillies should be paying you for all this advertising, and perhaps they are!!? If not, why not?

NoDice

ShamFeen wrote: »

Hillbillies should be paying you for all this advertising, and perhaps they are!!? If not, why not?

I think you're onto something there Shamfeen..........

/leaves Boards.




*runs to Hillbillies*

NoDice

NoDice wrote: »

*runs to Hillbillies*

Stalker mode on

which Hillbillies ? :pac:

dan185

I love breasts

NoDice

RoverJames wrote: »

Stalker mode on

which Hillbillies ? :pac:

I have to admit that I can't go! Remember man, it's my NYR????? :(:(

dan185 wrote: »

I love breasts

HA HA HA HA!!!!!! This actually made me burst out laughing at work!!!! i had to explain to my collegues that I'm reading about fried chicken on a forum about Cork city and some dude just made a sexual innuendo.... Now everyone defo thinks I'm mad.

NoDice

NoDice wrote: »

Isome dude just made a sexual innuendo....

I thought he was on about chicken to be honest

antlyn

Thanks everyone for suggestions, looks like it will be hillbillies tonight!

NoDice wrote: »

I have to admit that I can't go! Remember man, it's my NYR????? :(:(

Presume you mean new years resolution? Will deffo be on here tomorrow boasting about me feast! Hopefully

NoDice

antlyn wrote: »

Thanks everyone for suggestions, looks like it will be hillbillies tonight!





Presume you mean new years resolution? Will deffo be on here tomorrow boasting about me feast! Hopefully

Yep New Years Resolution. I went there way too many times last year and I've promised myself to cut down on the take aways so it's not an option for me anymore.. Except for on a weekend for one day if I'm in town and I've been really good all week.. Yes.. I'm sure this NYR will work out..

lol, when I went to John Graces on Monday night I ordered a snack box, bastads were doing buy one get one free :rolleyes: I didn't quite eat all of the chips though :pac:

babo9

antlyn wrote: »

Thanks everyone for suggestions, looks like it will be hillbillies tonight!

Presume you mean new years resolution? Will deffo be on here tomorrow boasting about me feast! Hopefully

Mind if I ask where you're coming from? Hillbillies isn't unique to Cork although when I got one in Kerry I wasn't impressed, Cork's much better!

gbee

babo9 wrote: »

Cork's much better!

It depends on a few things.

How hungry one is, is first. How much drink one has and so on.

Than:
The time of day.
Turnover on the day.
The cooks on the day.
The actual food on the day.

If you are drunk you'll eat rubbish and love it, some less reputable establishments have been known to take advantage of this. So if you are sober and in a drunken queue you might find you are buying rubbish and hate it.

babo9

gbee wrote: »

It depends on a few things.

How hungry one is, is first. How much drink one has and so on.

Than:
The time of day.
Turnover on the day.
The cooks on the day.
The actual food on the day.

If you are drunk you'll eat rubbish and love it, some less reputable establishments have been known to take advantage of this. So if you are sober and in a drunken queue you might find you are buying rubbish and hate it.

I agree, I previously said in general Hillbillies is great drunk but okish sober and I go there the odd time sober.

But I was comparing like with like, sober Hillbillies in Cork far better than sober Hillbillies in Kerry.
If I had compared eating them when I was drunk...well you can't really make a fair comparision about something you do when drunk

gbee

babo9 wrote: »

But I was comparing like with like, sober Hillbillies in Cork far better than sober Hillbillies in Kerry.

Actually when I re-read your post I took it as a question. Sorry about that.

Bill-e

I worked in John Graces fried chicken for a year. Ate a fair amount of the stock while there

Have to say though Hillbillies is much better. Crazy to think that Hillbillies was set up by John Grace's son and John Graces Fried Chicken is owned by John Grace Jnr.

You can see which one had the better business skills....

babo9

gbee wrote: »

Actually when I re-read your post I took it as a question. Sorry about that.

No probs!

antlyn

babo9 wrote: »

Mind if I ask where you're coming from? Hillbillies isn't unique to Cork although when I got one in Kerry I wasn't impressed, Cork's much better!

Yeah no problem, I'm from Galway. Never had a hillbillies before .......................untillast nite! Got a breast in a bun and a snackbox (was fasting all day in anticipation!!) and glad I got both as the chips aren't the nicest. I went to the one on tuckey street I think its called. But the chicken oooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummy

NoDice

antlyn wrote: »

Yeah no problem, I'm from Galway. Never had a hillbillies before .......................untillast nite! Got a breast in a bun and a snackbox (was fasting all day in anticipation!!) and glad I got both as the chips aren't the nicest. I went to the one on tuckey street I think its called. But the chicken oooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuummy

RESULT!!!!!!! :cool:

antlyn

Thanks for all your help NoDice!! Still dissappointed wit chips tho

NoDice

Chips aren't great no it's the chicken that's to die for. Mmmm. I usually drown my chips in their gravy anyway. I think due to this result I shall celebrate by getting Hillbillies tomorrow!

antlyn

Me too. seeing as I'm here till Sunday and couldn't have another one again today. Sounds like after all this chicken I will walking back to Galway

babo9

NoDice wrote: »

I shall celebrate by getting Hillbillies tomorrow!

antlyn wrote: »

Me too. seeing as I'm here till Sunday

Ye should meet up for a Hillbillies date and discuss ye're common love of the place :P

Seloth

HILLBILLIES IS ****IN GOD!


The breast n bun is like....the breast of God!.


Dont go in there till past 6 pm though...for some reason during the day it's sick but once it hit 6pm its nom nom(even sober).

List of hillbillies.Two in the city centre,one in the north side,one in waterford...where else is it?

wyndham

Seloth wrote: »

HILLBILLIES IS ****IN GOD!


The breast n bun is like....the breast of God!.


Dont go in there till past 6 pm though...for some reason during the day it's sick but once it hit 6pm its nom nom(even sober).

List of hillbillies.Two in the city centre,one in the north side,one in waterford...where else is it?

Clontarf/ Fairview

Kold

Hillbillies is not nearly as nice as has been stated in this thread.