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I know it's stereotypical for a black person to say she loves a chicken place, but God damn the chicken and sides here are delicious. I'm going to stop the description here as to keep Martin and Malcolm from turning in their graves, but this is one of my favorite Houston gems.
Only thing keeping me from giving it five stars is the service (I can even overlook the shady location--it adds to the charm a bit). I don't know why it's so slow. Every time we did catering from this place for a school event, we'd build in an hour in order to get our food on time.
Mom always told me, to never judge a book by its cover. I mean, this place looks pretty run down on the outside, but all that matters the food they put out is unbelievable. If you love KFC & Popeyes, then you will adore Frenchys! If you are ever near UofH or TSU campuses, please, please stop here to sample some southern fried goodness!
I had some time before class the other day, so I stopped by. They now offer daily specials. They take a $1 off of the regular priced menu on the combo specials. I ordered the Creole Sampler, you get 1 piece of chicken or cajun sausage, 2 sides, a biscuit or cornbread muffin, and a hot pepper.
I ordered a chicken breast, fries, red beans & rice, biscuit and hot pepper. The grand total came out to $5.08! I was so excited to find such a bargain. They even hooked me up with a cornbread muffin.
The food was amazing! The juicy chicken had just the right amount of seasoning, the fries were hot & crispy, the red beans & rice wereyum (they even put in pieces of sausage), the biscuit was flaky and coated with honey, the pepper topped it all off! I was in hog heaven!
Honestly, this is the best fried chicken I have ever eaten. I highly recommend this place.
I dont care if your black, white, brown, yellow or green everyone loves good southern fried chicken and this is were to go if your in Houston for good southern fired chicken. My visit to this little place was a great way to top off a University of Houston football victory I was hungry and thirsty and i found the cure. i ordered a 3 piece with fries and a biscuit with a Fanta red to drink. Ok so the chicken was amazing i started with the leg then the thigh then the almighty chicken breast which was F*&$#@^ amazing! The biscuit was great fluffy and buttery, and the fries had a Creo seasoning which pushed them over the top. What confused me was the drink I couldn't figure out if it was flat soda or really sugary Kool-Aid either way it was good :) Now my disappointments there was NO HOT SAUSE there was not a single pack or bottle of hot sauce! And they need to market that Creo seasoning so you can dash it on your chicken when you eat it there. And lastly the service was uh how should i say "colorful" if theres a line please know what your gonna order BEFORE you get to the register don't stand in front of the ladies at the register not knowing what to order they will slam the widow in your face and i'm not exaggerating. Other then that by far the best chicken I've had in a very very long time. I know it sounds crazy but i still dream about this chicken.
The best fried chicken....in the worst environment. Some workers/customers need retraining orders. I'm not trying to be racist, but it is what it is. The food is great. The service could be better. That's the only reason why I gave 4 stars.
I always get the King's special. If you have a steady healthy diet, you're missing out on the best food in the world. Yes, this would be a vegetarian nightmare! I love the fattening grease fried white meat with corn and mashed potatoes on the side.
Frenchy's = AWESOME fried chicken. I was a student at the surrounding University, and this place sure got frequented before and after class.
I either get the King's Special (if I'm really REALLY hungry and want leftovers on top of that) or just the 2 or 3 piece meals with sides. The Dirty rice is very well seasoned and the frenchy fries at this location beat the ones out at the Kirby location. The chicken itself is crispy and a bit salty, yet tasty and fresh -- a really unique batter compared to KFC (yuck) or even Popeye's.
Don't overlook the desserts -- both the sweet potato pie and the bread pudding were delicious and the perfect ending to a heavy meal.
The service isn't necessarily the fastest (if you plan on going on Sunday, good luck as both the line and the drive through stretch on forever, especially right after church) -- but it's well worth the wait.
I wish there were Frenchy's outside of Houston! :(
When you played M*A*S*H in elementary and middle school you tried to avoid 'S' because ... who wants to live in a Shack? If I had a time machine, I would go back in time wishing I got that 'S' every time. Reason? If that Shack was Frenchy's Fried Chicken. Although the establishment may look shack-like and rundown from the outside, the fried chicken makes you dream that you are eating 5 star food in a Mansion.
Frenchy's could possibly be my new favorite fried chicken destination. I am a big Popeye's Spicy fried chicken fan. Frenchy's chicken has a subtle spicy peppered skin. The spiciness crescendos with eat bite you eat. This is different from the spiciness of Popeye's that just punches you in the mouth.
I went to Frenchy's at around 330pm on a Saturday (after waking up at 230pm)...and there was a line. This proves that you can have fried chicken for breakfast, brunch, lunch, afternoon tea, linner, dinner and for a late night snack.
Parking is in a private lot. There are park benches for you to sit on "inside" the restaurant with fans cooling you in this humid Houston weather.
Good ole Frenchy's. My husband and I were in the hotel in Houston and was looking for a decent place to eat on the yelp and we came a cross this place with high rating so we decided to check it out. I have to warn you this place is in the middle of the Ghetto. But the chicken is off the hook. I have to admit, my husband and I believe that we have pretty high taste buds and we are pretty good cook ourselves. So we are not easily satisfied with many restaurant especially with fried chicken. Very hard to find the good one. But to our surprise it was very good. The pricing was good too. For 4pc chicken dinner with 2 side I think it was like 6 dollar and some change. Good tasting Jambalaya too.
This is one of those places where looks are deceiving! But the food is great and cheap!!! It has great flavor!
It's also entertaining to watch the birds attack people for food =P
Between this and and the Fried chicken at spanish village, it's hard to say. It's flakey, perfectly seasoned, and it's not slimey like all the fast food chains seem to be.
The dirty rice is fantastic, the fries are great with great seaoning. And the biscuits have a little honey drizzled on the top. Soooo good!
Frenchy's! Wow i can not believe there are this many reviews for this place! I was doing a summer program at Thurgood Marshal Law School and this was the closest place to eat. Being from SF, southern cuisine is not too rampant. So I had to try this place. The chicken was tasty, so was the dirty rice. The collard greens were mediocre, mine are much tastier. Basically, everything is fried in lots of grease and super salted. Its a yummy treat but def not something on the regular, or heart attacks will be knockin
The Frenchy's on scott st. is probably the best one out of all the others.
That being said, I think that the looks of this place are decieving... and the location is very shady, but the food is amazing. The fried chicken is soo good and the fries w/ the seasoning is out of this world. Although the fried chicken is delicious i still think that its a little too salty.
Perfect place to eat once. If it wasn't so fattening I would go everyday!
Pro: FOOD, FOOD, FOOD
Cons: shady area, very fattening!
When you first pull up to this place it looks pretty sketchy but, boy this fried chicken is off the hook! The dirty rice and gumbo is super tasty too. I'll definitely be coming back. If you're in the mood for fried chicken, this is the place to get it.
I love Frenchy's! The chicken is so greasy and good. The dirty rice is some of the best I've had too. Frenchy's does draw a crowd so it is best to park on the side of the restaurant closest to the Scott & Wheeler intersection. If you park on the side near the church (also called Wheeler and it's wonderful, but I digress), you may not be able to get out right away because of the cars in the drive-thru. But if you cannot get out of the parking lot for awhile, do what I did one time. I just sat in the car and ate my slice of sweet potato pie until I could get out. Things were just fine in my world!
Frenchy...baby.. I wanted so much to like you. In the time I've lived here I've heard over and over about Frenchy's. Man.. You gotta try Frenchy's etc. Then, I look, and my fellow Yelpers have given this place glowing reviews also. So naturally I think ok if THIS many people like this place, and come over here to 3rd ward to eat here, it's gotta be good.
Nope. It's just chicken. I don't know what I was expecting, but there are far better places to get a fried wing. Plus the service was horrible. I wouldn't even call it service. At one point, I wanted to say screw it and just put on a hair net and fry my own damn wings, ring myself up, and leave.
Popeyes is better. Timmy Chan is better. Actually, I'M better at frying wings at home than this junk. Sorry to go against the consensus, but this place just didn't do it for me. The wings were lukewarm, and the seasoning was still batterish, not crispy. I won't be back.
I was so excited stumbling on to Frenchy's. My friend and I were wandering the area near Reliant Stadium trying to find good eats. When we spotted, the Frenchy's sign I was more than thrill after reading such great reviews. I love fried chicken but I much prefer other chains such as Popeye's or Church's.
The crispy skin was a bit bland in flavor and I had to doust it with hot sauce. To me, it was just alright. I also tried the fried catfish, collard greens, and mashed potatoes. Those were also mediocre. Nothing wowing, nothing wrong either.
I have to say that it's probably one of the nicer fast food developments though. There's even a bar inside.
This place is so good. The chicken is perfectly fried with just the right seasoning, as well as the fries and sure did love that biscuit. Overall this is probably my new favorite fried chicken spot and it's affordable too.
The best fried chicken in the city of Houston...hands down. Go try it!
The chicken was alright but the fries were friggin DISGUSTING! It tasted like I was shoving a huge stick of butter and grease down my throat. I've only been here only one time and will NEVER come back.
When I was growing up in Houston, there were several Frenchy's Chicken restaurants around town. I used to live within walking distance of the one on Shepherd and Colquitt and me and my roommates practically lived there. This location is the only one left that I am aware of. For me it is a pretty good drive to get to but it is still the best chicken. I recently went for lunch (from downtown so not too bad) with some fellow houstonites that had grown up with Frenchy's.
The chicken has just the right spice, a great crust and enough grease to drive you to the gym a couple of extra nights!! Don't miss the fries!!
If you are wanting a place to sit an eat with a group of friends, skip it!! This is a wait in line in the heat and take your food to go place.
Every since before I came to school in Houston I've been told about this place. With such a far reach in customers, I just had to try it when I moved here finally. It's establishment is an open outside serving environment which caught me off guard, with little to no accommodations for customers waiting in line for food. No restroom, no indoors, not too much at all but a window for serving. This through me off as I wasn't accustomed to this in a restaurant ever before now.
All that aside, the chicken may just be worth it and the wait as well. It has a distinctly seasoned taste that I can see why everyone loves and somewhat makes up for the environment you have to sit in while waiting on your food inside. I overall like their chicken and other offerings making visits every now and then for that addicting taste. If I had to itemize all my stars then the chicken would account for four and the loss of one due to the waiting situation.
This is the best fried chicken in Houston. Oh, and it's amazing.
Don't forget to bring cash and expect to wait 30 minutes on a good day.
It's well worth the wait. Trust me.
Bryan S. hit the nail on the head. Damn I love me some Frenchy's chicken!!
Cajun-styled fried chicken that has claimed itself to be the best fried chicken in Houston -- and rightly so (at least one of the best). They don't use much white meat though (I'm not sure if I can recall seeing any white meat as a matter of fact), and they don't seem to give big chicken legs. What makes this place the best is the seasoning put into the batter and just for the burst of flavor, I would be willing to come back and have their chicken.
This is located in the Third Ward (an African American ghetto in Houston) and is right by University of Houston and close to Texas Southern University. The building looks shabby and the light green paint seems to be peeling off. Age shows but not when it comes to the chicken.
There's a drive-thru at this location but usually the line is long and the drive-thru won't make your car feel comfortable (as it is tight and kinda hard to drive through. If you have a big car, forget it. Park the car and order inside (which by the way doesn't have much a/c to offer).
But despite the structural flaws, this place is often packed. So obviously they've been doing something right.
You can get sides such as dirty rice. This isn't your standard fried chicken place.
OK, normally when I'm in the middle of triathlon season (yeah, yeah whatever, I gotta do something with my free time), I try to avoid all processed foods, refined sugars and most of all fried foods. But every once in a while, especially after a particularly tough week of training I'll give myself a break and allow myself to eat something that I've been craving. Well today I didn't just off the nutrition boat, I almost drowned myself in vegetable oil when I discovered Fenchy's Fried Chicken. Holy crap the chicken in this place is unbelievable! I ate 9 pieces of fried chicken for lunch. Yeah, you read that right, 9 pieces! The chicken was so ridiculously good I couldn't stop after finishing my 5 piece lunch special so I ordered a 10 piece box to go and ate 4 almost immediately after arriving home. I'm eyeing the remaining 6 pieces as I write this and I just got back from dinner with friends.
I can't describe how good it is, you just have to drive there and find out for yourself. Frenchy's sits in a shack of a structure on the west side of UH campus. This is not a good neighborhood by any stretch of the imagination but do not be scared of going here. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be dreaming about fried chicken tonight.
The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because the dirty rice that I had with lunch was only mediocre. Just forget everything else, order the chicken and lots of it. Your cardiologist will hate me for it, but everybody deserves something tasty like this every once in a while, right?
Tomorrow I'm back to veggie burgers, tofu and steamed vegetables... god I hate my life...
The chicken is very similar to fried chicken from other fast food joints... and just a little bit greasier than other places like Popeyes or Church's. Service was very slow.
\What makes Frenchy's different are their side orders. I love the dirty rice and the desert peach cobbler. Very yummy.
Its the best fried chicken in Houston. period.
They only take cash and it's going to take a really long time to go through the drive through if you on a Sunday afternoon (that's the only time I seem to go). Like 30-40 minutes of waiting in the car. It may have taken more time but by the time you order and you eat that chicken its totally worth it.
Oh Frenchy's how I miss you! I wish we had a Frenchy's Chiken here in Colorado, because this is the best fried chicken (besides my mama's fried chicken) that I have ever had! And the seasoned fries, and cabbage are delish too! Can't wait to go back!
Mmmm, Frenchy's. Been to Houston twice and I've been to Frenchy's twice. I always have to make a trip up here, even if it's a trek from the NASA/Bay Area part of HTown. I'm still on the fence whether I like it better than Popeye's. Most of the Popeye's I've gone to have been pretty consistent, but the freshness and the seasoning on the skin can't be beat. Can't wait to go back to Houston!
The food speaks for itself. This is the original location, so for those who are looking for renovated interior, try their newer spots. For those who complain about the service, it's in the middle of the 'hood, by a major university, and a main thoroughfare - you can figure out why it may not be organized like some of the larger competitor's chains. Albeit, this is the neighborhood I grew up in and I am proud of it. Please don't compare it to Popeye's - their recipes are totally different. Don't expect it to taste like any fried chicken you would make at home with Tony Chachere's Creole Seasoning either. For the five stars, I have taken into account: history (when people that looked like myself and others could not readily eat at many other chicken joints in a certain forgone era), low prices, taste, and the fact that they support so many community events. Go Frenchy's!!! 3 wings, seasoned fries, red soda (get your own hot sauce & jalapeno pepper at home).
Best fried chicken in Houston. This location. not others.
i love me some good fried chicken.
my folks relocated to houston from LA and i visited in the summer of 2006 so my brother & sister took me to the 3rd ward to try some authentic cajun fried chicken.
frenchy's has about 4 cashiers working a long window and there was at least 3-5 people in each line. there was also a pickup line for people that place big orders or called their orders in. it seemed like everyone was ordering the wings special but i had to have a chicken breast. we ordered it to go and it was still so hot when we arrived home some 40 minutes later [we cruised downtown houston]. i didn't care for the breast though, i definately recommend the wings, just so crunchy and tasty. they have some delicious dirty rice, greens and fries too.
the dessert of the day was bread pudding and my mom & i enjoyed it.
I hadn't been here, actually ever but I was in town and my Dad just had to go. He works across the street and says the place is always packed late night. The wings are great! Just crispy enough, but still meaty. The fries are really great too big, but still crunchy and tasty. Next time I want wings I'm heading here!
I'm not a big fried chicken person, so I dont know how good this is in comparisin to other fried chicken restaurants. But I think it's great, and I'm not alone. Always a line in the drive through, and in front of each counter. The chicken is well seasoned, decent sized, and cooked just right (not undercooked but not too soggy)... And they have red drank (i dunno if it's kool aid or what) and seasoned fries.
It's located right around the corner from from UH and TSU. The whole time I went to UH, I avoided coming here cause it looked so shady. Straight out of the scene from menace 2 society, where they roll up to the chicken shack and splatter that one guy's brains all over the counter glass. But I finally went, and have never felt unsafe. It's right on the edge of 3rd ward, but it's all good in the hood. It's not like it's on the edge of the bloody nickel or something.
The seating is stainless steel picnic tables in an open air cafeteria area (read : no AC, and I don't think they've got restrooms). Parking can be tricky, depending on your car and how busy they are.
Frenchy's Chicken is somewhat of a legend in Houston.
I have to admit the chicken is crispy, but the service is getto.
The staff at frenchy's is rude and nasty. I am not interested in spending my money in a place that has that kind of customer service. If you just care about eating good chicken go there, but do not expect service.
Horrible.
I lived in Houston until I was 17...now I am 27. Every time I land to see my family, we go straight to Frenchy's for some chicken. That's right...b/c no one does it better. The best chicken and fries you'll ever taste. The best...okay.
If this place is anything like it was back in 2000 (when I use to eat here everyday) then it needs to be shut down by a health inspector. Also if you want any other soda besides "red" which is the ghetto word for "strawberry" good luck with that. Other than the before mentioned, DE-LI-CIOSO!!!!
Hands down the best place to get fried chicken. After I found out about this place I cannot go back to other chicken places. The extra drive to get to this place is well worth it.
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