Chicken Kitchen is an extremely popular fast-casual restaurant located in South Florida, with a lot of locations in Miami. They have been the recipients of numerous awards, including one for healthiest fast food for kids. Since so many awards can’t be unmerited, let’s take a look at that menu (which I might add is made to look incredibly tempting on the website!).
Chicken Kitchen offers, as you can likely imagine, a huge range of chicken dishes. They have a lot of what you might expect, like wraps, grilled chicken, and salads. They also have a special claim to fame, called the “chop-chop.” At its most basic, it is freshly grilled, chopped chicken served over rice. But what makes it so distinctive (and delicious) is the variety of signature sauces and ingredients that you can add. You can tour the world with this dish - flavors offered include Mexican, Oriental, and Mediterranean. Other unique choices are pita pockets and rotisserie-grilled chicken (all parts of the chicken available!). Chicken Kitchen sauces are simply wonderful - they even trademarked their mustard‘n curry!
Chicken Kitchen offers three healthy kids meals. Two are mini-versions of the popular “chop-chop” and the third is a thigh and a drumstick with rice and beans or corn. Did I mention they have won awards for these meals?
Chicken Kitchen décor makes you feel right at home. Each restaurant is decked out in the style of a traditional kitchen, just like you’d find at Grandma’s. The big difference between Chicken Kitchen and Grandma’s is that while Grandma uses lots of grease and other fatty cooking tools, CK doesn’t fry anything. Maybe the one drawback of the restaurant is the lack of the ever popular chicken fingers or nuggets. Too many chicken kitchen calories…
Check them out at a location near you. Some of the more popular Florida locations include Chicken Kitchen Brickell Plaza in Miami and Chicken Kitchen Coral Gables, located on the Miracle Mile.
If you are lucky enough to be a Houston, TX resident, get to a CK fast! And for those of you in Colorado, keep your eyes open for a new location.
If you want to try making your own chicken in the kitchen, there are a lot of people posting recipes that claim to be just like the Chicken Kitchen originals. One thinks that that is not likely, but if you just can’t drag yourself out from some delicious, healthy chicken fare at a local Chicken Kitchen, try these recipes at your own risk. Or open a franchise!
