Roister
Many have tried: J&J’s thirty or so years ago, Chicago’s Home in Bronzeville in 2008, Art Smith’s version during his eight-year run at Table Fifty-Two, Gus’s World Famous two years ago, but the attempts to bring chicken — just a single piece of fried chicken — into the city to dethrone Harold’s generational reign have all failed. Not saying the fried portion of the $67 Whole Chicken and Chamomile plating at Grant Achatz’s Roister is better than Harold’s, just saying that no one else has come this close to second.
951 W. Fulton Market, roisterrestaurant.com
Best of Chicago 2017
