The Bay Area offers a variety of outstanding fried chicken sandwiches, making it challenging to decide on the best. Automat serves a hot fried chicken sandwich on a milk bun, topped with pickled red onions and seaweed aioli. Kowbird in West Oakland features high-quality ingredients, serving three different fried chicken sandwiches on soft potato buns. Lovely's, originating from a smashburger pop-up, now offers an original and a hot fried chicken sandwich with comeback sauce. These establishments each provide unique flavors that elevate the fried chicken sandwich experience.
You'll find us at this all-day NoPa spot often, whether it's to grab morning coffee and pastries or spend an afternoon in a booth on our computers. But no matter what time of the day we head to Automat, there's a good chance we'll have their hot fried chicken sandwich in front of us (they start serving it at 9am). It comes on a housemade milk bun that can barely contain the massive piece of chicken, plus an overflow of pickled red onions and slaw that spill out onto the plate. A swath of seaweed aioli tops it off.
A new West Oakland spot from pitmaster Matt Horn has entered the ring and is adding fuel to the never-ending Best Bay Area Fried Chicken Sandwich debate. Kowbird is serving worthy contenders, and that's mainly due to the high quality ingredients that go into them, like slaw, housemade pickles, creamy mayo, and soft potato buns that don't overpower the star: juicy and perfectly-fried chicken thighs with crusts that have a nice hint of rosemary.
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