Once to cook it, once to wreck the crust in the best way. The second drop is the whole point.
FRIED CHICKEN SO UGLY IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL
We brine overnight, dredge by hand and drop every bird twice. Then we refuse to make it pretty and let the sauce do something about it.
Six house sauces mixed in-house, plus five traditional. Nothing gets sauced until you order it, so nothing shows up soggy.
Steinway Street does not go to bed early and neither do the fryers. Everyday, 11am until 3am.
Hand-dredged means every piece comes out its own shape. We think that is a feature.
SANDWICHES
Six sandwiches
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UGLY
WRAPS
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THE
BIRD
Tenders · Wings · Drummies
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Why Ugly Chicken
We make ugly chicken because pretty chicken tastes like nothing.
We’re ending boring fried chicken.
Twelve hours in buttermilk and Korean chilli before it ever sees flour. You cannot rush the part that makes it taste like something.
First fry cooks it through. Second fry builds the shell that survives a bath of Ugly Sauce on the walk home.
Hand-dredged, hand-sauced, never styled. If it looked good in a photo we probably did it wrong.
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