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Fried Chicken in Kansas City
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Top Tier Editorial has a take on Fried Chicken in Kansas City below. The community ranking opens up once a few locals have weighed in.
Top 4 Fried Chicken in Kansas City
Editorial picks sourced from KCUR's 2025 Food Critics segment on KC's best fried chicken and wings.
- #1
Stroud's Oak Ridge Manor
North KC
“KCUR's #1 pan-fried pick — James Beard America's Classic (1998) for cast-iron-skillet fried chicken since Prohibition, housed in an expanded 1829 log cabin.”
- #2
District Biskuits
North KC
“KCUR pick — the 'Howlin' Hot Mac' Nashville hot chicken with bacon jam on a buttermilk biscuit; home to the Howlin' Fowls hot-chicken concept.”
- #3
Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken
KCK — Rosedale
“KCUR pick — Memphis-rooted hot & spicy fried chicken, hand-breaded in-house with all the classic fixings.”
- #4
Lula Southern Cookhouse
Crossroads
“KCUR pick — homestyle Southern cooking in a grandma's-kitchen atmosphere, anchored by buttermilk biscuits and classic fried chicken.”