City Consensus · Memphis
Fried Chicken in Memphis
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Top Tier Editorial has a take on Fried Chicken in Memphis below. The community ranking opens up once a few locals have weighed in.
Top 3 Fried Chicken in Memphis
Memphis is the original home of Gus's — the Memphis Magazine 2024 Readers' Restaurant Poll's fried-chicken picks.
- #1
Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken
Downtown
“Memphis Magazine 2024 Readers' Poll Super Star for Best Fried Chicken. The Memphis-born, spicy-battered fryer that expanded nationally — this downtown Front Street location is the flagship.”
- #2
Superlo Foods
East Memphis
“Memphis Magazine 2024 #2 for Best Fried Chicken. The local grocery chain's deli counter is a quiet Memphis legend — pressure-fried, bone-in chicken locals buy by the eight-piece box.”
- #3
Jack Pirtle's Chicken
Binghampton
“Memphis Magazine 2024 #3 for Best Fried Chicken. The homegrown fryer chain since 1957 — the kind of deeply seasoned, crackly-skinned chicken Memphians grew up eating out of a red-and-white box.”