Bottom line: Bad Mama's Chicken is a virtual delivery chicken business only available through food delivery order apps. The chicken tenders were large, with generous breading and fried well...but could not taste the seasoning like I was hoping. The sides were OK as well but not overwhelming. For so much 4 star potential, I'd have to go with 3 stars this time and A-OK rating.
The Deets:
In looking around on my food delivery apps, I noticed an entry for Bad Mama's Chicken to order from and thinking...hmmm, not seen that around. Well, there's a good reason, in that they are only virtual delivery chicken business that are currently on such apps as DoorDash, Uber Eats, and GrubHub as a virtual extension of Bad Daddy's Burger Bar but their own entity. The main part of their menu is tenders and wings, with a pretty good variety of sides to order along with the delivery chicken options. I decided to go with some tenders and then to sample their side offerings I went with the tots, the mac & cheese, and the house made chips. Delivery was fast and the items were still warm, nice. I'll start with the main offering, Mama's Tenders. First of all when I opened the container, I did not realize the tenders came with fries as the app did not indicate that...wow, what a carb fest for me indeed now. The tenders themselves were large pieces, well breaded and fried. I love the portion for the tenders. They looked wonderful. As I started enjoying them, they were good but I felt like the seasoning on the breading just was not coming through. I by no means want them spicy or overwhelming (I am not a fan of spicy, at all) but I would have loved to gotten some solid flavor from the seasoning. Good, definitely, but not great. As a side note, I ordered ranch as one of my dipping sauces...I did not receive any ranch, and that was disappointing. The fries...well...they were just saturated with grease/oil, not crunchy a bit just soggy with grease. They did not impress me. I went next to sample the Mama's Tots and yes, they were good (but I love tots...tots, how I love thee...). The Mama's house made Chips were a tad bit overdone for my taste...again, good but just past the point I'd like the chips. Give me light golden chips but not going on their way to brown. And last, I had to get spoonful (or three) of Mama's Mac & Cheese. It was good and loved the consistency of the cheese on the macaroni but the cheese taste was a bit short...however, UPDATE...upon warming it up and giving it another go, I find the cheesy taste actually better than the first bite or two, I'll take it. If the flavors would just come through for me, on the tenders especially, I'd say Mama's would be around a 4 star place for delivery chicken...but in this case, I can't go there for 4 stars. I hope so in the future. read more