Chicken Guy is another celebrity restaurant by Guy Fieri that is made for any lover of a chicken tender, salad, sandwich, shakes, and variety of sauces place, similar to Chick Fil A. It's one of those "trendy/celeb backed shindigs" that is a bit higher priced for the branding but still comparable to other chicken shops like PDQ and Huey Magoo's. I appreciated seeing some head chef in the cook area helping train and guide to make high quality food as it has only recently opened so it is nice that they are trying to produce good food instead of just slapping some food together according to some template menu like Ghost Kitchens tend to do with ingredients they already serve. I believe some of the difference makers you can get here compared to other chicken joints would be the homemade sauces and how packed of a Big Bite these sandwiches look to be. I ordered a Combo #4: B.L.A.T. Chicken Sandwich with Fries and a drink. It's a smoked Bacon, Lettuce, Avocado spread, Tomato, and buttermilk ranch sandwich that comes with two fried tenders inside. The brine on the tenders is good, there was plentiful amount of avocado spread across the top bun, a nice legit buttermilk ranch on the bottom buns, fresh crunchy lettuce that looked more like sprouts bunches up (and it really works well, tasting and blending better than just a some whole lettuce sheets), and a well cooked bacon that wasn't too crunchy and not too soggy - well done. The buns! They were also baked good perfection as some places are hit and miss on buns, this place is a HIT for buns.
Sauces wise: I only got a chance to try out 5 sauces on this first visit. And here were my personal favorites from top to least:
1 - Nashville Hot Honey
2 - Chipotle Ranch
3 - Donkey Sauce
4 - Honey Mustard
5 - Special Sauce
They seem to advertise the Special Sauce and Donkey Sauce as their top two sauce flavors but I would say pass for those as there are better flavors to explore and enjoy. I enjoy spicy kicks to my sauces so the hot stuff worked better for me. There are probably 10 other sauces offered that I haven't tried yet, so I may update later if I get a chance to return and sample those out.
Shakes look to be another Monster Eat on the menu, I wasn't too hungry to go all out for those but I would return for dessert to try out some shake and fries again. Speaking of the seasoned fries, they were also pretty good. Might've got cold a bit too fast for me but I did order this to go instead of eating in to enjoy them fresh and hot. But even cold at home, they don't taste soggy or papery like other restaurant fries, they stay crunchy in nature and great dippers for the sauces.
I would return and recommend to others, price is just a tad bit higher and maybe that's why the drop in a star but for sandwich size, you do get a nice bang for your buck. And if 3-4 different sauces were already included within that sandwich combo price then it would help a bit more and serve better as a marketing tactic that can justify the higher pricing since Additional sauces do cost 50 cents each. read more