These restaurant chains pair crispy fried chicken with fully loaded baked potatoes.
Most people order fried chicken with mashed potatoes and gravy. While I can’t deny that the duo isn’t epic, you can also get a fried chicken dinner with loaded baked potatoes. That way, you get to incorporate other culinary goodies, including cheese, bacon bits, sour cream, butter, and green onions. Where can you get the best fried chicken and loaded baked potato dinner? Here are 5 restaurants that do it right.
Texas Roadhouse
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Texas Roadhouse’s Country Fried Chicken dinner comes with a tender white-meat chicken breast that is hand-battered, golden-fried, and topped with your choice of gravy. You can swap out the mashed taters for the loaded baked potato. “Their baked potatoes are fantastic,” a Yelper in Orlando says, while another calls it “phenomenal!”
Cracker Barrel
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Cracker Barrel has traditional fried chicken and chicken fried chicken on the menu. You can’t go wrong with either version. One diner maintains that the OG chicken is “very good” on Reddit, adding that the poultry pieces are “light, flavorful and juicy,” they exclaimed. “I was pleasantly surprised at how delicious it was. And the honey drizzled on it knocked it out of the park,” another adds. The loaded baked potato is another favorite, topped with bacon crumbles, cheese, butter, sour cream, and green onions.
Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen
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Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen country fried chicken meal comes with hand-breaded chicken, crispy and tasty on the outside but juicy on the inside, on Texas toast with country gravy and served with two sides. The loaded baked potato is a gem, per diner. It comes topped with thick shreds of cheese, butter, bacon crumbles, and sour cream.
Cotton Patch Cafe
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Cotton Patch Cafe’s fried chicken is another winner of a chicken dinner. “We had the chicken fried chicken with jalapeno gravy – which is my favorite. I’m always a little nervous about getting things like this delivered, but they put the gravy on the side and the chicken stayed crispy. It hit the spot and I’m happy I didn’t have to leave the house again OR cook after a long, hot work day!” a Facebooker said. As for a loaded potato, they offer a traditional version, plus the Colossal Brisket Stuffed Loaded Potato: a Texas-sized, fully loaded baked potato piled high with chopped slow-smoked brisket, real butter, sour cream, shredded cheese, fresh chives, and a smoky BBQ drizzle.
BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse
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BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse offers a Southern Fried Chicken meal that comes with hand-breaded buttermilk fried chicken breast topped with pepper cream gravy, white cheddar mashed potatoes, corn, and fire-roasted red pepper succotash. A TripAdvisor reviewer maintains that it is “delicious.” You can also swap the cheddar mashed potatoes for the loaded baked potato, with a crispy, golden-brown skin and a fluffy interior, topped with a generous amount of melted Jack and cheddar cheese, crispy smoked bacon, butter, sour cream, and green onions. “BJ’s restaurant has a massive baked potato. Served to your liking of ‘dress’. Load that baby up! You can thank me later,” a Redditor says.
