Dishes /
Dish
Fried chicken
Where it shows up on confirmed Upstate menus.
On confirmed menus
Every restaurant whose confirmed menu lists it, with each item’s confirmed date. No prices.
- 4 places in 4 towns: Troy, Indian Lake, Buffalo, Warsaw
- Regions: Western NY (2), Capital Region (1), North Country/Adirondacks (1)
- How it’s served: dinner at 1 place, kids at 1 place
- Menu sections it’s listed under: Fried Chicken (1), Fried Chicken & Fish (1), Kids Menu (1), Salads (1), Silverlake Dinners (1)
Based on 4 confirmed menus out of 20 restaurants whose menus we’ve confirmed, among the 379 places listed on this site. Other places may well serve it; their menus aren’t confirmed yet, so they aren’t listed here.
Fresh: confirmed on the official menu within 30 days (7 days for specials). Aging: up to twice that. Stale: older. Status updates in your browser from the confirmed date.
- Fried Chicken Fresh
- A-dack Fried Chicken Salad Fresh
- 3 Pieces Fried Chicken Combo Fresh
- 3 Pieces Fried Chicken Combo* Fresh
- Golden Fried Chicken Fresh
What it is
From the upstate.lol menu taxonomy.
- Cuisine: American
- Kind of dish: meat entree
- Also listed as: chicken and waffles, fried chicken and ribs, fried chicken cream gravy, fried chicken cream sauce, fried chicken half, fried chicken halibut, fried chicken legs stuffed, fried chicken maryland
On old menus
From historical menus indexed for this guide (NYPL What’s on the Menu? and the CIA menu collection).
Earliest dated Upstate menus in the indexed library collections that list it:
- 1900 · “Fried chicken, Maryland” at UNITED STATES HOTEL, Saratoga · library record ↗
- 1915 · “FRIED CHICKEN, with Bacon” at Mohonk Mountain House, Mohonk Lake · library record ↗
- 1932 · “Fried Chicken, Provencale” at Mohonk Mountain House, Mohonk Lake · library record ↗
Earliest among the menus indexed, not the dish’s first appearance anywhere.
Related dishes
Same kind of dish in the taxonomy, on confirmed menus.