The Chicken Fried Life

Review: The Mighty Cone

The Mighty Cone

The Food:  The Mighty Cone offers a unique fried food experience.  Chicken, shrimp, and/or avocado are covered with Mighty Cone’s Hot ‘n’ Crunchy breading and deep fried and served with slaw and an ancho sauce on a tortilla that rests in a paper drink cone (similar to a snow [...]

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Review: Fred’s Texas Cafe

Fred’s Texas Cafe
The Food: Fred’s Cafe famous for its hamburgers. Had the Fred’s Cheese burger and fries, good greasy slider hamburger with deep fried french fries still smoking hot when delivered to the table.  On a scale of one to ten, Fred’s burgers gets an 8. We also had an order of cheesy – jalapeno [...]

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Review: Texas Roadhouse

Texas Roadhouse
(Editor’s Note: We’re not too hot on chain restaurants, but we’ll try anyone’s chicken fried steak. It’s about the research, people.)
The Food: We had the Chicken Fried Steak(of course). It was huge, but was thin and very salty. The winner here was the cream gravy. This is not our favorite chicken fried steak, [...]

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Review: Kendall’s, Noble, Oklahoma.

Kendall’s
The Food: The chicken fried here is excellent. It’s absolutely worth the stop. Lightly breaded and matched with excellent gravy. There are two sizes, the smaller portion is human sized. But…go ahead and order the big one and give it a try. We had to take some with us, but it made a great snack [...]

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Review: Threadgill’s, Austin, Texas.

Threadgill’s Home Cooking
The Food: On my most recent visit, I had the fried chicken livers ($8.95 with 2 sides).  As usual they were perfectly breaded- crispy and not too greasy, with amazing cream gravy on the side.  This is true cream gravy- it’s not like any you’ve had before.  Meals are served with fresh [...]

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Austin

The Mighty Cone Threadgill’s Home Cooking(Two Austin Locations)

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Oklahoma City

Kendall’s Restaurant(Noble,OK)

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Dallas/Fort Worth

Dutch’s Burgers (Fort Worth)Fred’s Texas Cafe (Fort Worth) Texas Roadhouse (Everywhere)

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Review: Dutch’s Burgers, Fort Worth, Texas.

Dutch’s Burgers and Beer
The Food: Great, giant burgers. Great fries. Everyone was talking about the onion rings, but we didn’t try any on our visit. The bun is just good bread and meat was thick and juicy(not too greasy).
The Place: College hangout for TCU, but a mix of others at peak times. Tables are close [...]

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