Best Fried Chicken in Adelaide

There's a sort of primitive pleasure to eating fried chicken. You're gnawing the bones to get at the last morsels of meat and your fingers are all covered in grease. It's real caveman stuff. Would you have it any other way, though? It's way more fun than using cutlery or even nibbling carefully at the edge of a burrito.

So choose a style (American? Korean?), a cut (thigh? wing?) and your spice level, and get stuck in.

Kokko

At this playground-inspired Korean fried chicken shop, everything's made by hand by Seoul native Julie Kim.

Shop 1 1 Margaret Street, Norwood

Buk Buk Southern Hot

Spicy buttermilk fried chicken – with heat levels ranging from Mom & Pop to All Money In – plus waffle fries, mac’n’cheese, gelato and craft beers.

1/254 Grange Road, Flinders Park

Little Ban Ban

Franklin Street’s popular fried chicken and beer joint doing a grab-and-go menu for the lunchtime crowd.

Level 1 Rundle Mall Plaza, Adelaide

Gunbae Chicken and Beer

A no-nonsense East End eatery doing just what it says on the tin: fried chicken and cold beer.

11-29 Union Street, Adelaide

NOLA

This New Orleans inspired bar claims to have "the juiciest fried chicken you'll eat" and they're not wrong.

28 Vardon Avenue, Adelaide

Plus 82 Pocha

Listen to K-pop while you eat fried chicken and kimchi until 1am.

Shop 3 25 Grenfell Street, Adelaide

CnB

This casual Korean fried chicken joint, by the Plus 82 Pocha Crew, is a love letter to the street food of Seoul. Grab Korean corn dogs, spicy fried chook and burgers to-go, or pull up a stool in the LED-lit, orange and blue diner.

Shop 9-10 177-193 The Parade, Norwood