{"id":50316,"date":"2018-11-23T23:18:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T05:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=50316"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T17:36:11","slug":"guss-world-famous-fried-chicken-austin-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=50316","title":{"rendered":"GUS&#8217;S WORLD-FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN &#8211; Austin, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_50317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50317\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50317 size-full lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 750px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 750\/500;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus01.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus01.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 750w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus01-300x200.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus01.jpg?size=128x85&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 128w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus01.jpg?size=384x256&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 384w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus01.jpg?size=512x341&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 512w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus01.jpg?size=640x427&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gus&#8217;s Fried Chicken, a Memphis Legend in Austin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">When I told my friend Carlos my Kim and I would be enjoying Gus&#8217;s World Famous Fried Chicken during our trip to Austin, he quipped &#8220;<em>when did Los Pollos Hermanos open a restaurant in Texas<\/em>?&#8221;.\u00a0 Wrong Gus.\u00a0 Obviously Carlos was joking about Gus Fring, the stoic Argentinian entrepreneur on the Albuquerque-based <em>Breaking Bad<\/em> television series.\u00a0 Gus Fring, as you might recall, used his fried chicken franchise Los Pollos Hermanos as a front for methamphetamine distribution throughout the American Southwest.\u00a0 The Colonel may have had eleven herbs and spices, but Gus had blue-hued crystal meth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">The Gus&#8217;s World Famous Fried Chicken of which I spoke is a burgeoning franchise which got its start in Memphis, Tennessee.\u00a0 While Nashville&#8217;s incendiary, cayenne-heavy, finger-dying<em> hot chicken <\/em>may be all the rage, Music City&#8217;s piquant poultry seems to be about testing your mettle and demonstrating pain is a flavor.\u00a0 Gus&#8217;s fried chicken, on the other hand, is all about flavors that titillate your taste buds and linger on your lips.\u00a0 Sure, it&#8217;s got heat, but just enough to give you a buzz, not to scald your mouth&#8230;and it doesn&#8217;t leave your fingers oily and orange.\u00a0 Moreover, it&#8217;s absolutely delicious, easily the best spicy fried chicken we&#8217;ve ever had. <\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50319\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50319\" style=\"width: 525px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50319 size-full lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 525px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 525\/700;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus03.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"700\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus03.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 525w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus03-225x300.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 225w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus03.jpg?size=128x171&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 128w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus03.jpg?size=384x512&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 384w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entrance to the World-Famous Poultry Palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">That&#8217;s not just my opinion.\u00a0 Gus&#8217;s fried chicken has been touted by culinary cognoscenti as some of the best fried chicken prepared under spacious skies, and not just of the spicy genre.\u00a0 In 2018, for example, The Daily Meal went in search of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailymeal.com\/best-fried-chicken-america-2018-gallery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>best fried chicken places in America<\/strong><\/a> and rated Gus&#8217;s second from among 75 purveyors of palate-pleasing poultry (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=17564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Stroud&#8217;s<\/strong><\/a> of Kansas City, my personal favorite ranked 13th).\u00a0 Other national publications, including Saveur and GQ have accorded similar praise.\u00a0 GQ once called Gus\u2019s Fried Chicken one of the top ten meals in the United States.\u00a0 Its birthplace of Memphis may be considered a barbecue hotbed, but culinary-crazed chicken aficionados pilgrimage to Gus&#8217;s even before we take in Graceland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">In the 65 years since its founding, Gus&#8217;s Fried Chicken has seen significant expansion.\u00a0 It now has a presence in some <a href=\"http:\/\/gusfriedchicken.com\/#locations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>26\u00a0 locations<\/strong><\/a> across the fruited plain, including several cities that already had long-established nationally-touted fried chicken restaurants (Austin, for example, had two fried chicken restaurants rated among The Daily Meal&#8217;s exalted 75).\u00a0 It&#8217;s probably safe to assume that wherever Gus&#8217;s launches, it quickly becomes a local favorite.\u00a0 Gus&#8217;s World Famous Fried Chicken lives up to the hype&#8211;and then some.\u00a0 It&#8217;s several orders of magnitude better than the Cajun fried chicken we enjoyed throughout the Deep South.\u00a0 Popeye&#8217;s isn&#8217;t even in the same stratosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50439\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50439\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50439 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 750px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 750\/563;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus04.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"563\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus04.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 750w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus04-300x225.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus04.jpg?size=128x96&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 128w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus04.jpg?size=384x288&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 384w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus04.jpg?size=512x384&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 512w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus04.jpg?size=640x480&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50439\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gus&#8217;s Dining Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">Gus&#8217;s in Austin is situated in the bustling downtown area where parking nearby is just a pipe dream.\u00a0 Your walk will just build up your anticipation as will waiting in line behind equally famished diners then waiting even longer for your order to be filled.\u00a0 Gus&#8217;s doesn&#8217;t serve fried chicken by the bucket, but you can get a &#8220;snack sized&#8221; portion with as many as 20 pieces.\u00a0 You can also purchase it by the individual piece (breast, thigh, leg, wing) or by the plate where it&#8217;s served with baked beans, slaw and white bread though substitutions will cost a bit more.\u00a0 A <em><strong>half-chicken<\/strong><\/em>, one of each piece, is a good bet.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>17 November 2018<\/strong>: There&#8217;s no one quality that makes Gus&#8217;s fried chicken special.\u00a0 From the outside in let&#8217;s start with the crust.\u00a0 It&#8217;s the antithesis of the heavily breaded (and much dreaded) fried chicken of which Gil&#8217;s Thrilling&#8230; has often lamented.\u00a0 Peanut oil renders the chicken crispy, glistening to an mahogany-hued color.\u00a0 This is crust you&#8217;ll want to eat, not discard like some offensive shell.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll feel the heat emanating from the Gus\u2019s crust right away.\u00a0 It then settles in with its pleasant piquancy, revealing a deeper, more complex flavor profile.\u00a0 The chicken is tender, moist and flavorful down to the bone (the only part of the bird we didn&#8217;t eat), with a just right salty undercurrent.\u00a0 It&#8217;s practically life-altering.\u00a0 So are the baked beans, maybe the best I&#8217;ve ever had.\u00a0 I&#8217;m still cursing myself for not having ordered a double portion.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50320\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-50320 size-full lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 750px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 750\/636;border: 4px solid black; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px;\" data-src=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus02-1.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"636\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus02-1.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 750w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus02-1-300x254.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 300w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus02-1.jpg?size=128x109&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 128w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus02-1.jpg?size=384x326&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 384w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus02-1.jpg?size=512x434&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 512w, https:\/\/b4385483.smushcdn.com\/4385483\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Gus02-1.jpg?size=640x543&lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1 640w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Half Chicken with Baked Beans and Coleslaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>23 November 2018<\/strong>: As our week-long eating tour of Austin came to a close, we reminisced about each restaurant experience, ultimately concluding that the one restaurant we should again visit before leaving Texas was Gus&#8217;s.\u00a0 Even though we were quite sated after enjoying some of the very <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmgastronome.com\/?p=50431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>best pizza<\/strong><\/a> in the Lone Star State, we picked up two more half-chicken orders.\u00a0 It speaks volumes that even cold Gus&#8217;s fried chicken is swoon-inspiring.\u00a0 We may just have to move to Texas to enjoy it all the time.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\">It&#8217;s very telling that whenever Gus&#8217;s World-Famous Fried Chicken launches in a new location, it&#8217;s not viewed as an interloper there to supplant the local favorites, but as a very welcome and wonderful purveyor of transformative fried chicken almost everyone will love.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>GUS&#8217;S WORLD-FAMOUS FRIED CHICKEN<\/strong><br \/>\n117 San Jacinto<br \/>\n<strong>Austin, Texas<\/strong><br \/>\n(512) 574-4877<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/gusfriedchicken.com\/austin-texas-location\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Web Site<\/strong><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Guss-World-Famous-Fried-Chicken-Austin-TX-183421975187641\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>LATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 23 November 2018<br \/>\n<strong>1st VISIT<\/strong>: 17 November 2018<br \/>\n<strong># OF VISITS<\/strong>: 2<br \/>\n<strong>RATING<\/strong>: <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Outstanding<\/strong><\/span>\u2013A stand-out; delivers a memorable dining experience through a harmonious blend of exceptional food, attentive service, and consistent quality<br \/>\n<strong>COST<\/strong>: $$<br \/>\n<strong>BEST BET<\/strong>: Half Chicken, Coleslaw, Baked Beans, French Fries, Okra<br \/>\n<strong>REVIEW #1073<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I told my friend Carlos my Kim and I would be enjoying Gus&#8217;s World Famous Fried Chicken during our trip to Austin, he quipped &#8220;when did Los Pollos Hermanos open a restaurant in Texas?&#8221;.\u00a0 Wrong Gus.\u00a0 Obviously Carlos was joking about Gus Fring, the stoic Argentinian entrepreneur on the Albuquerque-based Breaking Bad television series.\u00a0 Gus Fring, as you might recall, used his fried chicken franchise Los Pollos Hermanos as a front for methamphetamine distribution throughout the American Southwest.\u00a0 The Colonel may have had eleven herbs and spices, but Gus had blue-hued crystal meth. 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