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Gus’s Fried Chicken in Mesa, Arizona<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As the crow flies, Nashville and Memphis are separated by about 210 miles. \u00a0You can get from one to the other of these two prominent Southern\u00a0cities–that are probably best known for their signature sounds–in a speedy three hours. \u00a0 \u00a0Nashville sits on the north-central part of the Volunteer State. \u00a0It’s considered the cradle of country music. \u00a0Legendary pantheons of country music include the Grand Ole Opry House, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and historic Ryman Auditorium. \u00a0Honky-tonks throughout the city feature live music as aspiring artists and song-writers compete to be noticed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Memphis, progenitor of the blues, soul and rock n’roll, borders the mighty Mississippi at Tennessee’s west flank. \u00a0Popular landmarks include the Rock n’ Soul Museum, Blues Hall of Fame and\u00a0Elvis Presley’s Graceland. \u00a0Beale Street<\/strong><\/a>, “America’s most iconic street,” is home to B. B. King’s Blues Club and a number of other clubs which feature the blues, soul and rock n’roll. \u00a0No other state can legitimately claim to be birthplace of four distinct genres of music as Tennessee does. \u00a0If you’re an aficionado of country, blues, soul and rock n’ roll, there’s nowhere else you might aspire to be.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Gus’s Dining Room<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It isn’t solely music for which Nashville and Memphis inspire resfeber (the excitement that floods a traveller\u2019s heart before the journey begins when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together). \u00a0Both cities have become pilgrimage-worthy dining destinations. \u00a0Memphis-style barbecue, of course, is considered \u00a0is one of the four predominant regional styles of barbecue in the United States. As with many southern varieties of barbecue, Memphis-style barbecue is mostly made using pork–usually ribs and shoulders–though at many Memphis restaurants you can still find beef, chicken and (my favorite) baloney.<\/span><\/p>\n

Since about 2016, few dishes have captured the national imagination more than Nashville-style hot chicken, fried chicken that\u2019s taken a bath in an incendiary cayenne-paprika chile sauce. Even\u00a0\u00a0KFC\u2019s jumped on the bandwagon<\/strong><\/a>. Nashville-style hot fried chicken restaurants have popped up throughout the country. Nashville hot chicken isn\u2019t for the pusillanimous poultry-paramour. Most restaurants offer several levels of heat, but even \u201cmild\u201d is generally pretty spicy. At its upper levels of piquancy, the heat will test your mettle and could reduce grown men to weepy boys crying for their mothers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fried Okra<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Having scalded and scorched my tongue and taste buds with the most torturous levels of heat to be found, I’m a big fan of Nashville hot chicken. \u00a0It’s not, however, the challenge of eating food that may have been prepared by Charon (the ferryman of Hades who carries souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx) that’s garnered my affection. \u00a0Nashville hot chicken has got to have a balance of heat and flavor. \u00a0It’s a delicate balance that could be unsatisfactory if that balance tips too much to the incendiary side. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

That’s why the chicken that’s earned by undying love is Memphis style chicken, specifically Gus’s World-Famous Fried Chicken. While Nashville\u2019s incendiary, cayenne-heavy, finger-dying hot chicken may be all the rage, Music City\u2019s piquant poultry seems to be about demonstrating that pain is a flavor.\u00a0 Gus\u2019s fried chicken, on the other hand, is all about flavors that titillate your taste buds and linger on your lips.\u00a0 Sure, it\u2019s got heat, but just enough to give you a buzz, not to scald your mouth\u2026and it doesn\u2019t leave your fingers oily and orange.\u00a0 Moreover, it\u2019s absolutely delicious, easily the best spicy fried chicken we\u2019ve ever had. \u00a0We discovered Gus’s in Austin<\/strong><\/a>, Texas in 2018 and have ached to return.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two Breasts, A Thigh, Baked Beans and Coleslaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That\u2019s not just my opinion. Gus\u2019s 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. In 2018, for example, The Daily Meal went in search of the best fried chicken places in America<\/strong><\/a> and rated Gus\u2019s second from among 75 purveyors of palate-pleasing poultry (Stroud\u2019s<\/strong><\/a> of Kansas City, my personal favorite ranked 13th). Other national publications, including Saveur and GQ have accorded similar praise. GQ once called Gus\u2019s Fried Chicken one of the top ten meals in the United States. Its birthplace of Memphis may be considered a barbecue hotbed, but culinary-crazed chicken aficionados pilgrimage to Gus\u2019s even before we take in Graceland.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the 65 years since its founding, Gus\u2019s Fried Chicken has seen significant expansion. It now has a presence in some 35 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\u2019s exalted 75). It\u2019s probably safe to assume that wherever Gus\u2019s launches, it quickly becomes a local favorite. Gus\u2019s World Famous Fried Chicken lives up to the hype\u2013and then some. It\u2019s several orders of magnitude better than the Cajun fried chicken we enjoyed throughout the Deep South. Popeye\u2019s isn\u2019t even in the same stratosphere.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Two Breasts and a Leg with Seasoned Fries and Coleslaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In January 2021, the first Arizona location of the self- (and perfectly) described Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken opened in downtown Mesa. Gus\u2019s in Mesa is situated in the bustling historic area where parking nearby is remarkably easy. \u00a0Gus\u2019s doesn\u2019t serve fried chicken by the bucket, but you can get a \u201csnack sized\u201d portion with as many as 20 pieces. You can also purchase it by the individual piece (breast, thigh, leg, wing) or by the plate where it\u2019s served with baked beans, slaw and white bread though substitutions will cost a bit more. A half-chicken, one of each piece, is a good bet. <\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s no one quality that makes Gus\u2019s fried chicken special. From the outside in let\u2019s start with the crust. It\u2019s the antithesis of the heavily breaded (and much dreaded) fried chicken of which Gil\u2019s Thrilling\u2026 has often lamented. Peanut oil renders the chicken crispy, glistening to an mahogany-hued color. This is crust you\u2019ll want to eat, not discard like some offensive shell. You\u2019ll feel the heat emanating from the Gus\u2019s crust right away. It then settles in with its pleasant piquancy, revealing a deeper, more complex flavor profile. The chicken is tender, moist and flavorful down to the bone (the only part of the bird we didn\u2019t eat), with a just right salty undercurrent. It\u2019s practically life-altering. So are the baked beans, some of \u00a0the best I\u2019ve ever had. I\u2019m still cursing myself for not having ordered a double portion.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Chocolate Chess Pie A La Mode<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kathleen, our gracious server, told us we couldn’t leave without having a slice of chess pie a la mode<\/strong><\/em>. \u00a0How can you say no to such a delicious invitation. \u00a0Besides we haven’t had a good chess pie since leaving Mississippi in 1995. \u00a0According to What’s Cooking America, “chess pies are a Southern specialty that has simple filling of eggs, sugar, butter and a small amount of butter. \u00a0Flavorings such as vanilla, lemon juice or chocolate are also added to vary the basic recipe<\/em>.” \u00a0“The origin of the name, Chess Pie, is uncertain, but there are plenty of guesses and a bit of folklore surrounding the name. \u00a0The most probable explanation is that since the English lemon curd pie filling is very close to lemon chess pie, and they believe the word \u201cchess\u201d is an Americanization of the English word \u201ccheese,\u201d referring to curd pie. \u00a0Basically the Chess Pie is a cheese-less cheesecake<\/em>.” \u00a0Gus’s chocolate chess pie is a checkmate.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s very telling that whenever Gus\u2019s World-Famous Fried Chicken launches in a new location, it\u2019s 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

Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken<\/strong>
\n212 West Main Street
\nMesa, Arizona<\/strong>
\n(480) 590-0404
\nWebsite<\/strong><\/a> | Facebook Page<\/strong><\/a>
\nLATEST VISIT<\/strong>: 30 April 2022
\n# OF VISITS<\/strong>: 1
\nRATING<\/strong>: N\/R
\nCOST<\/strong>: $$
\nBEST BET<\/strong>: Fried Chicken (Breasts, Thighs, Legs), Coleslaw, Baked Beans, Seasoned Fries, Chocolate Chesspie A La Mode
\nREVIEW #1269<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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