Pies & Thighs
October 29, 2010 by Feisty Foodie
Filed under American, Americas, Around NYC, Brooklyn, By Name, Cheap Eats, Cuisine, Restaurants
I walked by Madison Square Mark’t a few weeks before it was set to close, and decided that since I hadn’t been able to eat the chicken biscuit at Pies & Thighs last time, and had really loved biscuit by itself, I should get a chicken biscuit. First, though, a sweet tea.
In all its piping hot glory. A biscuit is pulled open and slathered, I mean bathed, I mean covered in huge slabs of honey butter, then a thin fried chicken breast cutlet is slipped in with some hot sauce.
Do you see what I see?
Honey butter running down for its life… get in muh bellay!!!
First bites – tender, flaky biscuit, drenched in honey butter. Crisp chicken, with a small kick from the hot sauce.
For $6 ($5 at the Brooklyn storefront), this is solidly yummy, perfectly suitable as a snack for the bigger eaters among us, and a meal for the smaller eaters. Yum!
Yvo says: I wish the Madison Square Mark’t stand was still open, but you can get this at the Brooklyn storefront, so why wouldn’t you?! It’s $5! Yum!!! (Okay, I admit, I wish they offered a dark meat option, but I’ll take this… I think the excess honey butter makes up for it.
recommended
That looks dangerous. I’d eat it but feel like crap afterwords.
Dark meat FTW.
mmmm, fried chicken.
Whoa. Hooray for that chicken biscuit! Mmm, grease bomb.
Oooh, I grabbed one of those after a rough day at work, and it was delicious!! When are they opening a permanent Manhattan location??
I didn’t try the chicken at all–or anything from pies and thighs. the fried chicken looked a bit generic, and something I could easily do myself, and I’m not a big pie guy… Now I feel silly—a little. I will miss the pretzels and canolis a lot though…
It would take like… 4 or 5 of those to constitute a meal proper. Do they sell honey butter in squirt bottles? 1. that’d be awesome if they did 2. I would like to place an order for a box of ‘em.
I went to the MSP stand a few Saturdays ago and got the chicken biscuit, too — but I was given exactly one bite of it. Really good bite, though. Looking for an excuse to return to the original one, and it’s only a couple blocks from a few drinking establishments I frequent…