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Soul Food Restaurant

Chicago’s Home of Chicken and Waffles

About

Chicago’s Home of Chicken and Waffles is a soul food restaurant on South King Drive in Bronzeville, built around fried chicken served with waffles. The menu also covers fried catfish dinners, wings, omelettes and sides such as candied yams and mac and cheese, with desserts like Mama Bren’s Peach Cobbler and Ms. Diane’s Strawberry Banana Pudding. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are on the menu.

What to know

  • Tonya and Darnell Johnson opened the King Drive restaurant in 2008, the Wednesday Journal reported in 2010.
  • The restaurant first opened as Rosscoes House of Chicken and Waffles and was renamed after legal action by Roscoe’s House of Chicken n’ Waffles in Los Angeles.
  • A second location is at 543 Madison St in Oak Park.
  • The menu lists a house dish called The Chicago Waffle.
  • Children 10 and under can order the Junior’s Kiddie Special.

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