Hollywood Fried Chicken
“The mashed potatoes and biscuit were nothing to write home about, but complimented the succulent chicken nicely.”
“(Late night just take it to go could be sketchy at times with the hood punks) love it with cholula hot sauce 🙂 yumm just do sit up the next day.”
“Hollywood has saved me from a terrible hangover a couple of times now, and for that I'm grateful.”
Hollywood Fried Chicken
Take-out: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Groups: Yes
Price range.
$ Price range Under $10
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Spread throughout downtown Jersey City, there are a few restaurants resisting the recent influx of artisinal dining establishments. Hollywood Fried Chicken is definitely one of the most prominent rebels.
To call this place a restaurant is an exaggeration. There may be tables and seats, but it's not somewhere you want to sit and enjoy your meal, unless its 3:00am in the morning and you've been drinking all night. The interior isn't kept very clean and the fellow patrons can be kind of shady.
The food itself is pretty decent. While some people will only eat here as a late-night stop. I can happily say it's good even when you're not under the influence. The prices range depending on what you want to order. The walls are covered with tons of meal options.
The staff are as nice as can be expected for a place that will actually sell you individual pieces of fried chicken. Most of the conversation with them involves having your order repeated.
Environment: 1/5
Food: 3/5
Price: 5/5
Service: 2/5
With no Popeyes or KFC restaurants within reasonable walking distance, Hollywood Fried Chicken pretty much as a monopoly on the downtown fried chicken market. We all know it's bad for us, but if you do have a craving, their food will hit the spot.
This is your chicken joint. Not classy. Probably best visited for the first time after midnight but note that it often attracts a tougher crowd. You must make sure you have a fresh batch of chicken. It makes a world of difference. When I need a fried chicken fix, this is the place. I truly believe it blows the chain chicken places away. My wife doesn't completely agree but she likes the chicken too.
This place wants so bad to be a prototypical hood chicken spot. Its not, but the fried chicken isn't too bad (though it lacks the crunch that I desire). My dinner box came with a biscuit (good), coleslaw and mashed potatoes with gravy. The portions of the latter two were small, and they lacked any sort of flavor. Prices aren't too bad and I like that it's open til 4 AM but I won't be back unless I'm in Jersey City around that time and starving.
Finally made it here with a belly full of booze – finally gets it's upgrade from 3 to 4 stars!
Gotta say, it was much better and woke up with no hangover.
Thanks Hollywood Chicken!
This time, I went sober. This is risky, since I had a great experience when I was drunk. What if this place actually sucked and it was just the alcohol talking?? Turns out, that's not the case.
I came here at midnight with four of my male friends after raging at Electric Zoo. We were starving. We looked at thr menu and we decided to split a dinner bucket: 18 pieces of chicken, 4 biscuits, mash potatoes and potato salad. That's what it said on the menu at least. Thr guy actually gave us a choice of potato salad, macaroni salad or cole slaw. We took so long deciding that he gave us both the macaroni salad and cole slaw. We also waited like 10-15 minutes for our order because it was so big. They didnt have enough pieces left to fill our order immediately. I was ok with that. After all, we get a fresh batch of chicken!
We got back to my apartment, whipped out the food and watched Scrubs. It was the perfect ending to an awesome day. The chicken was AH-MAZING. It might have been better when I was sober. The chicken is juicy, well seasoned and the skin was crispy. Pure heaven. The biscuits were really good as well. I was a little less than happy when they forgot my biscuit last time, so I was hoping this wouldn't repeat. Thankfully it didn't. I'm not a fan of cole slaw or macaroni salad, but the guys loved it. They also loved the chicken and biscuits. The mash was good as well. Looks kind of cheap but doesn't taste like that at all.
Oh and this costs us $25 total, including tax. It was a great deal! For $5 a person, we had a delicious late night meal. Overall, great food and will certainly be back again!
Sadly, this is one of the only places open late at night. CASH ONLY!
Atmosphere: This place is infested with random drunks, and ghetto people looking to get their fried chicken fix.
Food: I got the 2 piece meal with mashed potatoes and a drink. Food is REALLY cheap, but you get what you pay for. The chicken is small and flavorless. The skin is at least nice and crispy, but it still tastes like garbage. The mashed potatoes come in a small cup used for raita at indian stores (like 4 spoonfuls) thankfully its small, b/c it tastes like my little cousin made them (she's 3 and likes to eat glue). They tasted really starchy and nasty and like actual glue. GO FOR THE FRIES INSTEAD.
After eating, I was happy to be finished, but still hungry, not only does it taste bad, but it still doesn't satisfy any craving or hunger you have. I WAS SOBER at the time, so I was actually able to taste the disappointment the chicken felt while iit was being cooked….
If you are out for a late night of drinking and looking for sown thing greasy this is the place! The chicken sandwich is tasty and filling and actually tastes like McChicken. The fried chicken and fries are usually hot and crispy. Their portions are also generous considering the price.
Don't get the beef patty (looks like an empanada) because the filling is absloutly discussing. It tastes like flavored sand inside cardboard.
It's ok for fried chicken in walking distance downtown. The Crown is a lot better, but it's in a rough neighborhood and you'll have to drive to get there. The food is cheap and hits the spot if you're in the mood for fried chicken, fish, shrimp, whatever. Get it to go though unless you want to deal with sketchy clientele.