Fields Good Chicken
“I have tried the Bueno bowl and the country bbq and both are delicious and very filling.”
“give them a chance in a sea of food chains and over priced bad food (FiDi).”
“Ever since leaving my job in the Financial District I have craved their BBQ bowl with extra rice and a side of chopped avocados.”
Fields Good Chicken
Take-out: Yes
Accepts Credit Cards: Yes
Bike Parking: Yes
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes
Good for Kids: Yes
Price range.
$$ Price range $11-30
8 reviews
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Really tasty and healthy salad for lunch. Good quality ingredients. Great options. Perfect portion.
I probably eat lunch here once a week.
I get a half chicken with side of brussel sprouts and side of black beans and corn.
OMG it is so good and filling as well.
Honestly, it could have a long line but is so worth the wait fresh ingredients and great food, what more can one ask for.
Came back to this spot after trying it at an Elite Event. The line at lunch is crazy, but so is every other good spot in the area.
They have lots of healthy options to choose from and they are quite filling. I prefer the bowls for lunch, but the sandwiches are also quite good. I recommend the Harvest sandwich or the healthy Kale salad – it all comes with chicken of course!
Happy to see this place is still working its magic and bringing more healthy choices for lunch to the area.
Very, very delicious option for lunch. my favorite the Bueno bowl, which is made of the grilled mojo chicken (gluten-free), guacamole, black beans, tomato, and brown rice. It's basically a trendy and healthy version of chipotle. The majority of the ingredients just tasted standard, nothing extraordinary but delicious nonetheless. What's really memorable is the chicken! It was so soft, juicy and flavorful. The Bueno bowl is also slightly spicy so perfect for the spice-lovers out there!
I've also tried the Zeus bowl. For me, the main difference between the Zeus and the Bueno is that one has Greek yogurt and the other has guacamole.
Also ordered a side dish of Brussels sprouts! I am traumatized by the bland Brussels sprouts that I've eaten all my life in school, so I usually have nothing good to say about Brussels sprouts, but these one were actually very well flavored! I would recommend it.
If you're hungry but want to be slightly more healthy, the salads are actually very filling, in particular the Cobb Salad. While I wouldn't say the Cobb is the healthiest of all salads (I mean, it has blue cheese and bacon…), it still has greens, avocado, and egg whites! Basically (almost) healthy but cheating a little bit.
The line can get a bit long during lunch (literally out the door) so if you're in a rush, try to get hear before or after the peak 12-1 time! I would say this is definitely the best healthy lunch option I've had in FiDi.
Another fast casual entry in this very crowded restaurant segment, Fields Good Chicken stands out because of their commitment to quality ingredients.
My go to item is the Cobb salad ($11.25) – it is always delicious and has the same ingredient list that goes into a traditional cobb – deliciously moist grilled chicken (it is amazing here), romaine, tomatoes, a whole sliced egg, fresh avocado, bacon, tangy blue cheese and a tasty white balsamic vinaigrette. It's delicious every time I've had it.
For dinner one can order a whole chicken and two large sides for $27.25. Although not a steal of a deal, the chicken is always very, very good and will serve two people just fine. You do get to choose from one of their sauces, but they're unnecessary and frankly the BBQ is just not good.
The side items, $3.25 for a small and $6.25 for a large a la carte, are ok but for the price I'm not sure the value is so great. The two sides I like are the black beans with grilled corn, which is the kind of salad you might see at a summer picnic and quite tasty while the white beans could use a little flavor pick me up. The rosemary potatoes are pretty lame and are usually overcooked with burnt rosemary leaves throughout.
Even after being open for a while there are still service problems. The open kitchen layout exposes all the weakness of this type of restaurant when not managed properly and Fields Good Chicken has yet to address and solve the following issues: chronically running out of food items (including chicken!!!), unprofessional chit chat between team members, and a kitchen and dining room that look less than pristine.
The lunch crush makes this tiny place packed very quickly and you will likely need to carry out your food during peak times since seating is very limited Speaking of time, if there is a line of more than 15 people you may spend up to 25 minutes getting through it, which is not particularly 'fast.'
For now I'm going to keep visiting Fields Good Chicken for dinner when I'm craving a delicious cobb salad, which is pretty often these days – I'm just hoping they don't run out of chicken before 7:30 PM.
6/6/16 – updated rating to two stars. Why? Because they're out of chicken at 915pm. If it were the first time that this has happened it would be a-ok but sad to say it happens more often than it should. The last time it was the salad dressing for my Cobb so that was not a big deal, but chicken? Hell no!
Came here with a friend for dinner and reasoned that it was logical to get a whole chicken (with two small sides) to split between us. It only came out to about $24, which is $12 each, which is what a meal there would cost anyways.
The chicken is delicious, soft, and flavorful. My friend and I were both surprised at how soft it was even though it sits in the warming oven, we thought it'd be dry, but it wasn't at all. For sides, we got the black beans with corn and apple slaw. The slaw was refreshing and I would definitely recommend.
This place has seating, but I imagine it's packed around lunch time. Since we were eating in, they even gave us real plates to use. Very unexpected for a place like this.
Overall, would recommend for lunch or dinner.
Order the whole bird, because it is juicy and delicious, but also because when they cook the parts separately, they start cutting it up when it's still steaming, I've witnessed them doing this multiple times, which explains why–while the whole bird is delicious–the wraps and salads leave something to be desired, because all the flavor all gets left on the cutting-board. However, the sides are pretty good, I love the Brussels Sprouts & the Apple Slaw.
Also, they really need to work on how employees communicate to one another, because, today, for example, even though we were the only group in line, there were five people behind the counter all of whom got our order wrong again and again, they gave us the wrong sauce, they gave us to go containers rather than plates for eating in, they gave us one small side and one large side rather than two large sides, they had to ask four different times if we wanted our chicken cut or whole, things kept getting passed back and forth from person to person because nobody seemed to know what was expected of them or how to do it, they billed us for a large bottle of water when we only bought a small, they ran our single form of payment three times because they were somehow confused that we were a group eating together (even though we placed only one order for one large combination platter), and the person behind the counter spent at least five minutes trying to explain why things were going wrong rather than just letting us go eat, and then, worst of all, while we were eating, the manager kept nagging at the employees very loudly about why not to put certain things certain places…
Prices have skyrocketed. Also they use to let you swap out fixings for other fixings…as if you don't want the nasty appleslaw (why would you) and you want to exchange it….for another fixing…they charge you. That doesn't make my chicken feel so good. I'm done. Will not be returning when you can go to chipolite where it's cheaper.