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By Matthew Odam
| Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 06:11 PM
Top Notch’s classic sign on Burnett Road may give hamburgers top billing, but people flock to the no-frills joint for the fried chicken as much as anything else.
In his last review of the cash-only server of American classic, former Statesman food critic Dale Rice had the following to say about this week’s Your A-List winner:
“The fried chicken ($4.89 for a two-piece, white-and-dark-meat plate) was as crisp and non-oily as the onion rings, with juicy, tender, flavorful meat beneath that golden crust.
Served with fries, cole slaw and Texas toast — making the chicken a hearty meal — that fried poultry is no pushover, even on a table with tasty burgers.”
Top Notch
7525 Burnet Rd [map]
452-2181
Complete results
- Top Notch, 33 percent
- Hoover’s, 18 percent
- Threadgill’s, 9 percent
- Bush’s Chicken, 6 percent
- Nubian Queen Lola’s, 5 percent
- Dot’s, 5 percent
- Gene’s Poboys, 4 percent
- Hill’s, 4 percent
- Shoal Creek Saloon, 3 percent
- Arkie’s, 3 percent
- Terry’s Seafood and Chicken, 2 percent
- Evangeline Cafe, 2 percent
- Broken Spoke, 2 percent
- Tony’s Southern Comfort, 2 percent
- Ms. B’s, 2 percent
- Iron Gate Lounge, < 1 percent
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