Baes Fried Chicken
Restaurant in Portland, Oregon, U.S. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baes Fried Chicken, or Baes Chicken,[1] is a fried chicken restaurant with three locations in Portland, Oregon, United States. The original restaurant opened in Old Town Chinatown in November 2019. Outposts opened in southeast Portland's Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood in July 2020, and on Alberta Street in northeast Portland's Concordia neighborhood in January 2023. Baes has also been a vendor at the Moda Center.
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 Exterior of the original restaurant in Southwest Portland, Oregon, in 2022 | |
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| Food type | Southern |
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| City | Portland |
| State | Oregon |
| Country | United States |
| Coordinates | 45.5222°N 122.6729°W |
| Website | baeschicken |
Description
Baes Fried Chicken is a fried chicken restaurant with three locations in Portland; the business operates in Old Town Chinatown, in southeast Portland's Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood, and on Alberta Street in northeast Portland's Concordia neighborhood. Baes is also a vendor at the Moda Center, an arena in the Lloyd District.
Menu
The menu includes fried and grilled chicken as tenders, bone-in, or in sandwiches, as well as Southern-inspired[2] sides such as coleslaw, kale, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes, and waffle fries.[3] According to Brooke Jackson-Glidden of Eater Portland, "The restaurant was designed to be very friendly to takeout and delivery, focusing on speed and its ability to hold up when it travels."[4] Willamette Week has said the chicken is made "with ruthless efficiency and alarming consistency".[5]
The Alberta Street location serves "brunch dishes like chicken fried steak waffles, maple-bacon biscuits, and deviled eggs with smoked trout caviar".[6]
History
Restaurateur Micah Camden (Blue Star Donuts, Boxer Ramen, SuperDeluxe) and National Football League player Ndamukong Suh opened the original restaurant in Old Town Chinatown in November 2019,[4][7] in the space that previously housed Ash Street Saloon.[1] A thousand free chicken sandwiches were distributed on opening day.[8]
In mid 2020, the co-owners confirmed plans to open a second location on Bybee Boulevard in the Westmoreland district of Sellwood-Moreland, replacing a Boxer Ramen restaurant.[4] The restaurant opened in July.[9]
For the Super Bowl in 2021, Baes donated all proceeds from both locations to the Suh Family Foundation.[10] The restaurant was a vendor at the Moda Center, as of 2021.[11]
A third location opened on Alberta Street on January 14,[12] 2023.[13] It had closed by February 2025.[14]
Reception
The Oregonian's Michael Russell included Baes in a 2020 list of the city's 40 best inexpensive restaurants.[15] He has described the restaurant as "surprisingly tasty".[16] Nick Woo included Baes in Eater Portland's 2021 list of fourteen "outstanding" fried chicken sandwiches in the city and said the restaurant "does not disappoint".[7] Katherine Chew Hamilton included Baes in Portland Monthly's 2021 overview of the city's best fried chicken.[17]
See also
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