Cowboy Chicken has been a favorite of ours since the early '90's when we found them down on Greenville Avenue just north of Love Airport. While Sharon was in Presbyterian Hospital, Dallas down on Walnut Hill, we had made the trek from Fort Worth to North Dallas numerous times at all times of the day. Many times, those runs involved lunch or dinner time. We kept noticing this little place that looked a LOT like a recycled service station that, while it didn't look really great, sure had some great smells and aromas coming from it. On one of those passes, our "hungry's" took over and we just had to see what this place was all about! One bite and we were totally hooked! This was chicken, cooked whole, that literally melted in your mouth and the flavor, totally wood smoke, had permeated the chicken in just the right amount. It would have been easy for it to have overwhelmed the tastebuds, but this chicken was just plain done right!
The first thing that catches your eye as you enter the place, is the chicken cooker! It is a masterpiece for those of us who like to "smoke a little meat" occasionally. It is a MASSIVE brick rotisserie with the fire box all the way across the bottom of the back side of the cooker. The rotary is a double carousel, rotating horizontally, that holds 8 "sticks" of 4 chickens on each side. The carousel slowly rotates while the chickens just get a nice cooking tan! That gives up to 64 chickens at a time the opportunity to become some of the tastiest morsels that ever crossed your lips. This restaurant appears to have a duplicate cooker facing away from the dining room as well. Can you imagine 128 little chickens getting their "Eat Me" degree at the same time? The only source of heat is the wood firebox in the back. None of that "let's help it out with a little gas or electric" at this place! Eat your heart out, Ron Popiel! Set it and forget is has NO place in this cooking! This is what your little cooker wants to be when it grows up!! I want one of those Cowboy Chicken cookers! But when can I serve it all from a cooking?!?!?
Notice I haven't mentioned sides. They range to something for about everyone's taste. Yesterday we both had the creamed spinach and fried okra. Both were top-notch! There is a long list of items available and I have no reason to believe that any would be second rate! We split a Peach Cobbler for dessert without ice cream. It was tasty, but not fabulous. Should have had the ice cream along with it. It is one of the "one-dish" stir it all together, cobblers and comes out a little bit like a very moist peach cake instead of the traditional crusty cobbler. Not that that's bad, just not what we expected. This is a very minor item that in no way diminshes the dining experience. Your mileage may vary on this item!
Imagine our surprise when we found this new store on Hebron in Carrolton just down the street from where we're stayin in Plano. Sharon chose Cowboy Chicken for what she thought was going to be her "Last Supper" before surgery yesterday. Last year when we left here, the ground was just being broken for the start of this building and, voila, now there's Cowboy Chicken! Located just off the west side of the North Dallas Tollway at the West Park Exit, it is in the prime restaurant row portion of town.
Drive on in, you will NOT be disappointed.
Cowboy Chicken
3450 Hebron Parkway
Suite 100
Carrollton, TX 75010
(972) 267-2000
Thursday, September 4, 2008
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