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Challenge: The best under-$20 chicken meal in Boston

By adamg on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 10:40am

Patrick Maguire thinks it's the pan roasted free range chicken with oyster mushrooms, potato purée and savory pan drippings at Metropolis in the South End for $18.95 (complete with before and after pix and an interview with the chef). But he challenges you to prove him wrong.

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By got2trotlibrarian on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 10:56am.

Best chicken meal in Boston under $20 is the chicken Chacarero!

By Sarcastic Sam on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 11:05am.

Two of them!

By anon on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 11:09am.

I think I would go with anything from the Hen House in Roxbury.

By eeka on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 10:06pm.

Two anon comments in two days attesting to how great the Hen House is but without any content beyond that. Tell us why it's great in an interesting sort of way that makes us believe that you're an actual person who dines there.

By Dan Farnkoff on Wed, 06/23/2010 - 9:22am.

Never had chicken and waffles before this place opened- turns out it's a great meal. Real spicy wings, cool down with the butter and maple syrup. Open late on weekends- we'd eat there on break from the overnight shift on occasion. Got ribs there once as well- they were good. Chicken and waffles is like $7.50 without a drink I think.

By Phillip on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 11:34am.

Machu Picchu charcoal chicken in Union Sq. Somerville hands down.

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 12:07pm.

$11.99 gets you a big slab of perfect chicken-fried boneless chicken with white gravy, mashed potatoes, and tomato-fennel yumness.

By anon on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 3:21pm.

Fine people, great beer selection, but not the kind of place that has "the best" anything. Those who say it does are the same crowd who didn't realize that the phrase "Davis Square is the Paris of the 90's" was meant to be ironic... and have apartments in Somerville and always tell you that they're "right next to Cambridge."

By SwirlyGrrl on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 5:58pm.

So that must be why a friend who lives in the South makes a beeline for the place when he hits town.

Truth be told, Redbones is a madhouse on weekends and costs a lot more too - I usually go on weekdays when its quieter and has specials.

Paris of the 90s? LOL. Never heard that, and I've been hanging out there since the 90s. Plaster of, perhaps. It is a great place for people of all ages to eat and see a movie and nom ice cream and such, or to walk home from after one too many beers and still make it back to get the car before the meters start the next day. I saw just about every age group and family configuration around when people watching on Friday night - many of the hipsters are gone for the summer now.

By bandit on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 7:26pm.

...as one of the hippest areas in the nation to live, and called it "the Paris of the 90's". a bunch of us living there just laughed and laughed.

we all stopped laughing when our rents went up.

By Ron Newman on Mon, 06/21/2010 - 10:39pm.

Contrary to what almost everyone around here thinks, the phrase "Paris of the 90s" appears nowhere in that infamous Utne Reader article. This is the entirety of what they said about Davis Square:

"Out in Somerville, a blue-collar suburb of Boston awash in artistic-energy spillover from Cambridge, something is happening. Two of the 20 young writers in Granta’s fiction issue last year hail from here, and a lively cultural milieu has popped up around Davis Square. With its bookstores, Irish pubs, and adventuresome Somerville Theater, it's an alternative to franchise-filled Harvard Square."

By bandit on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 9:01am.

... that the print version was slighly different from the online version, because i do actually recall that phrase being used in a side-bar on the article. i had a subscription at the time. crud, i know i have it somewhere in storage. if i find it, i'll try to scan it.

By anon on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 10:16am.

that Ron has that copy of the Utne Reader lying around.

By Ron Newman on Tue, 06/22/2010 - 9:23pm.

All I have is a link to the web version. To settle this, one of us will need to visit a library.