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Who Makes the Best Chicken Dinner in Seattle?

Big Chickie’s chicken dinner.

Two very different chicken shacks are going strong in south Seattle: Big Chickie Pollo a la Brasa in Hillman City, and Nate’s Wings and Waffles in Rainier Beach.

Yeah, they’re both about chicken and sides. They’re both casual, order-at-the-counter setups. They both offer a version of that 2015 requisite, kale salad. And they’re each named after a personage—the former, owner Matt Stubb’s mom, nicknamed Chickie; the latter, co-owner and local boy-gone-Denver Nuggets hoop star Nate Robinson.

But that’s where the similarities end. Want to know more? Check out my chicken shack smackdown in the January issue of Seattle Met.

 











Kathryn Robinson
Kathryn Robinson
Senior Writer Seattle native Kathryn Robinson, award-winning restaurant critic and senior writer at Seattle Met, has been anonymously reviewing restaurants for over 30 years—first as editor of the Best Places guidebook series, then as staff critic at Seattle Weekly and contributing critic at The Seattle Times and Seattle magazine.  Midcareer she spent a year-long sabbatical studying comparative religion as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University where she had been an undergrad 10 years earlier, gaining a knowledge base she now calls upon for her monthly “Back Fence” column on our collective urban existence and the meaning it holds for our personal lives. In her off hours she is a partner and a parent—which means she has no off hours.