TheOutdoorGuy
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We first heard about Cooper's when we went to the festival Ben gordonsville. We heard so much about it and couldn't wait to try the chicken. When we finally found their stand, the line was just astronomically long. We walk by it as they're cooking the chicken and it smelled really good. We were too hungry to wait in line so we decided to walk up the street to an actual restaurant. We've been to that restaurant many times but this will be the first time we tried their chicken. We were completely stunned by how good the chicken was.
We even walked back to the festival to see if the line had gone down for Cooper's, which it did not. We were unaware that they had a restaurant as we drive by this place all the time.
We decided to go recently. There's plenty of parking, and the restaurant itself is semi hidden from the roadway. The signage is not that great, until you actually show up to the actual restaurant pull into the parking lot. Upon entering, we were immediately hit with a heavy smoky oil feel. To be honest with you as soon as we entered all the eyes of everybody that was in there went right to us. I didn't really care at all, I believe it was just more of a curiosity thing of who was coming in.
There was only one booth open which had not been cleaned yet which was taken care of very quickly, we sat down and provided menus. The obvious choice was to order the fried chicken with a couple of sides.
When we receive the food, the fried Chicken was hot, the macaroni that I got was lukewarm, and the french fries that I got were lukewarm. The flavor for the french fries was what you would expect, and the macaroni I actually liked the flavor, however the issue that I had was the temperature.
Now on to the chicken itself. The chicken was okay. I was not a fan of the actual breading of the chicken. It was too thin however the chicken was not soggy when you buy into it. And the flavor of it was slightly bland.
The chicken that we had at the festival at the restaurant by comparison was crunchy and a thicker breading which is something that I am used to when it comes to fried chicken. The seasoning with the other restaurant was significantly better. I was really looking forward to eating here.
The staff were friendly and fairly attentive.
Unfortunately another negative to this experience was about 20 minutes later we had to find a bathroom which we did not have when we went to the other restaurant. We both had to go at the same time which immediately told us that it was the food at this restaurant. I'm glad we went there to try it out, however I don't think we'll be returning.