Chris E.
Yelp
Great fried chicken at The Bourse!
I don't know what the other vendors are like at The Bourse, but if you have to choose one to eat from, you cannot go wrong with Freebyrd Chicken!
Recently, my wife, my son and I visited The Bourse on Independence Day weekend and, to our disappointment, almost every vendor was closed ... on Independence Day weekend?! In Philadelphia?! We were quite shocked that nothing was open here considering it was a holiday weekend in the city where the nation was born. However, in came Freebyrd Chicken to the rescue! And, thankfully, they did because not only were they the only vendor that was operating, but their food was damn good too!
Their menu wasn't very long, but my wife and I ordered The Freebyrd Chicken Sandwich and Chick-in-a-Box. The Freebyrd Chicken Sandwich was described as a buttermilk brined fried chicken, Alabama white BBQ sauce, homemade pickles on a soft roll. The Chick-in-a-Box consisted of buttermilk brined fried chicken strips, coleslaw, Alabama white bbq and Appalachian moonshine bbq sauces.
Food ..... absolutely blew us away. Just as shocked as we were that no vendor was operating at The Bourse, we were just as stunned at how delicious the fried chicken was. The Freebyrd Chicken Sandwich with the Alabama white BBQ sauce was, as Guy Fieri would say, out of bounds! The chicken was perfectly fried and really thick. The sandwich was a mess, but a delicious mess at that.
As for the Chick-in-a-Box, the strips were huge. I was so stuffed after eating as much of the strips as I could, but they were all extremely tasty. The only knock is that we wished that there was more of the Alabama white bbq and Appalachian moonshine bbq sauces for dipping. The fried chicken was excellent, but the sauces put them over the top.
Like I said, thank goodness that Freebyrd Chicken was open to save our dinner plans on Independence Day weekend. With no other vendors open at The Bourse and the rest of the area around Independence Hall pretty silent, we were truly glad that we ate at Freebyrd and, honestly, have no regrets about eating at The Bourse.