bb.q Chicken Flushing — Restaurant in New York

This location was recently purchased by a new franchisee, the same people who own the new Astoria location. They remodeled the place, gave it the new logo, and got rid of the older Korean ladies who used to cook there - and replaced them with Latino line cooks in the back and young Korean cashiers at the front.

To be blunt, they are making the chicken wrong. I've eaten at Olive bb.q locations all over the USA as well as in Korea and what these guys at these two Queens locations are selling is not consistent with what the brand makes at all of their other locations. It's also not nearly as good.

It seems that there's a step missing in their process. The flavored chicken varieties are all coming out soggy and sticky and covered in wet sauce as opposed to other locations, where the sauce appears to be baked on after the chicken is fried, which seems to crystallize the sauce on the chicken, and makes a product that is generally crispy but sweet and flavorful.

The chicken at this new version of the Flushing location, as well as at Astoria location that these same franchisees also own, resembles nothing so much as soggy fried chicken covered in ketchup or barbecue sauce.

It's extremely disappointing if you are familiar with what Olive bb.q serves at all the other locations.

I recommend taking the train to the Manhattan K-Town location where they prepare it properly and the chicken is...

Advertising that you fry your chicken in extra virgin olive oil is clever marketing... but unless you're using uncommonly pure, ultra-refined oil, it's BS. There's a reason you can't deep-fry things in extra virgin olive oil: Its smoke point is lower than most other oils, and it would burn before your food was adequately cooked! "Prepared with the finest EVOO" is not the same thing as "We use only 100% EVOO." To conform to their claim, I'd guess that BBQ Chicken's fry oil is only some small percentage extra virgin olive, or else your chicken would taste all screwed up.

...Not that it was even half as good as other Korean fried chicken in the surrounding Murray Hill area. Everything was greasier than fried chicken ever needs to be. The plain fried was the best, but only because of the absence of the goopy, too-sweet, flat sauce that drenches their other varieties - a strange mishmash of flavors like "Istanbul grilled," Cajun, teriyaki, herb-marinated, etc. This spot is takeout-only and has no real seating beyond a small waiting area... so if the overwhelming glaze doesn't destroy all crunchiness, then your trip home surely will. Try it if you like your KFC steamed after frying.

BBQ Chicken is a successful international chain, but its location here is like Pizza Hut in Italy... unfortunately put to shame by the KFC mecca in...

This place is actually called BBQ Chicken now.

So, if you've ever been to the Korean shops such as Bon Chon, Kyo Chon, and such you'll pretty much have the same experience. The place serves chicken wings.

The interior of the shop is quite small and not really an eat in kind of place, which is what separates it from the other Korean shops mentioned above. It's very bright, nice and never dirty since there isn't really much eating going on inside.

Taste. In my honest opinion, the chicken taste very much like the ones you get a at bar, or Buffalo Wild Wings, I got just the BBQ wings and Olive Sweet Spice. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't life altering. If you want something else, they also serve some dishes here like Teri rice cakes, but again, why buy rice cakes at a chicken place. That's like buying Chinese food at in Indian Restaurant.

If you're a fan of chicken wings and feel like the joints you usually go to is much to low quality, maybe the chicken here could change your mind. I don't think so, but I have eaten a lot of chicken.

Note, the cost is pricey. I spent almost $40, just buying 2 boxes of wings, which fed 2 people,...