Charred Fork — Restaurant in Woodridge

This place has quite literally the best service I’ve encountered in a long time!! Today was my third time ordering carry-out from here. 1st time I had the whole chicken that comes with the fries side & salad side and it was phenomenal.

Tbh I don’t eat the salad or fries so I can’t comment on them since they just went to waste so the 2nd time I ordered, I ordered to replace the fries & salad sides with 2 sides of rice to which they said yes they’ll give me extra rice. I was extremely pleased they could do that for me since I’d just waste the other sides. But maybe it was busy and they just forgot because when I got home there seemed to be no more rice than usual with the chicken even though they did omit the fries & salad.

So this third time (today), I ordered the same thing explaining what happened last time and that I’d appreciate the extra rice that replaces the fries & salad to be 2 proper sides of rice. The guy at the front (I wish I took his name) just immediately said “Sure, I’ll take care of you!” Come to find out he misunderstood me and thought I was asking for 4 sides of rice total to account for the 2 I mistakenly didn’t get last time hahah That was super nice of him to do all that no questions asked when all I was making sure was that 2 proper sides of rice replaced the side salad and side fries.

While most places usually have only one of the 3 going for them (service, ambiance, food)— this place quite literally kills it in all 3 categories. Will be bringing friends & family in frequently. I hope they stay...

We stumble upon the name of this new restaurant while looking for halal food in Darien. We went in tonight and wanted to provide our honest review.

We were greeted cheerfully by the lady at the drink counter. The menu was simple, straight forward, & few items in number (which is a good thing when focusing on quality and good customer service). The small menu determines the quality of food. We ordered charred sandwich, rotisserie chicken, & brisket with almost all the drinks off the menu. The food was pleasantly brought to us by the manager (supervisor) & he stopped by later to collect feedback on the food. He was cheerful, friendly, & the other staff members were also friendly.

Food - was good; buns were softer and not too dry with the right amount of sauces & meat. The rotisserie chicken with salad, rice, & fries was also served with two complementary sauces. The burgers came with fries and a good size of drink. They offered complementary cake to collect feedbacks on the future time. It tasted like traumas but had a texture of a cake, a bit too sweet (personally) but overall was good.

The place is spacious enough to host a medium size & they have open floor plan which makes things easier. They can attend to many customers at the same time on the open floor.

Overall the experience was good, this was our first time, but we will absolutely return to enjoy other items on the menu.

It is...

The place is located in a plaza that dipped down from the main traffic. Plenty of parking spaces. Maybe we went at a time when there were not much traffic in the entire plaza but only 3 vehicles including mine were parked in the spacious plaza parking… almost a bit creepy and dingy so don’t bring a date here. The inside of the restaurant is nice with enough tables to seat 40+.

We got 2 brisket sandwiches, with 1 of them being a meal, with fries and a drink. The fries were good - but the portion was hardly worth the upgrade of $5 more. The drink is one size - between a small to medium size drink in comparison to other fast food places. You self serve from the fountain machine.

The breads were soft with sesame topping, but unfortunately ours were a bit burnt. The briskets were covered with onion, cheesy, spicy, and creamy sauce. I think the sauce has a good kick but I didn’t expect that. I was picturing a warm sandwich with fresh vegetables. That was me for being in a hurry to order. However, the warm sauce would be fine too if it was not so salty with the brisket!

The brisket was too dry, not moist and tender - only with the sauce you can swallow them down.

I couldn’t get my family to finish the sandwiches. It got tossed around a bit and my family are not picky eaters. I really want to like this place. It was a pricey...