Chimmelier

Inside a cramped West 8th Street strip mall, this new-school Korean fried chicken joint serves one of the best fried chicken sandwiches in town. While you can take or leave the regular chicken (and honestly, given the number of amazing Korean fried chicken joints, we’d leave it), Chimmelier offers a surprisingly delicious, Korean-inflected take on the humble fried chicken sandwich. A crispy chicken breast gets topped with a spicy pickled red cabbage slaw, dashi mayo, perilla leaf and lacto-fermented pickles. It’s massive and crunchy, and all those pickled goods give each bite a refreshing edge. There’s more than fried chicken, too, with sides such as chapsal cheese balls, cauliflower nuggets, and kimchi fried rice packed into a Shin Ramyun cup. You can also catch Chimmelier every Sunday at Smorgasburg in the Arts District.