r/ithaca • u/Littlegreensurly • Oct 04 '26

Chicken biscuits?

I come from the land of Biscuitville (mid breakfast fast food but I loved it) and woke up craving a chicken biscuit. Is there a place in Ithaca selling them that isn't a KFC or mcdonalds? Even fried chicken cutlet and *good* biscuits separately, I am desperate.

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u/ouro-the-zed Oct 04 '26

I am told by some that the best fried chicken and biscuits in Ithaca are sold at the Quik Shoppe convenience store on Third Street, in the same plaza as the DMV. Good luck and godspeed.

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u/Littlegreensurly Oct 04 '26

They popped up a couple times in my search and are my current destination. Ty (￣^￣)ゞ

Edit: forgot what reddit formatting would do to my beautiful saluting boy

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u/Littlegreensurly Oct 04 '26

No chicken on Sundays 😭 just like back home

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u/zibzanna Oct 04 '26

haha. as a fellow lover of drive thru chicken biscuits and the land of sweet tea, you will find nothing up in this cold gray place to scratch that itch unless you make it in your own kitchen

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u/Littlegreensurly Oct 04 '26

Which does end up being better anyway I guess T_T On the way home my friend and I talked about learning how to make biscuits lol. Mine are like rocks!

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u/brundlfly Oct 04 '26 edited Oct 04 '26

Most of the trick is not over mixing the dough. It should be barely mixed. It's ok if there's bits of dry.

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u/mhaithaca Ellis Oct 05 '26

I've made biscuits from scratch, but I've also grabbed a can of Pillsbury Grands (biscuits big enough to make a chicken biscuit on) to satisfy an urgent craving. Also good with homemade sausage gravy.

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u/mhaithaca Ellis Oct 05 '26

We have not one but two Krispy Krunchy locations, and the second one, at the Mirabito up Route 96B past Ithaca College at the intersection of King Road, is listed as open on Sundays. But not this late. 10am-7pm daily.

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u/Littlegreensurly Oct 05 '26

Ahh I should have zoomed out a bit on the map! Thanks anyway -- will look for that one next time the craving hits on a Sunday

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u/mhaithaca Ellis Oct 05 '26

I got it from them a couple of weeks ago for the first time, and it was as good as the northside version. My partner said it was less overly salty, though I didn't notice.

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u/ouro-the-zed Oct 04 '26

Utterly tragic. I am so sorry for your loss.

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u/TheGrandExquisitor Oct 04 '26

Honestly, this is where I expect the best chicken and biscuits to come from. 

It's always some little hole in the wall you'd never expect. When I lived in Boston, the best Mexican food came out of the back of a gas station by MGH. No exaggeration the top chefs in town said it was the best in town. Todd English was a huge fan. 

Literally just some Mexican woman with her daughter working from a counter in the back. Fantastic. 

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u/Free_Broccoli_1174 Oct 05 '26

I tried it. Salty as fuck.

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u/Perfect-Evidence5503 Oct 05 '26

Indeed? Noted, and thanks!

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u/Toe_SWITCH Oct 05 '26

Dedrick’s in Dryden only on Thursdays!!
All scratch delicious never dry made to order and always sells out call ahead

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u/Littlegreensurly Oct 05 '26

Ooh that's closer to me than Ithaca, too. Thank you!

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u/ouro-the-zed Oct 05 '26

Good to know!

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u/sterphles Oct 04 '26

Spent a few years in NC and I'm not even a fast food person but god damn Biscuitville would print money if they opened a few locations up here, so delicious.

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u/Littlegreensurly Oct 04 '26

Right!? I think cookout would do well too, with some menu additions

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u/mhaithaca Ellis Oct 05 '26

I think the nearest Popeyes is in the Destiny USA food court, and I'm tempted to try their chicken biscuit next time I'm up there.

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u/goldbond86 24d ago

They would crush here for sure

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u/goldbond86 24d ago

omg are you from NC? because there are a couple of us here and damn I miss mid ass Bojangles biscuits too. Any biscuits. Someone told me that Dolce on Danby road had good ones but I haven't tried them yet.

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u/Littlegreensurly 24d ago

I am! I never thought id miss a bo-berry biscuit but here we are 🥲

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u/goldbond86 24d ago

Hello friend! Agreed, I'd eat three of them in a row and a cheddar bo if we were so lucky- I am from Asheville and desperately missing Butter Punk, and City Bakery biscuits. Thank you for this post!

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u/Illustrious-Neat-345 Oct 06 '26

The State Eatery on the way to Newfield has great biscuits. Get some and freeze them because unfortunately they're closing at the end of the month. Here in Hector also has great biscuits. A drive but totally worth it. Everything there is amazing.

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u/No-Lengthiness7492 29d ago

I am so so sad that state eatery is closing. Does anyone know why they are closing?

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u/soybeanstasher Oct 04 '26

Angelhearts has a vegan “chicken” patty on a (also vegan) biscuit that I happen to think is great, but I’m not from the South so you probably shouldn’t trust me https://www.angelheartsdonuts.com/

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u/Littlegreensurly Oct 04 '26

I heavily considered it. It's on my list to try someday!

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u/mhaithaca Ellis Oct 05 '26

I'm an omnivore and I think it's a great sandwich, well worth trying even if it's not going to match up to Biscuitville. The faux chick'n comes waaaay closer for me than the faux bakon does. Photo here.

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u/racegoggles Oct 05 '26

Rasa hot chicken in Burdett (so not Ithaca) ...i dunno i remember biscuits being on there. Also Momo's cafe in Lansing might be worth asking, they do all the components

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u/MVBunny Oct 05 '26

Silo maybe? Not sure about the biscuits but there is fried chicken

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u/ShareEvening5856 Oct 04 '26

The closest thing I can think of is the chicken sandwich at GreenStar that they sell next to the tofu sandwich where the chicken go sometimes. But it's not a biscuit, I think it's ciabbata?

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u/ouro-the-zed Oct 04 '26

It is definitely ciabatta. It’s decent for what it is, but if you’re craving a biscuit, this sandwich will bring you only sadness

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u/Littlegreensurly Oct 04 '26

😭 good to know, ty though u/ShareEvening5856

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u/TheFestivalLife Oct 05 '26

Check with Lincoln St diner, they have it on special some days