Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken

What we’ve verified

Each note below comes from a different Hey Memphis guide, written when we checked this place at the source.

• Restaurants in Bartlett, TN: Where Locals Eat on Stage Road and Beyond

  Southern plates and home cookingVerified October 13, 2026

  The spicy Memphis fried chicken, in a Bartlett room by Wolfchase. Plates come with baked beans, slaw, and white bread, and the pies are homemade (chess, pecan, sweet potato). Mon–Thu 11am–9pm, Fri–Sat to 10, Sun to 9. More birds: the best fried chicken in Memphis.

• East Memphis Restaurants: Where to Eat Right Now

  Casual lunch and family dinnersVerified October 13, 2026

  Spicy fried chicken on the Mendenhall row, with fried okra, greens, and chess pie. Mon–Thu and Sun 11am–9pm, Fri–Sat to 10.

• Southaven, MS Restaurants: Where to Eat, Verified

  Goodman Road, Airways, Church Road and old SouthavenVerified October 11, 2026

  The hot-and-spicy Mason, TN recipe, the same one that made Front Street famous, a few minutes from the state line. Sun–Thu 11am–9pm, Fri–Sat 11am–10pm. (The whole fried chicken map: our fried chicken guide.)

• Restaurants in Germantown, TN: Where to Eat Right Now

  Barbecue and fried chickenVerified October 11, 2026

  The spicy Memphis fried chicken, in a Germantown room. Fried okra and fried green tomatoes on the side. Mon–Thu 11am–9pm, Fri–Sat to 10, Sun to 9.

• Downtown Memphis Restaurants

  The Pinch, the Pyramid & the edgesVerified October 11, 2026

  The spicy fried chicken that launched a national chain, still frying at the Front Street original daily from 11am. Walk in; worth whatever the wait is. (The whole story — Mason, 1953 — is on our best fried chicken guide.)

• Best Fried Chicken in Memphis: The Verified List

  The legendsVerified October 11, 2026

  The salt-and-cayenne crust that GQ once called one of ten 'meals worth flying for' — a recipe Napoleon 'Na' Vanderbilt perfected in Mason, TN in 1953, renamed for his son Gus in 1984, and brought to Front Street in 2001. Spicy by default, never frozen, served on white bread. Downtown runs Sun–Thu 11am–9pm, Fri–Sat to 10, and a 2-piece dark plate (thigh and leg, with beans, slaw, and white bread) is the classic first order; Bartlett, Germantown, East Memphis, and Southaven have their own rooms — and the Mason original is a day trip of its own.

• Best Wings in Memphis: The Verified Hot Wing Map

  Sit-down rooms, downtown, and the suburbsVerified October 11, 2026

  The fried chicken legend is also the easiest wing order downtown: the 3-piece wing plate comes with baked beans, slaw, and white bread, in the same spicy crust that made the place famous. Daily 11am–9pm, Fri–Sat to 10. (The full story is on our best fried chicken guide.)

Go to the source

Hours and prices change without notice, so we always send you to Gus's World Famous Fried Chicken’s own page rather than reprinting details that can rot: gusfriedchicken.com.

If you’re headed there anyway

Other places we’ve verified that show up in the same guides.

• Central BBQ2249 Central Ave
• SageDowntown, 94 S Main
• Staks Kitchen4615 Poplar Ave, Suite 102
• Uncle Lou's Fried ChickenWhitehaven, 1725 Winchester Rd
• Coffee CentralSouthaven + Hernando, MS
• Josephine EstelleGermantown, 6695 Poplar Ave