{"id":2213,"date":"2015-01-31T16:43:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T22:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=2213"},"modified":"2015-01-31T16:44:45","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T22:44:45","slug":"chick-fil-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/?p=2213","title":{"rendered":"Chick-Fil-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2227\" style=\"margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 10px; margin-right: px;\" title=\"DSC01556\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC01556-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC01556-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/DSC01556-1024x791.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>My goodness, the crazy popularity of Madison&#8217;s first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chick-fil-a.com\/westtowne\" target=\"_blank\">Chick-Fil-A<\/a> reminds me of when Sonic first opened and cars would be backed up on University Avenue. At one point in December, I counted at least 14 cars in a row in the drive-thru at Chick-Fil-A, plus others in the adjacent lot waiting for their order.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had Chick-Fil-A before in Florida, but I thought I&#8217;d go over some of the items for those who aren&#8217;t familiar with the menu.<\/p>\n<p>Breakfast is served until 10:30 a.m. every day and includes items such as the sausage, egg and cheese biscuit and the chicken breakfast burrito. While I like the biscuits, I was intrigued by the chicken, egg and cheese on sunflower multigrain bagel ($3.55). There&#8217;s nothing like fried chicken to get your day started. The bagel was good but too crumbly; I may as well have just eaten a biscuit.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the menu is served all day, even during breakfast. \u00a0If you&#8217;ve never eaten here, you should probably start with the classic chicken sandwich. For me, I wanted to try the Spicy Chicken Deluxe Sandwich ($4.05), which comes with pepperjack cheese, lettuce and tomatoes. I liked this a lot, and despite it not being that spicy, the sandwich was still spicier than Wendy&#8217;s version.<\/p>\n<p>I also enjoyed the Grilled Chicken Club Sandwich ($5.95), topped with bacon and Colby-Jack cheese. The chicken was moist and well-seasoned. I was actually surprised Chick-Fil-A could do grilled chicken as well as it does fried chicken.<\/p>\n<p>On that thought, let&#8217;s talk about the chicken nuggets. My 12-piece order ($4.69) was a mixed batch of mega-dry pieces and tender pieces. Plus, they didn&#8217;t carry the flavor of the fried chicken, and for those reasons, I wouldn&#8217;t order the nuggets again. Note: you also may order the nuggets in grilled form.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the menu is comprised of salads, wraps, desserts and even soups.<\/p>\n<p>Chick-Fil-A is open Monday-Saturday. It has a big indoor playground and free wifi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/214\/1830257\/restaurant\/West-Side\/Chick-Fil-A-Madison\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; width: 130px; height: 36px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/1830257\/minilink.gif\" alt=\"Chick-Fil-A on Urbanspoon\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My goodness, the crazy popularity of Madison&#8217;s first Chick-Fil-A reminds me of when Sonic first opened and cars would be backed up on University Avenue. At one point in December, I counted at least 14 cars in a row in the drive-thru at Chick-Fil-A, plus others in the adjacent lot waiting for their order. I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[19,131],"class_list":["post-2213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-restaurant-reviews","tag-far-west","tag-fast-food"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2213"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2230,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2213\/revisions\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatdrinkmadison.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}