A secret fried chicken dish takes the spotlight as famed NOLA restaurant Tujague’s turns 170

There’s an off-the-menu dish at New Orleans’ second-oldest restaurant, an insider’s tip spread by word of garlicky mouth over generations.

But after digging in, there’s no concealing that you had the chicken bonne femme at Tujague’s Restaurant — made with 40 cloves of raw garlic.

It’s a whole fried chicken served with potatoes and finished with the key piece, a heaping portion of persillade, which is a roughly chopped hash of parsley and all that garlic…

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