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Best of the Best
Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles
Finalist: Fried Chicken
Finalist
1514 N Gower St., Los Angeles, CA 90028 323-466-7453
Roscoe's House of Chicken 'N Waffles is an L.A. soul food chain, founded by Herb Hudson in 1975. The L.A. Times has referred to Roscoe's as “such an L.A. institution that people don't even question the strange combo anymore."