Do you want the best fried chicken you've ever had accompanied with the best sides, drink a nice cold beer while you watch airplanes land and to be able to sit outside on a sunny summer day? Well, we did so we headed over to Sisters and Brothers yesterday, a bar at the north end of Boeing Field.
It also just happens to be close to where the Blue Angels are parked.
The Blue Angels have been in town all week practicing for their air show today and tomorrow and we've had fun watching them practice from the view at our house
and also at Lake Washington where we spent the day yesterday.
We joined some of my family at the lake to watch the Blue Angels and the unlimited hydroplanes time trials for the big race on Sunday.
It's free to watch the time trials but there is a $40 entrance fee on Saturday and Sunday so we choose the cheaper version.
It's still pretty thrilling to watch them race around the course and witness all the hoopla surrounding these racing boats.
The Miss Albert Lee Appliance was damaged last weekend at the Columbia Cup in Tri-Cities, Washington and barely made it back to qualify yesterday.
We saw it drive by as it made it's way to the pits to race.
There are lots of booths, food, drinks and displays to look at the hydro races. We saw a little one that a child can drive to begin their career as a hydroplane driver.
Here are some old-time models.
My nephew's daughter enjoyed the face painting.
Sitting on the shore watching the activity all day left us contemplating what we felt like doing for dinner.
We decided to drive pass Boeing field on our way home to take a peek at the parked Blue Angels and then I remembered Sisters and Brothers fried chicken. Bruce had never been there so I knew he had to try it. I went there with Nick last year before a Mariner game so I knew how good it was. It's not really fried chicken, though. It's more than that. It's Nashville chicken. I'd never heard of it until Sisters and Brothers opened last year. They make it by brining the chicken first for two days in a mixture of hot sauce and buttermilk. Then they rub a special spice-and-lard rub on it that consists of 25 spices (a major spice is cayenne), dip it in a batter and then deep-fry in lard in a cast-iron Dutch oven, then brush it with more spices and more lard. (There is a lot of lard involved.)
It's the crispest chicken you've ever tasted and so moist inside. With each bite, the crust crackles and juice drips from the meat inside.
I admit that I always order the "naked" version, or the least spiciness. There are four levels you can order: naked, mild, hot or insane. Nick had ordered the mild and it was really, really hot! I ended up scaring Bruce about how hot it was so we split a half "naked" chicken and our server brought out little container of sauce so Bruce could at least taste the hot sauce.
It's like a spicy-sweet sauce that is definitely on the spicy-hot side. The owner, Jake Manny, moved here from Nashville where he had a bar but being from Seattle originally, we wanted to be closer to family (thus the name Sisters and Brothers.) He decided to open a bar here, too, and decided to serve Nashville chicken which he had acquired a taste for. Turns out, his "bar" is now actually known for it's chicken and when he first opened, there were lines down the street with people waiting 2 hours to get a taste of his chicken. He thought he'd go through maybe 3 chickens per night but turns out it was more like 150 chickens per night. It took about 6 weeks for Sisters and Brothers to settle into itself. Manny hired servers and brought in more cold storage for the chicken. Seattle has now recast Manny's bar as a chicken restaurant. His sides are equally as good as his chicken. I love the coleslaw (we started eating it before I took a photo...)
and the smoked gouda mac and cheese.
The sides are not your typical salty, gooey sides. The mac and cheese isn't salty at all but extremely creamy. The sides are calibrated as part of the cooling and soothing experience when eating the chicken. Even the bread-and-butter pickles are so fresh and clean tasting - homemade, of course. And I like how the chicken is served on bread, another aid in cooling your mouth if need be.
As if we hadn't gotten enough of airplanes, we enjoyed our Nashville chicken while watching planes land at Boeing Field right across the street.
It was perfect way to end our day of hydroplane racing, Blue Angels and now some Nashville Hot Chicken.
I admit that I always order the "naked" version, or the least spiciness. There are four levels you can order: naked, mild, hot or insane. Nick had ordered the mild and it was really, really hot! I ended up scaring Bruce about how hot it was so we split a half "naked" chicken and our server brought out little container of sauce so Bruce could at least taste the hot sauce.
It's like a spicy-sweet sauce that is definitely on the spicy-hot side. The owner, Jake Manny, moved here from Nashville where he had a bar but being from Seattle originally, we wanted to be closer to family (thus the name Sisters and Brothers.) He decided to open a bar here, too, and decided to serve Nashville chicken which he had acquired a taste for. Turns out, his "bar" is now actually known for it's chicken and when he first opened, there were lines down the street with people waiting 2 hours to get a taste of his chicken. He thought he'd go through maybe 3 chickens per night but turns out it was more like 150 chickens per night. It took about 6 weeks for Sisters and Brothers to settle into itself. Manny hired servers and brought in more cold storage for the chicken. Seattle has now recast Manny's bar as a chicken restaurant. His sides are equally as good as his chicken. I love the coleslaw (we started eating it before I took a photo...)
and the smoked gouda mac and cheese.
The sides are not your typical salty, gooey sides. The mac and cheese isn't salty at all but extremely creamy. The sides are calibrated as part of the cooling and soothing experience when eating the chicken. Even the bread-and-butter pickles are so fresh and clean tasting - homemade, of course. And I like how the chicken is served on bread, another aid in cooling your mouth if need be.
As if we hadn't gotten enough of airplanes, we enjoyed our Nashville chicken while watching planes land at Boeing Field right across the street.
It was perfect way to end our day of hydroplane racing, Blue Angels and now some Nashville Hot Chicken.
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