Beverly's

[papaOU]

Why, that's a cigar, PapaOU. Beverly Osborne was an avid cigar smoker.

Thanks! I did not know that

[Roadhawg]

Had breakfast there this morning.... food was good, coffee was hot, waitress was friendly but sitting at the counter and seeing the cooks handle the food without those little plastic gloves was a bit of a turnoff.

[Pete]

I've never liked to watch food being prepared and handled at a restaurant.

I trust the health department to make sure they are following regulations but beyond that I don't want to see a bunch of people touching the food I am about to eat. I know it happens, I just find watching it unappetizing no matter how it's done.

[onthestrip]

Two things I'd rather not know, how my food is prepared and how my tax dollars are spent.

[Tydude]

i had a really bad experience at beverly's and never been there again

[Debzkidz]

Used to go the the old location all the time. It was actually one of the first places we ate when we were in the process of moving here. When they tore it and moved to the current location we went one time. It just lost all the cool, old, dirty charm. Never went back.

[Dustin]

Their crispy chicken salad is the best thing on the menu.

[Tydude]

i went there with my family the service was horrible and i want to get some chicken tenders and my dad wanted a soup and then a sandwich and he say he wants his soup first and then we were waiting and waiting and then the waitress came back and my dad told her he wants his soup so he got him to the soup and then 2 minutes later the food came out and it was cold and the waitress didn't care for us and we yelled at her when we were at the cash register and never been back there again it was waist of our money.

[Roadhawg]

I've been there a few times and I've always had decent food and good service so no complaints there, just the seeing the cooks handle the food with their bare hands is what I didn't like.

[MikeLucky]

Everytime I've been there it's been great.... both food and service. But, I've only been there at about 2-3am on Saturday nights... lol

[Nowhere Man]

I used to love the old location but I won't go to the new one. I've been there several times and it's been average at best every time and I was also upset when the last original one closed. I ate there all the time for years and the food and service was always excellent.

[pickles]

Been there once. Never wanted to go back.

Same here.

[Jim Kyle]

And here also.

[Tydude]

i had a bad time there once me and my family was there and one of my family members wanted his soup first and then his meal the waitress says yes she will be bring it out we waited we waited and then finally she came back and we ask her can we get the soup please she say she is on it finally she bring is to us and the literally 5 seconds later our meal is out she didn't listen to us and my chicken was cold and gross and finally we just walk out of the restaurant and we yelled at her at the cash register and didn't give her a tip

[rcjunkie]

i had a bad time there once me and my family was there and one of my family members wanted his soup first and then his meal the waitress says yes she will be bring it out we waited we waited and then finally she came back and we ask her can we get the soup please she say she is on it finally she bring is to us and the literally 5 seconds later our meal is out she didn't listen to us and my chicken was cold and gross and finally we just walk out of the restaurant and we yelled at her at the cash register and didn't give her a tip

So you counter bad service and food, with rude behavior.

[Prunepicker]

Beverly's was a classy place when I was growing up. Bev and Ruby were
super people.

[RadicalModerate]

Was the Beverly's over on NW 23rd or the location on the NW Expressway near Penn the "Original"?
(I remember having the Chicken in the Rough once and it was very, very good).

[Jim Kyle]

Neither of them was the original. I believe that the downtown location, levelled during Urban Renewal days, was the original one, but the one near the Capitol building on Lincoln just north of 23rd, was the best known. Both the NW 23 and Expressway locations were relative latecomers to the chain.

Doug has a quite good history of the operation on his blog.

[RadicalModerate]

I didn't move here until '73 or '74 so both of those locations were probably long gone by then. As a child visiting in the '50s and '60s I may have seen the one on Lincoln, but back then the chicken place of choice was Shipman's (i think down there on Robinson? one of those N/S streets south of downtown). Didn't eat at Beverly's a lot--it just seemed too far out of the way from where I was residing--but every time I did, it was good. Just lucky I guess.

[Tydude]

So you counter bad service and food, with rude behavior.

yes she didn't care at all and the food was horrible

[Prunepicker]

Was the Beverly's over on NW 23rd or the location on the NW
Expressway near Penn the "Original"? (I remember having the
Chicken in the Rough once and it was very, very good).

The first one was on Grand Avenue (now Sheridan) where the Lunch
Box has been for years. Just east of the Union Station.

Technically the first Chicken in the Rough was sold on the side of
a road. The goes they were leaving Oklahoma for California. Ruby
made chicken and while they were driving and eating she said, "this
is eating chicken in the rough." That gave Beverly an idea and
they never left Oklahoma.

[RadicalModerate]

I guess The Rooster Holding the Golf Club came later . . . =)

Thanks for the info, Mr. P.
And I'm not making fun of that old restaurant logo.
It was one of the coolest ever.
(and i pay attention to that sort of stuff! =)

[Roadhawg]

Just what is Chicken in the Rough?

[RadicalModerate]

I seem to recall that it was an entire half-chicken fried-up in one piece.
With fries on the side.

(Of course, the head and neck were removed on account of that would have been just a little TOO rough.)

Tearing into the bird with your fingers was part of the fun.
Plus you got white meat and dark meat, thus broadening your culinary perspective on stuff.

[BlackmoreRulz]

And then the cool little bowls of water with a lemon slice to dip your fingers in...