Review Kfc - San Diego

I went to KFC at Clairemont Town Square. I bought a 12 piece bucket of chicken & a large side of green beans. My friend & I were having a picnic on a sunny Sunday at Mission Bay Park. The KFC is small, but efficient, friendly, & helpful. There are tables, a restroom, parking, & the aroma of delicious chicken cooking fills the room. The picnic was amazing: delicious "original" chicken, green beans, & deviled-egg potato salad on a quiet beach setting with a special friend & the beauty of the bay and approaching sunset all around us. It was glorious!!

Our cashier was amazing and very patient with us--i wish I had gotten his name. Quality of food sucked. We spent $80 and the tenders we luke warm at best. We live 5min away so it wasn't the drive home. We also bought a 24 piece all dark meal --and we got lots of white meat--not a bonus--and unwanted.

Very polite and helpful cashier person. Food was good, but mash potatoes were downsized to practically nothing. Of course the price of side orders was up-sized😊 The table tops were all dirty and unwashed on the bad side. The booth to sit in had torn up cushions that looked like somebody slashed them. The prices of side orders were not listed on the menu board. As a matter of fact, no side orders like coleslaw, mashed potatoes, corn, etc. were even shown on the main menu board. I had to ask the cashier if they still had them anymore.

KFC was known in my childhood as "Kentucky Fried Chicken," a fast food joint that was "finger lickin' good" due to Colonel Harland Sanders' no-longer-secret fried chicken batter recipe and its famed 11 herbs and spices. A bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken on the dining table used to be a genuine treat when I was a young boy, long before a consortium of slick, carpet-bagging MBAs from up north renamed it, re-branded it, and figured out how to grow and raise genetically-mutated poultry on metal rods without feet, beaks, spines, or nervous systems, while pumping liquid hormones, pesticides, and carcinogens directly into their veins. This was also before KFCs like this location in Clairemont began sharing kitchens with Taco Bell, a chain restaurant known for purveying powerful, exotic laxatives. KFC's most redeeming quality is that the food is both filling and cheap, and the cheapest way to eat pressure-fried chicken and a biscuit at KFC at present seems to be their "Fill Up Box" value meals. For $5.49, the Fill Up Box includes your chicken selection of choice, an 8oz container of mashed potatoes and gravy, a biscuit, a medium soft drink, and a chocolate chip cookie. For purposes of this review, I ordered both the 2 Piece (Leg and Thigh) Original Recipe and the 1 Piece (Breast) Extra Crispy Recipe. My Original Recipe pieces were coated in a soft and finely textured batter. Very well-seasoned, with lots of salt, but my goodness it is just so very greasy, resulting in a soggy coating that one does not associate with fried chicken. The taste was not horrible, and the chicken was anything but dry, with the melted fat from the dark meat making the oily chicken even greasier. If I had any issues with the flavor it was that the chicken almost tastes over-salted and my tastebuds felt brutally assaulted by heaps of MSG and oil. Extra Crispy is even saltier and, yes, it is much crispier. The late Colonel Sanders despised the Extra Crispy recipe, once publicly denouncing it as "a damn fried doughball stuck on some chicken." Most people would concur with the Colonel that the batter is very thick, to the point where you could feasibly bite into a piece of Extra Crispy fried chicken without your teeth hitting any meat. I much prefer KFC's Original Recipe, despite the sogginess of the coating and all of the grease. Of course, you can't have KFC's chicken without a signature cup of their instant-cook mashed potatoes covered with a lake of KFC's MSG-spiked gravy. Again, Colonel Sanders publicly said it best himself, "my God, that gravy is horrible," before suing KFC's parent company in the 70s for continuing to misuse his likeness to promote awful food products that he didn't actually develop. The problem with KFC's gravy is that it has no essence of meat or vegetables in it and tastes only of starch, salt, and MSG. This brings me to the biscuit, which I don't think is awful. KFC's biscuit is not very flaky -- it achieves a lighter and more pillowy feel than most biscuits. Also, unlike other biscuits, it has an unusual lack of crispness on its sides, most likely because they're baked touching each other. Fluffiness is KFC's biscuit's signature, as is the very high amount of salt. The less I write about the bizarre and inexplicable "freshly baked" Chocolate Chip Cookie in my "Fill Up Box" the better. I'll conclude this by stating that, despite the icky food, KFC plays an important role in our world -- as Milton once wrote, there is no heaven without hell. This represents the alternative to responsible sourcing and disciplined cooking techniques.

If you order online you can only pick up by car. They used to bring our online orders to the door when they saw us. Today 2 ladies fully ignored us as we knocked for 20 min patiently waiting. They saw us and they didn’t care. It’s a little inhumane and we felt helpless unable to pick up our food. Maybe put a sign on a door on how to pick up an online order. Maybe specify online that it’s drive through only. Maybe open the door to let us know. We ended up waiting in long car line like idiots. Wings got cold. Great experience 10/10 recommend.

This place just can't get it right. I've had the chicken sandwich here 5 times now. 4 times out of 5 it has been horrible today was no exception it was cold hard and very old. On top of that the bun tasted very very stale. Also I asked for extra pickles and saw through the pass through that someone had actually physically removed pickles from my sandwich and threw them back into the bin. The clerk who was helping me actually went to another station and added my pickles back . Great concept, Sub par food. So sad. I will definitely keep driving out of my way for Popeyes chicken sandwich!!

I drive thru this location often as I shop in the area...Every time I order a Dr. Pepper though,I'm disappointed! There is never enough syrup and too much carbonation.I always think it will have been fixed from the last time,but I think it's just the way they serve it at all times

First time I've ever wrote a review. This place was disgusting. food was cold and the chicken sandwich was stale. Do yourself a favor and don't eat here.