Chronicle readers say: Threadgill's

But they don't serve baked chicken at Threads. Does your outfit, km?

Nope, don't have the correct equipment to do it properly.

How about a recipe for Italian baked chicken in food? Are you up to this?

I'll see how many I can find.

Cool deal.

Best Chicken Fried Steak 2000 Chronicle Poll. Threadgill�s. I would have picked Threadgills without seeing the poll. And I�m sure it has nothing to do with the fact that Austin Chronicles are piled to the ceiling in this place. They have great chicken fried chicken, well, near great! They have some of the best cooked veggies in town to go along with it. This is the onetime hangout of Janis Joplin and folksinging great Kenneth Threadgill (who I met because he lived next door to an old girlfriend of mine who was a nurse, that�s how I know about these things. He lived on a street with a park out his front door). Hoover�s Cooking got second place. I�m embarassed to have never eaten at Hoover�s because I walk by there a lot and I�ve thought about it. Hoover�s has the presumed best chef in town and is located in the onetime cyber cafe building on Manor Road. Maybe I have a subconscious resentment of the cyber cafe�s closing. It was such a bold, risky venture. Then there�s Hut�s and the Lone Star Cafe. I am more burned out on the Lone Star Cafe than any other Austin restaurant. It�s just too mainstream for me and you probably won�t ever see me there again. I love Hut�s for it�s veggie burgers but again, I�m not a meat eater, so my opinions on these places are valueless. But that doesn�t stop me. What�s next? Hmm. Best Chile Pepper dish. I�ll have to make a new topic This topic should have read "Best Chicken Fried Steak and Chicken Fried Chicken".

Qualifier, I only eat chicken fried chicken on occasion, I've never had chicken fried steak, which is why I'm so eminently qualified to discuss this.