Now, descend to Yardbird—and I mean descend, because the stairs are steep enough to qualify as a low-grade roller coaster. This is the chicken and whiskey basement of your dreams. Yardbird is a smokehouse that uses only Irish and free-range birds, then treats them so badly (in a delicious way) they’d ask for a lawyer if they could talk.
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They serve fried chicken that’s so crunchy and spicy it could start a diplomatic incident with your taste buds. The “Nashville Hot” option comes with a warning: “May cause temporary loss of words, dignity, and eyebrow hair.” I tried it, and I’m pretty sure I saw a vision of Colonel Sanders apologizing to me from the afterlife.
Pair that chicken with a whiskey from their wall of 100+ bottles. Pro tip: if you say “surprise me” to the bartender, they will hand you a dram from a distillery that closed in 1921. The whiskey tastes like a haunted fireplace, but in the best way possible.