What to Order at Double Chicken Please

Double Chicken Please is the Lower East Side cocktail bar from GN Chan and Faye Chen that topped North America's 50 Best Bars in 2023, and ordering well means knowing its two rooms play by different rules.

What should you order at Double Chicken Please?

In The Coop, order the Cold Pizza. In the front room, pick a numbered taptail and the hot honey chicken sandwich. The World's 50 Best organization has ranked the bar for years running, and the signatures below anchor its reputation.

1. Cold Pizza. The Coop's most famous culinary cocktail: tequila with Parmigiano Reggiano, burnt toast, tomato, basil honey, and egg white, served up. It tastes like its name in the best possible way.

2. Hot honey chicken sandwich. The food order. The Infatuation calls it "sweet, spicy, and herbaceous" and recommends it without reservation.

3. The numbered taptails. The front room, Free Range, pours kegged seasonal cocktails numbered for easy ordering. The Infatuation warns they "don't taste very strong at first, but they'll definitely sneak up on you."

4. Chicken liver mousse. "Smooth and subtly sweet" per The Infatuation, with grilled baguette, for the table.

What should you skip at Double Chicken Please?

The salted duck egg yolk and shrimp sandwich splits the room. The Infatuation finds it "chalky" with a polarizing crustacean intensity, so order it only if that description excites rather than warns you.

How does ordering actually work at Double Chicken Please?

Two rooms, two menus. Free Range up front runs casual: tap cocktails by number, sandwiches, walk-in energy. The Coop in back operates like a separate bar with pricier, more ambitious culinary cocktails and its own menu, and the front room's food becomes available back there after 10pm. Start in front, finish in The Coop if you can get in.

How do you get into Double Chicken Please?

Reviewers report the house holds most seats for walk-ins with a smaller share of tables bookable online, that the bookable slots skew to later evening times, and that The Coop's reservation book fills solid. The practical plays: arrive before opening for the walk-in line, go on a weeknight, or watch for the online slots the moment they appear. For the booking intel DinnerElite tracks on The Coop, and alerts across hundreds of NYC restaurants and bars that book through Resy and OpenTable, start from DinnerElite's Double Chicken Please page.

Frequently asked questions

What is The Coop at Double Chicken Please?

The back room: a dark lounge focused on culinary cocktails like the Cold Pizza, treated as a separate bar from the walk-in front room, with its own menu and its own hard-to-get reservations.

Why is Double Chicken Please famous?

The rankings: it debuted at No. 6 on The World's 50 Best Bars in 2022 and took the No. 1 spot on North America's 50 Best Bars in 2023, and it has stayed on the world list since.

Does Double Chicken Please serve food?

Yes, and the sandwiches are destinations in their own right, led by the hot honey chicken. The front room's food menu reaches The Coop after 10pm.