--- description: ChocoChicken -- an eatery that specializes in, yes, chocolate-flavored fried chicken -- has finally opened in Los Angeles, California. title: Say Hello to the Chocolate Fried Chicken of Your Dreams image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # You Can Now Eat The Chocolate Fried Chicken of Your Dreams by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 16, 2014 8:07 PM CUT by [Samantha Grossman](/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jun 16, 2014 8:07 PM CUT After much anticipation, ChocoChicken — an eatery that specializes in, yes, chocolate-flavored fried chicken — has finally [opened](http://www.lamag.com/lafood/digestblog/2014/05/23/first-impressions-chocochickens-chocolate-fried-chicken "undefined") in Los Angeles. It’s the brainchild of Adam Fleischman, best known as the founder of Umami Burger. Behold the restaurant’s signature dish: > [](https://twitter.com/KristieHang/status/476903403608502272) The batter contains 62% bittersweet chocolate from a local Beverly Hills chocolate producer, the Los Angeles _Times_ [explains](http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-first-look-chocochicken-chocolate-fried-chicken-20140523-story.html "undefined"). That chocolate is also used in or on almost everything on the menu, including ketchup, duck fat fries and mashed potatoes. “Chocolate isn’t there to make sweetness, it’s there to make more of a savory experience,” Fleischman tells the LA _Times_. “It just adds a lot more complexity because a lot of fried chicken is bland because they don’t do much to the chicken, the flavor is all in the coating.” So, is it actually any good? Unfortunately we haven’t had the opportunity to fly to California to try it, but _Los Angeles_ magazine offers the following [assessment](http://www.lamag.com/lafood/digestblog/2014/05/23/first-impressions-chocochickens-chocolate-fried-chicken "undefined"): --- > “” --- Um, yeah. We’d eat that. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2885674/chocolate-fried-chicken/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2885674/chocolate-fried-chicken/"},"headline":"You Can Now Eat The Chocolate Fried Chicken of Your Dreams","datePublished":"2014-06-16T20:07:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:49.602Z","description":"Um, yeah. We’d eat that.","url":"https://time.com/2885674/chocolate-fried-chicken/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","Food","chocolate","los angeles","Chicken"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2885674/chocolate-fried-chicken/","name":"You Can Now Eat The Chocolate Fried Chicken of Your Dreams"}}]}] ```