Honey's Kettle Fried Chicken

For the last four decades, chef-owner Vincent Williams has perfected the art of fried chicken at Honey’s Kettle to the point he’s designed customized fryers and cooking utensils to replicate colonial era kettle-style cooking techniques. As a Culver City native, I grew up eating here. Since first visiting Honey’s Kettle for Time Out back in 2023, overall food quality has sadly dropped off (and prices have risen), but you can still find a pretty tasty, conveniently located Southern-style fried chicken here, made with organic chicken and other top-shelf ingredients. Crispy, crackly and fried in peanut oil, the shaggy golden crust locks in all the flavor from Honey’s Kettle top-secret spice blend, which each batch of chicken marinates in for 24 hours. Paired with warm, melt-in-your-mouth biscuits and packets of amber-hued honey, the fried chicken here has kept Culver City happy since Honey’s Kettle first relocated from Compton to its current address in 2005.