Knott's Berry Farm - Chicken Dinner

Besides Boysenberries, Knott's is also known for their Chicken Dinner.

The story goes that the folks love Mrs. Knott's Chicken so much that they built rides around it while people wait in line and there came the park.  By the way, when they said Chicken Dinner Restaurant, they weren't kidding.  You will not find pork or beef, only chicken will be served.  Albeit in various format, but make no mistake, it's only cluckers here.

As mentioned before, they have Boysenberry everything.  That also includes Iced Tea.  Boysenberry Iced Tea tasted like super sweet tea.

With our dinner rolls, they give you a plate of Boysenberry, which is like a plate of cranberry equivalent.

Your choice of either shared dinner or individual dinner plates, both are for the price of $21.99, which includes a drink, chicken soup, and salad.  Of course...

...it comes with fried chicken with 2 sides.  I chose the mashed potato, and cabbage with bacon.  Both are good, the mashed potato was exceptionally good.  The fried chicken isn't bad.  Mine were juicy and not dried, but my mom said that hers were dried.  Both pieces they gave you is sizable.

As if all of that isn't enough, or rather, if you could finished all the fore-mentioned food.  I'd hope you saved room for dessert, which is Mrs. Knott's Famous Boysenberry pie.  Amazingly, that was my least favorite during the entire meal.  The pie crust looked and tasted promising, hooray for lard and butter, but the cold Boysenberry filling wasn't doing the trick for me.

I remember when I came here when I was little, the line for the dinner is literally out the door, and people would wait.  The place has now expanded, renovated to be more updated with nice seating in the wait area.  This continues to be a crowd favorite, despite all the new eateries had sprung up in the area, ranging from fast food, to Indian food, to Korean food, to gimmick themed restaurants, this remains the tried and true to tradition and still draw crowds.  That said, reservation is encouraged, we happened to arrive early due to our time zone difference and got lucky where we can walk straight in and got seated thus beat the crowds.

Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner

8039 Beach Blvd

Buena Park, CA 90620

https://www.knotts.com/play/drinks-dining/mrs-knotts-chicken-dinner-restaurant