Have fun Nationwide Fried Hen Day with Chef Nicola Blaque’s $10 Plate Particular on July 6, 2025
Have fun Fried Hen Day at The Jerk Shack and Freight Fried Hen
WHAT:
In celebration of Nationwide Fried Hen Day on Sunday, July 6, 2025, James Beard nominated chef Nicola Blaque invitations the group to take pleasure in her nationally-recognized recipes at The Jerk Shack and Freight Fried Hen. Every restaurant is providing a limited-time fried rooster plate particular: two items of fried rooster with any facet for simply $10.
Visitors can benefit from the particular at The Jerk Shack solely on Sunday, July 6, together with its island-style fried rooster paired with daring Caribbean sides like pineapple slaw and masala fries. In the meantime, Freight Fried Hen will provide its bone-in and boneless fried rooster plate all through the vacation weekend, from Friday, July 4 to Sunday, July 6, highlighting basic Southern flavors with sides akin to mac ’n cheese, seasoned fries and fried corn. Plates can be found for buy throughout common enterprise hours at every restaurant.
WHEN:
The Jerk Shack
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, 2025
Freight Fried Hen
10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, July 4 and Saturday, July 5, 2025
10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 6, 2025
WHERE:
The Jerk Shack
10234 TX-151, Suite 103, San Antonio, TX 78251
Freight Fried Hen
312 Pearl Pkwy Constructing 6, San Antonio, TX 78215X
ABOUT CHEF NICOLA BLAQUE
Lattoia Nicola Massey, identified professionally as Chef Nicola Blaque, is a restaurateur and chef based mostly in San Antonio, Texas. Chef Blaque is the manager chef and proprietor of the Jerk Shack, a Jamaican-inspired restaurant in San Antonio. The restaurant that gives fare like jerk rooster, braised oxtail, and extra rapidly grew to become a staple after opening in 2018. In 2024, The Jerk Shack was awarded a Bib Gourmand designation from the celebrated Michelin Information. In no matter she does, Chef Blaque is obsessed with making meals that tells a narrative. In early 2024, she opened Freight Fried Hen on the fashionable Pearl district in San Antonio – a restaurant that pays homage to previously enslaved girls that offered fried rooster as a technique to assist themselves in post-Civil Struggle Virginia.
Along with operating profitable ideas which were acknowledged by GQ, Eater and extra, Chef Blaque is an Military Veteran, a graduate of The Culinary Institute of America in San Antonio, a personal chef for members of the San Antonio Spurs, a two-time CultureMap San Antonio Chef of the Yr, a James Beard Award nominee, a spouse, mother and extra. She additionally serves on the board of Go to San Antonio in a culinary advisory position. Having been born and raised in Jamaica till she was 5 years outdated, Chef Blaque is obsessed with introducing individuals to the flavors of the Caribbean. Although she’ll be the primary to inform you that the dishes she’s serving up aren’t at all times conventional Jamaican dishes, she’s obsessed with infusing these flavors into delicacies her patrons know and love.
ABOUT THE JERK SHACK
The Jerk Shack is an idea by Chef Nicola Blaque and her husband Cornelius Massey. After serving ten years within the Military, Blaque started working as a personal chef to discover her ardour for cooking. She relocated to San Antonio from Hawaii to pursue a level on the Culinary Institute of America the place she graduated in 2016. Blaque returned to her Jamaican roots and started specializing in Caribbean delicacies, working to carry the distinctive flavors to South Texas. In 2018, the staff launched The Jerk Shack, a restaurant impressed by the flavors of Jamaica and the Caribbean. The Jerk Shack has obtained nationwide reward together with being featured by Eater as one of many 2019 High 16 New Eating places in America in addition to being included in GQ’s 2020 Finest New Eating places in America. In 2024, The Jerk Shack was awarded a Bib Gourmand designation from the celebrated Michelin Information.
ABOUT FREIGHT FRIED CHICKEN
Freight Fried Hen is Chef Nicola Blaque’s homage to the wealthy culinary historical past and traditions shared amongst Black People. Freight Fried Hen attracts its inspiration from black girls in put up Civil Struggle America that offered fried rooster to rail passengers touring via Gordonsville, VA. The ladies grew to become referred to as Waiter Carriers and their rooster recipes would entice vacationers who would exit of their means simply to attempt the well-known rooster. The sale of fried rooster allowed previously enslaved girls to assist their households and create racial progress in a time fraught with dissension. Freight Fried Hen serves crispy fried rooster, each bone in and tenders, in addition to fried rooster sandwiches, with delectable sides like mac n cheese, loaded potato salad, slaw and seasoned fries.
