Miller’s Chicken

Love, love, love Millers! The hearts, Mac salad and gem crème soda is my favorite! Always good food, never disappointed! It is a must for anyone visiting Athens.

Desserts here always tempt me. I ordered a dozen hot wings to go, but when I got home they were fried chicken wings. I would recommend checking your orders for pickup.

Miller’s Chicken always gives a personal and warm service. There is a wide variety of homemade cold food. One of my favorite is the macaroni pasta salad. However, the star item on the menu — the fried chicken, is a little too salty for my liking. The fried gizzards is very addictive though.

Miller’s is great! The staff are personable and the food is excellent! Their breading is delicious and everything tastes fresh! Oh, and my favorite is their macaroni salad in the deli case! I definitely get cravings for Miller’s!

No frills just great food. You order at the counter and they bring your food to your table. Nothing fancy, just about 10 tables/​booths in one room. The food is excellent as I’ve had about everything on their menu. I recommend the livers, macaroni salad, and super chicken sandwiches above all but everything else is great too. They’re also great for picking up take out for families. Highly recommend.

Was a student who lived near here 41 years ago, but never knew it existed until the Internet!
Very juicy meat and great crust. Crust lacks a decided taste, but the texture and the meat give it an edge to the similarly prepared Barberton chicken restaurants like Hopocan Gardens. No atmosphere to speak of, even for a fried chicken joint. So come for lunch.
Worthwhile for chicken aficionados.

Athens native here. Miller’s is overrated.
Chicken prices are fine for what you get, but I make better chicken in frying pan.
The slaw is downright AWFUL. Not made on premises and the #2 ingredient is HFCS. Eeewwww. That not real sugar too-​sweet taste. Two glasses of water to wash it out and throw the rest away.
Mac+Cheese ok, but not made on premises.
The mashed potatoes are excellent but way overpriced, and they are so stingy with the gravy that if you order two quarts of mashed potatoes they try to give you not quite a ½-​pt gravy and you have to ask for more, which they want to charge you for.
Verdict: slightly over-​priced (the sides are the reason), and waaaaaaaaay overrated.

I found myself in Athens, Ohio this week. Drove by this place and had to stop. I mean, if you look at pics of the outside, you have to step in. Let me say I am a HUGE fan of Hot Chicken Takeover in Columbus and fried chicken in general. Trust me when I say that this is the real deal. Bona fide. Wonderful.
You order at the counter. The staff is amazingly friendly and helpful. None of that «if you don’t know how it’s done here, you are an idiot» attitude you find in so many places. You place your order and go sit down. They bring you your food. The place is old and simply furnished. But who cares? The clientele is a m ix of regular working folk, students, and newbies like me. All are serious about the chicken. I had a breast and a thigh. The thighs are smallish so they brought two for the same price. The chicken is moist (even the breast) and perfectly cooked. Full of flavor on its own. The crust is crispy, flavorful without being overly spiced and comes off as you bite through it, without huge pieces of it breaking off at once. It is incredible chicken. If someone did not order chicken, they ordered fried whitefish which was very popular also.
I noticed everyone else ordered sides, from mac’n’cheese, to slaw, to beans, etc. They all looked great and didn’t last long on the table. I would imagine they are great also but cannot say for sure.
I ordered sweet tea and it was tooth-​hurting sweet. Only off note.
This is rightfully an institution (been around in some form since 1947, a good year) in Athens. And worthy of the highest praise. I cannot wait to go back. Worth a drive.

Best fried chicken in Ohio easily. Local place that has been there forever and is often overlooked by students. Hidden gem!

Best fried chicken north of Dixie. It cannot be stated any clearer than that. What the shop lacks in ambiance, the chicken more than makes up for.

I have been eating at this restaurant since I was a child. By far the best chicken I’ve ever had. The same goes for the gizzards too. I always try to take people who are not from the area there. I have never had a complaint nor have anyone I’ve taken there. As a matter of fact they always enjoy it. If you’re a fan of chicken, this is a restaurant you have to try.

Family enjoyed it but, I was not impressed. Felt the breading on my chicken sandwich was salty but, fried chicken was very juicy. Will probably return but, will not try chicken sandwich again.

Very good chicken, and consistent too. Cozy atmosphere with cold sides and sodas available. Affordable and fresh.

Good, fast, cheep (sic). There’s a reason this is an Athens institution. The fried chicken is awesome, and it’s hard for even the most gluttonous chicken fiend to spend more than $ 10 here. The chicken bits (sold by the pound on the cheap) are beloved by those in the know, but the good old fashioned fried chicken is hard to pass up. Their sides are legit, too.

This chicken is delicious. It really doesn’t get any better than this. I graduated a couple years ago from OU and I still crave their crispy, juicy 5 piece meal (usually it’s more like a 7 piece, because they’re awesome).
Their fries are solid. Their chicken hearts are phenomenal (like, really, seriously.) Don’t be scurred and branch out from the usually Court Street fare. Miller’s Chicken is the real deal Holyfield of chicken – knockout flavor, reasonable prices and DUDE, those chicken hearts.
And, the sides are NOT average at all. Creamy mac-​n-​cheese, crisp fries…
If you’re looking for a place to smash some food. This is the place.
P. S. don’t forget to sprinkle a little Frank’s Red Hot… I put that sh*t on everything.

First, they close at 7pm on Saturdays.
Thank you to the young lady who allowed us to eat quickly in the dining room while she swept so we didn’t have to eat on the road.
The chicken was no better than KFC. It was delicious but didn’t match the hype.
The fries were frozen not fresh. The makes mashed potatoes and gravy were good and my son loved the mac and cheese.
The food was cheap, service was fast and they let us use the dining room for 10 minutes past closing.
Great restaurant for the college crowd missing moms cooking.

Some of the best fried chicken I’ve ever had. Super crispy on the outside, juicy and tender on the inside and perfectly spiced. You can get chicken hearts and livers here too if that’s your thing. The sides are very average otherwise I might have considered giving it a 5 star.

I expect my fried chicken to be tender, juicy, flavorful, and crunchy of these Miller’s was only juicy. I had a breast, thighs, and onion rings. Of the 3 I would only order the onion rings again. The thighs were tiny, basically 2 bite size, had no flavor and were tough. The breast was of good size but also tough and stringy. The coating was under-​seasoned and not that crunchy, it did stay on when you bit into it but most would come off when I tried to chew through the skin.
When you order everything is a-​la carte, so no lunch or dinner specials. The place is mainly in a residential area and off the beaten tract of Athens. It is fairly small, you go up to the counter to order, looks to have about 10 tables.
Overall the chicken was below average, under seasoned and tough.

Simple, no frills restaurant that serves just plain old fantastic chicken and some other very yummy stuff to go along with it. I’m not sure, but I think this place has been around forever, and they just keep consistently making good food. It’s definitely off the beaten path, and I love to hear stories of how people have found it accidentally when they were driving around somewhat lost or looking for something else. We feel it is definitely well worth an occasional drive from our home in Columbus. If you want to make it a truly complete Athens experience, grab a bucket from Miller’s and head to Strouds Run on a nice day.

Oh Miller’s, why are you so tasty? (I suppose it has to do with the fact that you are deep fried…) Athens has more then it’s share of fantastic eateries, it seems like this town can do no wrong in any genre of food. This includes fried chicken. Millers offers napkin staining heaps of chicken, sold in big buckets. It is family run, and has been around a long time. Besides chicken, they sell many other fried delights, including just about every type of fried vegetable. They also have many equally good sides, such as biscuits, mac and cheese, and potato salad. Put on some elastic waist pants before entering this store!