Guthrie’s Chicken Fingers

I recently tried the chicken here and WOW! Try this place. Way better than the generic places that just put boring chicken in the fryer. Great people and the owners are great people

First time bucket of strips and sweet tea
Chicken was great sauce left my wondering what the hype was
Will be back family thought it was very good

I love the simple menu. Chicken fingers, crinkle cut fries, Texas toast and cole slaw. The small menu allows them to focus on making a few fantastic items instead of a bunch average items.
Let’s talk a little about the chicken. This is cooked to order and you can taste that it is. Whole pieces of chicken tenderloin and not the formed bits. Lightly battered GBD and tender.
The crinkle cut fries are done just right. Not soggy or not dried out over done. The cole slaw has a balanced taste with the right amount of vinegar acid and mayo taste. Texas toast is buttery and toasted on one side. The dipping sauce for the chicken is unique and delicious. I can tell it is mayo based and completely different than your typical BBQ or honey mustard sauce.
We have been here several times and each time we received excellent service. Very courteous staff and they followed up with us to make sure everything was okay as we were eating.

Delicious and very consistent! The chicken fingers are always great, occasionally they have groupons and text coupons. Great to go!

If you love raising canes chicken, you’ll like Guthrie’s.
They’re almost the same delicious golden brown chicken tenders and special BBQ sauce.

The chicken is to die for and with all those sauces, you can relish in them. Cole slaw is just perfect in the amount of mayo. As for the fries and toast, they’re fine. But those chicken tenders, which I’m pretty sure are cooked to order since both times I went to the drive through I waited probably around 8 minutes each time, are amaze-​balls.

I took the 30 mile drive today to sample Gutherie’s Chicken Fingers after reading all the reviews. The bottom line: let’s call it ok. The toast: great. The chicken: ok, decent flavor in coating, a little salty. The fries: soft and tender inside, could have a bit more crisp on the exterior. The cole slaw: decent, not over the top with the horse radish, an even handed commercial slaw, but not artisan. The chipotle-​mayo-​pepper sauce was pretty decent, with a very crisp pepper tone.
As others have mentioned, the chicken fingers are a little skimpy in size given the final bottom line price. My plate and drink was a bit under $ 10. Gutherie’s is definitely not a «destination restaurant» but will do for a working lunch. The staff was very pleasant, and the restaurant clean and tidy. Next to each table is a different «black board» type wall treatment where you can leave a note or play tic tac toe. This was my first time in the «steelyard» district of Cleveland, and it was very pleasant.

No bad service here, the cashier was friendly and talkative. I was super curious about trying this place out. I got the meal with the five tenders, texas toast, slaw and fries. I thought it was pretty decent… nothing to go back running to.

Chicken Fingers. Crinkle Cut Fries. Coleslaw. Garlic Bread. Sauce.
I was first introduced to this formula as an OSU student in Columbus at Raising Canes. The two places have almost identical food. This is the only Guthries in the region.
The star here is the fingers dipped in the special peppery, creamy sauce. They are lightly breaded, tender, fried chicken fingers. In my opinion they are better than any other fast food chicken tenders around. You better be feeling fried chicken because that’s all you’re going to get here.
The service can be a little slow. We’ve had better luck calling ahead and picking up inside than waiting in the drive-​thru line.

I will start out and say I go here all the time. Not happy on the way I was treated here tonight. The girl who took my order was completely rude. She was back talking to the kitchen workers and not watching the front at all. I stood there for a while before she came out to take my order. She said may I help you so I gave her my order. She said I not talking to you. Then became rude to me like I knew she is on the headset. Food was great as always. They definitely need to retrain this employee in customer service.

I first heard about this place through an ad in scene magazine. As a lifetime ‘chicken finger fan’ I decided to check it out on my birthday. I went with a friend who had been a vegetarian for 14 years and had never experienced fried chicken. We were blown away and have been back so many times since then. The manager is friendly and everyone seems to enjoy working there. I cannot recommend this place enough. The sauce is incredible. I wish I could figure out how to make it myself! Their social media is really funny, too. @reply them… They will answer!
UPDATE: Their instagram person has deemed me their spokesmodel and had given me a free shirt.

Exactly like canes down in Columbus. Really good but expensive for what it is. It’s a nice alternative for when the chipotle next door has a line wrapped around the building.

good, inexpensive food. i’m a sucker for crinkle cut fries, so that was a good thing. the chicken was crunchy and tasted good. the coleslaw was my favorite part. creamy and just the way i like it.
i’d give it 5 stars but the cleanliness of the place was lacking. the tables were sticky and so were the floors. i hope that wasn’t a normal thing there.
i’d go back but would probably go through the drive thru.

Monday/​lunch — not too busy. Food came out about 10 minutes after ordering, which sounds par for the course. It was worth the wait. Quality pieces of chicken that puts fast food to shame. The fries go well with their special sauce (thanks for the Franks Red Hot tip, too). I didn’t find the cole slaw too offensive, although I know some people don’t like it too wet.
Good value for the quality. Just wish they had a couple more locations… I’ll be back.

One taste of the Guthrie’s sauce immediately brought me back to my college days back in Auburn over 20 years ago! I was so happy that I was in Cleveland for another event so that I could visit this location. IN CLEVELAND! Of all places!
With a very simple menu, Guthrie’s does what they do very well. Freshly prepared chicken fingers, crinkly crinkle fries, refreshing cole slaw, and a piece of toast with just the right amount of crunch. All of this centers around the mysterious and delicious dipping sauce. It’s all about the sauce! Make sure the spend just a little bit more to get extra sauce. It just seems like you never have enough.
Others have tried to imitate, but no one has come close this taste of Alabama.

They have great deals via Groupon and other social media sites which makes this worth it for me but otherwise its kinda steep for junkfood. The same girl was working both times I came in and she couldnt be sweeter. Any employer would be so lucky to have her working for them. The food is all fried and the fries seriously are the same crinkle-​cut, frozen joints we ate in school. Chicken is good and secret sauce is OK… seems mayonase based. Im not an uppity health food twat but I have to be in the mood for this heavy, grease bomb. I always feel full and queasy after I leave here. Maybe the 3 40s of Kobra I took to the head the night before and the wet I smoked with my dude Tito behind the Lido dumpster had me feeling a little «off»?

This place has the best chicken fingers! The place is a bit slow but its worth the wait. All their chicken is freshly hand breaded and fried once you place your order.
It comes out hot and fresh. It’s also very tender and moist on the inside. The chicken is all white meat and is seasoned very well. Breading is also light and crunchy. The color is perfect out of the fryer. You can choose from 5 different sauces, my favorite is their own Guthrie’s sauce. The first time I was here, I had the meal with sides. The sides were OK, but I would skip them and get extra fingers.
My only compliant is that its a bit on the expensive side (I can eat 10 of these fingers easily) but this place offers Groupon pretty frequently so that softens the cost. Excellent alternative if you happen to run into an extremely long line next door (Chipotle)!

Not bad, but certainly not the best chicken fingers I’ve ever had. If you’re going to limit yourself to one thing, you better be the best to keep my attention.
I was hoping Guthrie’s would be a satisfactory substitute or total replacement for my Raising Canes addiction. (Sadly, the closest they are is in Columbus.)
I ordered up a box meal to try out all the key menu offerings.
The tenders were SMALL and a bit too salty, but fresh and well fried.
The toast was «eh.»
The coleslaw was a bit too chunky and could’ve done with a bit more chopping, but the dressing was an unsurprising and basic creamy commercial sauce.
The crinkle fries were wimpy and under seasoned. (Perhaps they could borrow some sodium love from the tenders?)
The Guthrie’s sauce had an ok flavor, but lacked the ‘OMG I could dip a flip flop in this and eat it’ quality I’ve felt when eating other sauces.
All-​in-​all a better option than fast food tenders when the craving strikes and you’re in the Steelyard area, but not someplace I’ll be going out go my way for again.

Oh yeah! Crazy good chicken fingers. You can tell the chicken they use is fresh and high-​quality because the meat is melt-​in-​your-​mouth good and the breading is just right — light and perfect. These are nothing like the frozen dried-​out mess you get at most restaurants for ‘chicken tenders’ — nothing tender about them.
Sean and I stopped in for a quick bite before heading to Playhouse Square for an event — because nothing says class like fast food from Steelyard Commons… but hey whatever. We both went with the ‘box’ which gets you 5 pieces of chicken, fries, a piece of toasted bread, cole slaw and sauce. PLENTY of food for both of us. I was pretty full and for $ 6.45, not bad at all.
The coleslaw was average but nothing wrong with it — not super goopy so that was good. I hate goopy coleslaw. The sauce they come with is tangy and peppery. I really do like it but I’m a sauce junkie so more options would be great — I just like to be ADHD when it comes to sauces. The fries are kind of same-​old crinkle cut but they were crispy and tasty, not soggy like many crinkle cuts you get other places. Fried bread is totally wrong but oh-​so-​good. Basically grease dripping from it but damn is it tasty.
Overall, we highly recommend you try some fast-​food from Guthries. The menu is super limited but if you’ve got a good thing going, just go with it. The service was fast and friendly — they’ll even let you try a chicken sample before you buy! Get in there and get your fat-​kid on.

If your from the south or have ever lived there then you would think like I thought the first time I went here that Guthrie’s is to the North like Zaxby’s is to the South.
I’ve been here several times but on my last visit there was a longgggg wait and only 2 people who came in after me waiting to order. I was compensated by being given a free large drink and a stamped card for a free chicken box meal. They were very courteous and I definitely appreciated the wonderful customer. It actually was some of the best service I’ve received in a long time and the stamp definitely helped me to fill better about the long wait.
The food was definitely good. Wish they would expand and get like the Zaxbys of the south and serve hot wings and BBQ wings and make the tenders where you can have them dipped in sauce. The terns have great flavor and the sauce definitely makes the wings taste that much better! A+