Wishbone

I only order one thing here when I come… the Parmesan fries. they are worth it… it is so hard to find good parmesan fries unless you’re dining out at an expensive restaurant. This is the one place I can go to just order the fries to go. I share some with a few friends of mine and they devoured it saying it was like, heaven came down and fit itself into this generous box of fries.

Rating is about chicken wings and waiting time– worst chicken wings ever after the longest wait ever!!!

I’m ready to throw the towel in on this place. It’s been hit or miss for me. Last week I went with a coworker and it was a very unpleasant one. She ordered the wings, it comes with this sticky, gooey sauce. Tasty but messy. We got it to go so the cook put the wings with the gooey sauce in the box with just a paper liner in it. PURE DISASTER, she picked up the box and the sauce was dripping, or I should say pouring out of the box. She had a trail dripping onto the floor, on her jeans. A big disappointment for me is the mac and cheese, it’s more like pasta shells swimming in pale orange soup. A couple of times I’ve ordered the fried chicken to discover it’s not ready and this is an hour after opening. They need to get their act together and make some improvements. The batter on the chicken is a bit peppery for my taste but has a nice crunch.

This place is awful and overpriced. The chicken is extremely peppery. The slaw is overly tangy.

While I realize that I should not expect a great meal in an upscale mall food court and that this place has just changed over from Catch Isle to Wishbone, I was extremely disappointed by the gloppy and flavorless mess that they passed off as a fried chicken sandwich. The bun, which was not fresh and, therefore, falling apart, was twice the size of the chicken and was smothered in bland cole slaw. The chicken itself was only slightly better than a chicken sandwich at a chain fast-​food place.
Very disappointing … not likely to try it again.

Here’s the thing: Mary’s Free Range Chicken is supposed to be awesome – I’m speaking from experience at other places that serve it. At Wishbone, they completely ruined that quality chicken by overfrying and underseasoning it: this is the worst fried chicken I’ve ever had in SF, perhaps anywhere. Dry, almost tasteless, and overly thick on the batter. The biscuit was also dry, and the mac n cheese had some taste to it but was ultimately mediocre. Had I pulled a wishbone out of my chicken, I would’ve wished for a refund. A waste of $ 9. I should’ve gotten the fish and chips, which was surprisingly $ 2 cheaper.

This place just recently changed their name to wishbone. The service use to be really slow but the grilled fish tacos were great.
Now it’s got a new name, the same slow service, and the food has gone downhill… Will not be coming back for the tacos (or anything else) anytime soon.

I was lured here by two coworker friends who were raving about the fried chicken. STOP. HOLD ON. WAIT A MINUTE. You mean to tell me, in the lovely beautiful smelling SOMA that I work in, there’s my vice? FRIED CHICKEN??? Hell. No. I gotta try it for myself.
I shoulda seen the red flags. It was in the mall. Ugh. But alas, inside, I’m still a girl believing that dreams come true! So you can see how dissatisfied I was when I went BALLZ OUT and ordered the fried chicken thighs and mac and cheese for a side order. Oh and um… please don’t judge me– I ordered some wings for the table as an appetizer.
The long awaited dream came. And then nothing. I bit into my chicken and my friends who were so loving their chicken were waiting for my reaction. I don’t know how to lie when I don’t like my food. They hella hyped up that chicken and I was so disappointed. Like a woman who expected her blind date to be so so fine based on the sexiness of his voice and be let down with his looks. Sorry!!!
I didn’t like some spice or herb they put in the batter. No buens. Me no likes. The mac and cheese was grainy, like polenta crap. ***Please, Wishbone, youze in the mall, don’t try too hard. You effed it up.
One thing I did approve of were the chicken wings I ordered as appetizer. It was Asian style fried chicken– fried and then covered with some sweet spicy chili sauce. Oh yeah, it was good.
Their fries are pretty tasty too, gotta admit, it was hella good especially with the parmesan cheese on it. They’re called, «Parm Fries.» Yah, I know, just a bit fobuloso. Haha it’s ok, I can say that!

Izz ain’t fried chicken —
Izz fried slicken.
Dems ain’t honey biscuits —
Dems honey legitscuits.
Yat ain’t coleslaw —
Yat coledownbylaw.
Jeet ain’t a takeout bag —
Jeet a real effin’ grocery bag.
Plus milk tea wtheezy?
Freshly ground, not syzzurps.