Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles

Chicken restaurant, Brunch restaurant, Soul food restaurant in Los Angeles, CA

Address
1514 N Gower St, Los Angeles, CA, 90028
Phone
(323) 466-7453
Website
roscoeschickenandwaffles.com

About Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles

Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles is a Los Angeles-area soul food restaurant chain known for its signature dish of fried chicken and waffles, served together or separately, alongside a broader menu of traditional Southern soul food. The chain operates multiple Southern California locations, including Hollywood, South LA, Long Beach, Pasadena, Inglewood-LAX, Anaheim, and La Brea. Beyond dine-in service, Roscoe's offers delivery, branded merchandise, and nationwide shipping of its food through GoldBelly for customers outside the region. The restaurant is known for menu items such as chicken and waffles, fried chicken, chicken sandwiches, wings, mac and cheese, and chicken burgers. Roscoe's also runs a full catering program for events, offering packages built around 20, 40, or 60 pieces of chicken (mixed or all-white meat) paired with a choice of side dish, sized to feed groups of roughly 10, 20, or 30 people, with waffles available separately. Its catering side menu includes dinner salad, chef's potato salad, candy yams, biscuits and gravy, French fries, red beans, mac and cheese, rice, grits, greens, corn bread, and smothered potatoes, along with condiments like Roscoe's Hot Sauce and Red Rooster Hot Sauce. The restaurant maintains an active press and media presence and continues to draw both everyday diners and celebrities to its original Hollywood location.

Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles was founded in 1975 in Hollywood, California, by Herb Hudson, a native of Harlem, New York. As the name suggests, the restaurant became best known for its chicken and waffles, served together or separately, though it also offers more traditional soul food menu items. Soon after opening, Hudson's friends and connections in the Motown music scene and television industry, including Stevie Wonder and Natalie Cole, began spreading the word to other celebrities, including Redd Foxx, who in turn told their own audiences about Roscoe's soul food. Over the decades, notable guests have included Snoop Dogg, Shaquille O'Neal, and even President Obama, cementing the restaurant's reputation as a timeless Los Angeles classic. Roscoe's has also become a favorite filming location for television shows and movies, drawing both everyday diners and celebrities. The Los Angeles Times has called it "such an L.A. institution that people don't even question the strange combo anymore," while The New York Times has described it as a "beloved soul food chain." Visitors to the original Hollywood location may still catch a glimpse of a celebrity diner.

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Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles in Los Angeles, CA