Chicken Salad Chick is beloved in LH for their sweet tea, cookies, pimento cheese and chicken salad.
Every time a vacant spot opens up in a Lake Highlands strip center or an announced restaurant cancels plans to build in our neighborhood, my phone blows up.
“Tell ‘em we want a Chicken Salad Chick,” neighbors message me. “Who can we call? What can we do?”
Chicken Salad Chick is a favorite of Ladies Who Lunch — those who meet to chat at midday and those who pick up a meal for schoolteachers, sick friends, Mahjong parties and book club. It’s what they tuck into picnic baskets and serve at family reunions.
Chicken Salad Chick was founded in Auburn, Alabama, in 2008 by Stacy and Kevin Brown. They refined their recipe over the years and added new flavors, but the uniquely southern shop focuses on doing one thing well. They now boast more than 200 restaurants, including one in Irving near DFW airport and one in Allen near the outlet mall.
This Friday, Chicken Salad Chick will host a Lake Highlands pop up shop from 4-6 p.m. at Highlands Christian Church, 9949 McCree. You’ll need to preorder on their app under “community drop” and set the location to “Irving.” Select “pickup” with your time, and enter “Highlands” in the special instructions box under each selection.
My favorite flavors? The Classic Carol is safe, with finely minced celery and mayo, but I always grab a tub of Olivia’s Old South, with sweet pickles and egg. Fancy Nancy is the fruity choice, with apples, grapes and pecans, and if the menfolk are joining, I get the hickory smoked Barbie-Q and spicy pimento cheese.
You’ll find a full menu here.
Oh, and I haven’t been able to confirm this yet (I’m still working my sources, so stay tuned), but here’s my theory: the good folks at Chicken Salad Chick are scoping out the Lake Highlands market to open a brick-and-mortar shop. Fingers crossed and order away.
