Home of Chicken and Waffles

This place always makes you feel comfortable, the wall pictured in my shot has each item and each person that the item is named after. I get the Jason's item which hadms black eyed peas, rice, chicken and a biscuit. The wait staff is super nice and the dishes are through the roof. The dishes taste like they were carefully made or I should say made with love.

We have been coming here since the beginning and we always will.

The best part is I can now take my daughter with me and there is even a plate with her name on it.

Came back because majority of my party wanted to try this place. Since I've been before I thought maybe it has gotten better, but I was wrong. This review is solely on the food because the service was great. I was disappointed again and I should have trusted my gut and not got anything. The mac n cheese once again was the worst thing. It had no flavor and was just noodles and oil topped with cheese. It definitely needed some seasoning and an actual cheese sauce. I think I rather have Stouffers Mac and Cheese. The chicken was OK, but dang those pieces were small. The chicken did not have a crunch or anything. It definitely needs better batter. The grits I think was okay, but I never had it before so I don't have a reference point. However there was a lot of little bubbles in it that kind of look like spit or something. I assume it was like butter or something.

Honestly, I am not trying to come back to this place. I've given it two tries and both times failed me.

My husband and I were very excited to try this place and the waiter was really nice but it took an hour to get our food and when I asked for pickles for my burger, they told me they don't carry any in their restaurant. The vibe was nice and music was good but do not come here if you are hungry. The people who got seated before us and after us got their food before we did. And to top it off, they never gave us silverware so after waiting an hour for our food, we also needed to wait longer to get our silverware.

The iced tea tasted so bad like chemicals, we had to ask for it to be taken off the order.

I would like to add for all the burger people out there, pickles are essential for burgers. Why have a burger on the menu if there aren't any pickles???

I was so upset that I didn't even eat my food.

Visited the Home of Chicken and Waffles for the first time this Saturday and I must say the food did not disappoint.

We arrived at around 7:00PM on a Saturday and Jack London Square was really busy. With that being said, parking was a annoyingly packed. We ended up parking at a parking garage about 3 blocks away. So make sure to keep this in mind when going here. I'm pretty sure there are some days where parking is easy to come by but not this time.

When we arrived at the restaurant, the section to the left was closed so we were told to sit to the right side. We grabbed our own menu and sat ourselves.

There's ample amount of tables in the restaurant but like I said the other side was closed.

Customer Service (3/5)- This was honestly what made me give this restaurant a 3 star. When we sat it took about 15 minutes until someone came to our section to get drinks or even acknowledge us. There was a bartended tending to the bar and when one of the bus girls came by to get our drink, I told her were ready to order and long be hold, the bartender was apparently our server. She did not acknowledge us at all, along with the 2 or 3 other parties that sat themselves in her section. The bus girl told her that were ready to order which I'm glad she came within a couple of minutes. And if you're wondering, No the bar was not busy and she could've at least acknowledge us and gave us some water or something. Anyways, we placed our order and ordered our drinks. We ordered 3 items from the menu. Their Garlic Fries, Keith's Tackle and Dave's Choice. The appetizer came out a decent time along with our entrée.

Food (5/5):
Garlic Fries- Highly recommend this for appetizer. The fries was coated in garlic sauce or whatever sauce they have mixed in with garlic. But their garlic fries was the bomb. Even though the fries was coated with sauce, it was not soggy at all and it was still crispy. We had to stop ourselves from eating the whole plate because we still had out entrée.

Keith's Tackle- This was my order and I ordered it because it came with mac & cheeses and I'm a sucker for Mac & cheese. My order came with two chicken wings, waffle and mac & cheese. The syrup they have was so good that I literally poured the whole cup of syrup on the chicken. LOL. I highly recommend this meal since it comes with mac & cheese if you love mac and cheese. If I didn't eat half of the fries I would've been able to finish my meal.

Dave's Choice- My boyfriend ordered this meal. It came with 8 chicken strips and a waffle. Honestly my boyfriend even had enough to take home with him but he finished all his waffles and he also loved the syrup.

Food wise this place is pretty good. I love a good authentic classis chicken and waffles and this place nailed it.

I'm not sure if this restaurant is just understaffed but not having a server on the floor and having your bartender serve guest who are on the floor is just not okay, especially for a Saturday night. Even to get refills on our drink, they took so long to get that for us.

In the end, a guy came up to our table and apologize for the delay. I'm not sure if this was the manager, but the effort was good. Will definitely come back since their food was really good. I really hope they add more staff, as this would help them tremendously.

An Oakland staple! It's moving locations! It used to be packed in here but lately it's been hard to come to Oakland and not get your car bipped. I love their waffles, I like to say it's better than Roscoe's in LA. Their Mac and cheese was dry too. I wish I tried their potatoe salad, next time! Their chicken is good but a little dry. The staff is so pleasant but we waited a long time for our food. Overall, I'd come back! It's family owned so I will always support!

I absolutely love the homeboy it's the chicken and waffle and it's the best. The waitress is always so polite and the ambiance is nice

Home of Chicken and Waffles has the chicken game on lock!

We all ordered variations of chicken (wings, strips, etc.) and all came out satisfied. You know it's good when we're in food comas!

Prices are a bit high, but this place is great - perfect spot to go right before catching a movie.

Their food SLAPS!!!! Some of the best soul food I've ever had on the west coast!' They truly know what they're doing.

Everything taste's just like your grandma made it!! You can taste the LOVE in every dish!! I had the "Lil Kim" and man the chicken was amazing!!! The yams made me drool! Everything was so good and even the bottomless mimosa's were the best too.

I definitely will visit them again and would highly recommend!!!

Let me start off by saying phone service was great. Ordered our food through Yelp and called to see if it was ready we ordered about 1:20pm and order time for pick up was 1:45 to 2:05 then got pushed to 1:59-2:19 decided to call and the gentleman was very friendly and at 1:50 it was ready unfortunately let me state if your alone and want a pick up an order there is no curbside pick up near jack london square area so it was impossible to find parking just for pick up. So big downfall to pick up order. Thankfully even though the hotel next to it is for customers only a security officer let me park real quick for a pick up order.
Ok back to the food
They use plastic containers that don't hold well for fried chicken which makes your food soggy and not crispy. I ordered the Gordon's bank it's one breast chicken with Mac and cheese and yams and cornbread. Chicken flavor was good by definitely dry the Mac and cheese was good and the yams are cut too big too enjoy. I usually like mine smashed like a sweet potato casserole the corn bread was also dry wish they added a honey butter to it to keep it moist.

I came here randomly because I saw they had chicken chicken and chicken. I order the chicken and waffle option which gave me one waffle and two chicken wings. Over all this was a good option I shared and it was a good size. I really like the waffle it was thin and crispy and the chicken was good it was dipped in buttermilk. We also order the drumstick wings and this was one thing I did not like it was dry and it felt like it was re- fried. The service was okay - they kept bring other people food to our table and we would tell them we didn't order. They would take it back and give it to the correct table which made me wonder if my food ended up on someone else's table. Overall my experience was okay.