{"id":3265,"date":"2025-06-11T18:50:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2025-06-11T18:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T15:54:35","slug":"charles-pan-fried-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/restaurants\/charles-pan-fried-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Pan-Fried Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"

Harlem<\/strong><\/p>\n

Address: 340 W 145th St. New York
\nPhone:\u00a0(212) 281-1800
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Sunday – Thursday
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Upper West Side<\/strong><\/p>\n

Address: 146 West 72nd St New York
\nPhone:\u00a0(646) 590-0662
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\n11AM – 10PM
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Address: 439 W 125nd St. New York<\/span>
\nPhone: (646) 618-0438<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Fried Chicken King of Harlem\u201d – The New Yorker<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Charles Gabriel was born October 12, 1947 near Charlotte, North Carolina. He was one of twelve brothers and eight sisters. His parents were sharecroppers. The family \u2013 including Charles from the age of six \u2013 picked cotton from 6am to 6pm on a nearby plantation. In the evening, his mother would cook for the entire family. In his mother\u2019s kitchen, Charles learned to prepare the food we all enjoy today.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At seventeen, Charles moved to New York City to work for an older brother who had opened a restaurant on the Upper West Side. A few years later, he began working at the legendary Copeland\u2019s Restaurant in Hamilton Heights where he stayed for over twenty years rising to the position of head cook.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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By the mid 1980\u2019s, Charles decided to go off on his own. He started cooking out of his Harlem apartment, putting a folding table in front of his building to serve his first customers. One day, a woman asked Charles whether he wanted to buy her food truck. They agreed he would pay her $25 per week until the food truck was paid off. Charles ran his food truck for five years; building his reputation in Harlem and beyond.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Charles\u2019s first brick and mortar restaurant was on 8th Avenue between 152nd and 153rd Streets. His \u201ctake out\u201d spot was soon joined by his \u201cbreakfast\u201d spot and his legendary \u201cbuffet.\u201d He operated all three locations for over twenty years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2021, Charles opened a new series of Charles Pan-Fried Chicken restaurants.
\nHe started in Harlem and the Upper West Side and then, who knows<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What we know for sure is that the cooking he learned from his mother and refined over five decades of hard work has earned him the respect and patronage of not just New Yorkers, but customers from around the country and around the world. Thank you visiting us at Charles Pan-Fried Chicken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Information and photos taken from the site:\u00a0www.charlespanfriedchicken.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Harlem Address: 340 W 145th St. New York Phone:\u00a0(212) 281-1800 Working hours: Sunday – Thursday 11AM – 10PM Friday & Saturday 11AM – 11PM Upper West Side Address: 146 West 72nd St New York Phone:\u00a0(646) 590-0662 Working hours: Sunday – Thursday 11AM – 10PM Friday & Saturday 11AM – 11PM Harlem (West Side) Address: 439 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restaurants"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3274,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3274"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}