COLLEGE STATION, TX
The first time we drove pass this place, we thought it was some kind of junk yard. All you could think of buying would perhaps be some antiques, old cast iron stuff etc. It’s location in Bryan is also right where all houses and shops are not in much a good condition. So then, why did we ever stop at such a place. It was for the Social arranged by the “Genetics Program” for Vikram and I being his better half got to attend. Well, we thought it certainly had to be a good place if recommended by a renowned program of TAMU and in believing so we were right.
The chicken oil company is the oldest restaurant in College Station-Bryan community which maintains it’s originality by retaining its look the same as it was back then. It’s sister restaurant “Dixie chicken” is is in the Northgate area of College station and they both look amazingly old, junk and haunted!!
From the name you can rightly guess; it is a chicken place!! although its hard to guess that it is a restaurant and there no signs outside the place that would suggest so! The parking lot is unmarked; you can park wherever and however you want. The formal entrance to the place is a small squicky door that opens into a weird veranda which further opens into the main dinning area. Ahhaa!! and there you enter into an amazing Texas ambience of dinning: a wooden interior decor, unfinished furniture work, old licence plates, stuffed animals, stuffed birds, fish hooks, huge barrels, old advertisement plates, an entire wall full of old beer cans lined in shelves, horse saddles, horse shoes and the sweet smiling, bright and young work staff at the counter. The look is kind of like an old beer bar.
What would be the best thing to eat? For me its the hickory smoked chicken sandwich, my all time favorite buffalo chicken sandwich and lightly salted homemade fries. Although the place a bit expensive that other common sandwich and burger places, you won’t regret that for the ambiance you get in return. Try going on a football game weekend. We did! and it was FULL of people in maroon and white!! GO GO GO TAMU!! teens, graduates, parents, grandparents, children and almost every other age and category you can find!! As you wait for your order on the table, sipping your drink you can easily keep yourself busy appreciating the unique interior until someone taps on the counter and calls your name LOUD!!Sometimes there is live bluegrass music too!
