Mon Jun 25, 2012
Food and Drink

Paulette’s Original: your one-stop shop for donuts and fried chicken

The lunch crowd descended on Leslieville’s newest takeout joint, Paulette’s Original Donuts and Chicken (913 Queen St. E.) as it officially opened for business today. The store is an offshoot of Delica Kitchen (both owned by Devin Connell) and specializes in—as the name suggests—fried chicken and donuts that come in regular size ($2.75) and donut-hole portions (eight for $4.50). Each day, Paulette’s will feature seven different donut flavours; today’s are blueberry balsamic, cinnamon latte, root-beer float, raspberry rose, mango-yuzu, and D’Oreo—each with colourful swirls fit for a Dr. Suess book. Donuts are available in the morning from 7 a.m. and the chicken starts frying for lunch at 11a.m.; prices are $8 for two “snack size” portions of chicken and $15 for a half-chicken combo with a side. It’s not exactly Toonie-Tuesdays-at-KFC cheap, but the chicken is considerably crispier, less oily, and doesn’t feel like a grease bomb exploded in your stomach. They also come with dipping sauces and salts like—an Indian-inspired garam masala salt—for an extra kick.

With Paulette’s now located right beside Mercury Espresso, across from Ed’s Real Scoop, and just a few steps away from Leslieville Pumps, the intersection of Queen and Carlaw has become a hungry east-end office worker’s dream come true.

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Digger

Save some money and go to Chick ‘n’ Joy instead.
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5:13 pm on February 15, 2013

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gwen234

wow, jackie, you had to read the menu for yourself? scandalous! it’s fried chicken and donuts, and it’s AWESOME!
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9:57 am on June 29, 2012

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shauna jones

I’ve gone to Paulette’s twice and just love the food. The chicken is crispy on the outside and moist and full of flavour inside. Having a choice of dipping sauces and spiced up salts is genius. Hard to pick a favourite donut, although I’ll be back this weekend for the Raspberry and Coffee ones.
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6:49 pm on June 28, 2012

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jackie

I was excited to eat at Paulettes, but I left confused. Firstly $21 for 8 pieces of chicken? These prices are only for the Bay Street Crowd. Fried chicken is supposed to be a comfort food not an unattainable luxury. Secondly, I don’t get the theme. The restaurant is called Paulettes and the staff is dressed like 1950′s “soda jerks” serving Korean style chicken. Did I miss something? Lastly, the service was inept and the cashier couldn’t even list the dipping sauces they had available, as if the choices were endless. I had to view the paper menu taped on the wall myself to choose what I wanted to accompany my Tempura style chicken. In the end the chicken was oily, tasteless and unfulfilling. My recommendation, avoid Paulettes and seek really good fried chicken elsewhere.
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3:30 pm on June 28, 2012

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jeff

The service I had was lovely! Obviously one must keep in mind that the people you saw probably JUST started working there seeing as it opened on monday!
The donuts are AMAZING, and my fried chicken was spectacular!
As for the theme, I believe it’s meant to be welcoming, cute, and clean: which it is!
They’re using natural ingredients and not farmed chickens which means YES it WILL be pricier. If you’re living in a world of KFC then YES it’s much pricier, but for the quality: it is worth it!
A jem of a shop!
Cute and quaint!
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12:09 am on June 30, 2012
Matt

Actually 8 pieces of chicken for $21 is actually not that expensive considering that buying two grain-fed non farmed Chicken breasts at the grocery store will set you back $10-$12. Where are you eating, Bulk Barn?
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1:59 pm on February 12, 2013