US Open Brings $100 Coqodaq Chicken Nuggets to New York Public

If you want dinner this week at New York’s Coqodaq, the fried chicken and Champagne spot that’s gone viral, you’ll have to settle for a 10 p.m. seat at the bar or join the waitlist, which can reach 1,500 people a night, for a more prime-time table.

Or you could go to the US Open, where the restaurant’s CQDQ stand in the outdoor Food Village has chicken wings in abundance and a mercifully short line. On the third day of first-round men’s and women’s singles, visitors took photos of the restaurant’s bright red to-go boxes, vessels for a package of six chicken nuggets and three sauces for $26. The $20 chicken sandwiches had sold out by midday, though more were on their way.

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