🍗 Best fried chicken in Australia

14 cities ranked by the strength of their best fried chicken. Follow any city through to its full ranked list.

● Updated September 2026

The verdict: on the numbers, Hobart has Australia’s strongest fried chicken — led by TASTY KOREA CHICKEN (4.6★ across 1,282 Google reviews).

#	City	Its best fried chicken	Rating	Reviews
1	Hobart	TASTY KOREA CHICKEN CBD	4.6★	1,282
2	Brisbane	KCS CHICKEN East Brisbane	4.7★	752
3	Adelaide	KOKKO Norwood	4.8★	353
4	Melbourne	Belles Hot Chicken Melbourne CBD CBD	4.3★	1,999
5	Perth	7 Grams Restaurant Perth CBD	4.5★	1,603
6	Canberra	Grease Monkey Braddon	4.4★	4,154
7	Sydney	Butter Sydney Surry Hills	4.3★	1,348
8	Wollongong	Heavenly Indian Restaurant CBD	5★	429
9	Cairns	Dundees on the Waterfront Cairns City	4.6★	5,317
10	Sunshine Coast	Ricks Garage Palmwoods	4.6★	4,648
11	Darwin	MERAKI Greek Taverna Darwin City	4.8★	725
12	Geelong	Recess Bar + Eats CBD	4.8★	765
13	Newcastle	Light Years - Newcastle CBD	4.7★	1,632
14	Gold Coast	Seoul Bistro Sunnybank	4.5★	4,458

How this national table is built: it is not a separate opinion. Each city contributes the venue that currently tops its own fried chicken ranking, and the cities are then ordered by that venue’s score — review strength above a 3.8 baseline weighted by review volume, plus community mentions where we hold them. Cities are only listed where we actually rank the dish, so an absent city means no ranking yet, not a bad one. Rebuilt weekly.

City by city: Hobart · Brisbane · Adelaide · Melbourne · Perth · Canberra · Sydney · Wollongong · Cairns · Sunshine Coast · Darwin · Geelong · Newcastle · Gold Coast.