10 Small Town Kentucky Fried Chicken Joints Locals Drive 4 Hours For!

In 1956, a 66-year-old man in Corbin, Kentucky, sold his restaurant and drove around the country selling a chicken recipe. Eight years later he sold the company for two million dollars. By 1975 he was telling a Louisville newspaper that the gravy tasted like wallpaper paste, and he and his wife had opened a restaurant of their own. This summer, that restaurant was put up for sale, and then something happened that nobody in town expected. This countdown visits ten Kentucky places where locals will tell you the chicken beats the bucket, plus two KFC stops worth the detour. For every stop: the story, the hours and prices we could find, and the catch. Maps and charts are original to Hidden Kentucky. CHAPTERS 0:00 The Colonel, the gravy and a restaurant for sale 1:01 The ten stops 1:47 #10 Druther's, Campbellsville 3:30 #9 Galactic Fried Chicken, Dayton 5:03 #8 Wallace Station, near Midway 6:44 #7 Greyhound Tavern, Fort Mitchell 8:11 #6 Tousey House Tavern, Burlington 9:46 #5 Our Best Restaurant, Smithfield 11:23 #4 The Lighthouse Restaurant, Sulphur Well 13:01 #3 Joe's Drive-In Chicken, Isom 14:44 #2 Beaumont Inn, Harrodsburg 16:37 Bonus: Corbin and Mount Vernon 18:04 #1 Claudia Sanders Dinner House, Shelbyville 21:13 What's next SOURCES Only sources the narration itself names are listed. Add the links from your research notes before publishing. Kentucky Living magazine readers' awards (Druther's, Our Best Restaurant, The Lighthouse) and its profile of The Lighthouse Cincinnati Magazine (Galactic Fried Chicken) Garden & Gun (chefs' fried chicken picks: Wallace Station, Greyhound Tavern) MSN (Greyhound Tavern) Kentucky's tourism office (Tousey House Tavern menu); a Northern Kentucky historian, 2024 An oral history recorded in 2016 (Joe's Drive-In Chicken); Cheapism Duncan Hines's guidebooks (Beaumont Inn, Sanders Café); James Beard Foundation America's Classics, 2015 Tasting Table (the Mount Vernon KFC buffet) Shelby County's tourism office (Claudia Sanders Dinner House) The Settle family's public post, August 2026 Hours and prices: as checked for this video (a snapshot; call before you drive) CREDITS See `credits-hk03.md` (paste its full text here before publishing: photographs, film, stock video, maps, charts). Music — REQUIRED IN THE DESCRIPTION "Deliberate Thought", "Wallpaper", "Laid Back Guitars", "Dreamer", "Sidewalk Shade", "Wholesome", "Heartwarming", "Carefree", "Easy Lemon" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Notes All stops are in Kentucky. Maps and charts are original to Hidden Kentucky. No third-party YouTube footage is used. Most of these restaurants have no freely licensed photographs, so much of the food on screen is illustrative and is labelled that way (top right): similar dishes from other kitchens, a Southern potluck table, stock cooking footage. Pictures of the Sanders Café in Corbin, the Tousey House, the Beaumont Inn, the Claudia Sanders Dinner House, the Greyhound Tavern's fried chicken and the town views are the real places.