Ezell's Famous Chicken is a Seattle fast food restaurant. The first restaurant was opened on February 3, 1984, in Seattle's Central District neighborhood, near Garfield High School.[1] The restaurant chain has 12 other locations in the Puget Sound region, including a location on the Microsoft campus in Redmond that opened in 2006.[2] In 2015, the chain opened its Spokane location, its first restaurant outside of Western Washington.[3] The first international location for Ezell's opened in June 2015, in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.[4] The Sharjah location has since closed.
Ezell's was made famous when talk show host Oprah Winfrey called it her favorite fried chicken. It is also said she has the chicken flown to her in Chicago when she has a craving.