Mrs. Knott's Chicken Dinner Restaurant

A family restaurant specializing in fried chicken and pies. You don't have to go into the theme park to eat at the restaurant. Going south on Beach Boulevard, enter via the Marketplace entrance, and look for free parking spots reserved for the restaurant.

You don't have to go into the theme park to enjoy a meal at this OC landmark; it sits just outside Knott's Berry Farm by the main entrance. Its wooded interior and charming outdoor patio comfortably provide a rustic link to the chicken, biscuits, boysenberry pie and old-time sides like rhubarb and corn, which are comfort food of the highest order. The history of the place is the real draw....

Cordelia Knott's fried chicken and boysenberry pies drew crowds so big that Knott's Berry Farm was built to keep the hungry customers occupied while they waited. The restaurant's current incarnation (outside the park's entrance) still serves crispy fried chicken, along with fluffy hand-made biscuits, mashed potatoes, and Mrs. Knott's signature chilled cherry-rhubarb compote. On a busy day the...