Hillbilly’s

The Irish equivalent of KFC, but better!
If you want quick food and good chicken. here’s your place!
Good choice of burgers and chips, I got the chicken strips meal. 3 is a big enough portion and the chicken is so tender and tasty. Chips on the side and a garlic dip. Boom! job done :)
A little on the greasy side, but what fried chicken isn’t?
Open late too. so I’d be probably given it 4 stars if I was rating this when tipsy or on my way out of town at 2am lol. Doesn’t everything taste amazing then though?

If you’re in the mood for something quick and tasty (and don’t mind the grease), this is a great place to stop. The food has exceptional flavor for being «fast food». It is usually overrun by children screaming in their booths with their folks and there is very little seating available for the amount of customers going in and out.
I’m not much of a gravy person, but this place may have converted me. The gravy is pretty outstanding.
Favorite menu item: Chili Cheese Chicken burger with curry fries.

Have you ever seen that episode of The Simpson’s where Homer decides to become obese and claim a disability? Well if that episode was set in Dublin he probably would have eaten here, so best to limit your attendance.
It only does chicken and it’s pure grease but my-​o-​my it is delicious. The most tender pieces, covered in a flavorsome breadcrumb coating and served in a cardboard box, will induce the best 30 second gorge fest you’ve ever had. Unfortunately at the end of it you’ll be plastered in grease and looking on in horror as the bottom of the box turns transparent. There is nothing healthy on the menu here but I feel that’s the charm and makes it a ‘must try once’ for everyone.
The staff always deliver a solid performance to provide what is comfort food at it’s best. Just remember to bring a wet towel to wipe yourself down afterwords.

What’s to say about Hilly billies? I hardly ever do ‘fast food’, but when I do, it’s Hillybillies. Cannot spell it, but boy, can taste it !!!
Why is is just in Fairview, D3? Chicken, which is so good I cannot describe it, my friend gets ‘gravy’, and loves it, but I never do. I cannot change the habits of a lifetime! Give me some tomato sauce, or brown sauce, yeh, Chef sauce. Has to be Chef sauce. And when we have been partying, it’s a really nice breakfastl!!!
Bouncers on the door at weekend, so otherwise would be 5 stars !!! whatup there? Just dear old Dublin, I guess …
Maria A
”

It’s three o’clock in the morning, you’ve just been turfed out of Baa’Code, but you’re not in the humour for going home just yet. What on earth to do?
Join the scrum at Hillbilly’s, and attempt to order your meal at the same time as 50 other drunks. Now, I know that ordering post-​club food isn’t exactly therapeutic at the best of times, but the sense of entropy is not nearly as acute as it gets at Hillbilly’s during the small hours of the morning.
And, much worse than small trifles such as this, when you go up to the counter and discover that Hillbilly’s sell only chicken-​based meat products. Hold the phone. When you leave a nightclub and decide to get some nosebag, you don’t want sissy chicken. You want MEAT. A kebab or a cheeseburger or something.
The chips in Hillbilly’s aren’t exactly great, but you’re only eating them for the soakage so who cares. And the chickenburger was fine as such things go, but my disappointment of not eating something that moo-​ed or baa-​ed was such that I couldn’t really fully enjoy my chicken and grease meal.
Hillbilly’s is grand is you want chicken on a night out, and it’s not unheard of for people to eat there during the daylight hours, but be warned: they do exactly what they say on the tin — fried chicken and eff all else.

On a recent visit to Cork I was introduced to Hillbilly’s. In the exact wording of my tour guide/​drinking partner: ‘Welcome to Hillbilly’s — the best burgers in the world, and only to be found in Cork’.
Ok, so I admit there’s a bit of artistic license being taken here… the guy had already imbibed a significant amount of alcohol, and had just nipped into the off licence to buy five, yes 5, bottles of red for a rather small after party, so the words weren’t quite so eloquently put.
However, more importantly, you can imagine my surprise — no — shock, horror even, to return to Dublin to find a branch of the exclusive-​to-​Cork Hillbilly’s empire around the corner from my house.
So you see, there’s an important lesson in this for all of us: Cork boys lie. Cork boys are not nice people. Cork boys: 10, Jo: 0.
Anyway, this doesn’t take away from the fact that the ‘BNB — or, breast in a bun’ was one of the better burgers I’d tasted in a while.
As far as takeaways go, Hillbilly’s is a-​ok. After a big night out on the town, Hillbilly’s really does the trick. So does McDonalds, Burger King, or Supermacs, but that’s beside the point.
I wouldn’t be dining here on any special occasions, don’t take a girl here on a date (unless you’re from Cork, in which case I won’t be dating you anyway) and it’s not exactly weight-​loss material, but Hillbilly’s is what it is.
They put it most brilliantly on their website — You might be a Hillbilly if: you consider a six-​pack and a movie high-​quality entertainment.
So go on, ‘Experience the secret’…