This place has been around forever and I am happy to see that the chicken and gravy had not changed one bit from when I was a kid.
When I went to school at the nearby Woodfield School., I practically spent all my lunch money at Chick n Joy. Most time we would try to finish our fries before getting back to the school so Mr. Nanoff, would steal the fries from us... in a form of hallway tax, if I recall.
While the student special is no longer $1.99, it is still a great place to get a chicken meal at a reasonable price.
The chicken were well seasoned - crispy on the outside and moist inside; the fries were the meaty type, more flavor than crunch; and their gravy still have the hypnotic yellow glow.
Eat it the right way and pour the gravy over the chicken and fries!
If the nice lady wasn't sitting next to me at the counter table, I would have licked every drop of the gravy from the box... like I used to.
Nostalgia food do not always live up to its memories.
However, Chick and Joy was just as good as I remembered it.