I went to Charleston's in Norman on January 3, 2014 with my parents for my dad's birthday. I, like always, had the chicken fried steak for $14 dollars. Now, I could write about how the service was, or how clean the restaurant was, but this blog is about chicken fried steak. I do not care about anything other than how the chicken fried steak tasted.
This chicken fried steak was on the bigger side, and was on par with the biggest chicken fried steaks I've had. It came with a side of garlic mashed potatoes and coleslaw. The mashed potatoes had bacon and potato skins, and was very good. It was definitely made from scratch and not some box mix. The coleslaw was good, but unremarkable. The mashed potatoes and the chicken fried steak came with some white, country style gravy that covered half of the steak and most of the mashed potatoes. As soon as I got my plate, I immediately requested more gravy, as a gravy free steak is a not very good steak. My first couple bites of steak were only breading, which is common. The breading was very good, but I can't say the same for the meat. It was a bit inconsistent, with some bites being fine, and others being very chewy and tough. It was tough to cut through, which caused the breading and steak to separate. It was also quite salty, but I suspect this was the gravy and not the steak itself. This would have been an okay meal for 8 or so dollars, but 14 is way too high for a chicken fried steak of this quality. Maybe I just had a bad steak, maybe the cook was having a bad day, but I would not order this again.
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