hand-breaded Halal fried chicken
Marinated, hand-breaded, fried to order. Ultra-crispy outside, juicy inside. The star of the house, halal and no compromise.
Our story
The Harlem chicken & waffle,
Parisian version
CRISPY SOUL is a fusion born in the United States and brought to Paris by Houssine and Younes: ultra-crispy halal fried chicken, laid on a soft waffle. The sweet, the savory, the soul of soul food. Nothing else.
100% halal
All our chicken is halal, with zero compromise on taste.
Ultra crispy
Breading worked by hand for a crunch that hits, with every bite.
Fresh ingredients
Fresh and real. English cheddar aged at least 7 months, ingredients hand-picked one by one.
Homemade
Cane-sugar waffles, smashed-to-order avocado and fresh-pressed homemade lemonade, every day.
Hand-picked
Ingredients we choose ourselves
one by one
No shortcuts on quality. We pick every ingredient like we pick a sample: it has to hit.
hand-breaded 
7 months minimum Aged English cheddar
A real English cheddar, aged at least 7 months in the cellar. Character, meltiness, a punch that wakes up the burger.
fresh, never made ahead Smashed-to-order avocado
Smashed to order, never made ahead. Fresh, creamy, bright green. The perfect contrast on the piping-hot chicken.
cane sugar Homemade waffle
House-made batter with cane sugar. Soft inside, golden outside. The base of any waffle burger worth its name.
Back to the roots
It all begins
one night, live in concert
Harlem, the golden age of jazz. The musicians play set after set deep into the night. When they come off stage, it's too late for dinner, too early for breakfast.
So the kitchens serve both at once: the evening's fried chicken, laid on the morning's waffles. The scorching chicken, the syrup, the warm waffle. The savory crunch, the sweet melt. A fusion that became a soul food classic: chicken & waffle.
That taste, that late-night energy, we swore we'd bring it back.
Houssine & Younes
Started from
the bottom
Houssine and Younes, friends for over 15 years, raised on 90s US rap: the sound in the headphones, basketball on the TV, fried chicken on the weekend. Their dream wasn't to do like everyone else. It was to do better.
The idea obsesses them like a hook on loop: bring the real Harlem chicken & waffle here, without watering it down. Two rules set in stone. One: 100% halal, so nobody's stuck on the bench, everyone's at the table. Two: the crunch, the real deal, hand-breaded, fried to order, never left waiting under a heat lamp.
They started small. A counter, a recipe, word of mouth. And it caught on. Since then, it's one opening a year, like a mixtape that drops every summer and runs on repeat. Seven restaurants. Over fifty crew members keeping the machine running. A community growing faster than the hype.
No pointless features, no filler. Fried chicken, waffle burger, nothing else. The rest, it's the crunch doing the talking.
7
restaurants
1 / year
open since day one
+50
crew members
The know-how
How we make the crunch hit
01
Breading that took 1 year
Over a year of R&D to develop OUR breading: the one that holds through frying, crunches beautifully and keeps a subtle taste. Marinated, hand-breaded, piece by piece. That's the secret.
02
Fried to order, never greasy
We fry to order, on high-end machines set to the right temperature. The result: fried chicken that's never greasy, never oily. Crispy outside, juicy inside, served piping hot.
03
Stacked on a waffle
The signature move: fried chicken laid on a soft waffle, sauces, homemade coleslaw. Sweet meets savory for an incredible combo. The waffle burger was born.
The signature
The waffle
burger
Cane-sugar waffle, ultra-crispy fried chicken, aged English cheddar, smashed-to-order avocado, homemade coleslaw, a drizzle of sauce. The sweet-savory combo that pulls a smile from the first bite. Best waffle burger in town, and we stand by it.
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Push the door open
Neon, US culture, basketball and cinema on the walls. Every CRISPY SOUL has its own vibe. Here's what's waiting for you inside.
