Eatery Brings 'Love & Honey' Fried Chicken To Newtown

NEWTOWN TOWNSHIP, PA — Philadelphia’s Love & Honey Fried Chicken is “sharing the love” with Bucks County.

The Fishtown-based elevated fast-casual chicken takeout business opened its doors on Saturday, June 14 at the Village at Newtown shopping center.

Rated as the best fried chicken restaurant in Philadelphia in 2018, the eatery is known for its hand-breaded Nashville and OG fried chicken sandwiches, its chicken tenders, tater tots, wings, cornbread muffins, pimento cheese dip, and house-made sauces.

The shop is among the first suburban locations for Philadelphia’s Love & Honey.

(Love & Honey Chicken)

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The new eatery will predominantly be a call in and takeout service although there will be a limited amount of indoor seating provided.

In 2017, Todd and Laura Lyons opened the first Love and Honey Fried Chicken at 1100 North Front Street in Philadelphia.

“We’re excited to be opening in Newtown. We have a very Americana menu. It’s a chef-driven, fast casual restaurant. We are not fast food,” co-founder Laura Lyons told the Newtown Township Board of Supervisors in 2024. “Both my husband and I are classically trained chefs. We have worked in the industry pretty much our whole lives and careers. We always wanted to open a restaurant together so here we are seven-and-a-half years later.”

Love & Honey Fried Chicken will also be “spreading the love” with 13 new franchise locations, including University City, South Philly, King of Prussia, Ardmore, Marlton, NJ, and Washington D.C.

“Our chicken is hand-breaded and fried to order. We pay attention to details. Three sweet pickles on the Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich - why? So that there is a pickle in every bite. That's the love part,” Lyons explains. “The love we have for each other is how this all started, but when it comes to our business, love is the thought and the attention we give to each item, each order, and each customer.”