HOURS
Wed 11:30am-9:00pm
Thursday 11:30am-9:00pm
Friday & Saturday 11:30am-9:30pm
Sunday 11:30am-9:00pm
Lunch Specials
11:30am-3:00pm
Early Bird Specials
3pm-5pm
LOCATION
3 East Allen St.
Winooski
(top of the circle)
(802) 540-8489
“a nice place
for nice people”
Brought to you by the Misery Loves Co. family, Onion City Chicken & Oyster is a neighborhood spot located in the historic Block Building at the top of the Rotary in downtown Winooski.
We serve up mouth-watering fried chicken, perfectly shucked oysters, and classic cocktails in a setting both nostalgic and comforting. Come join us!
Let us know you’re coming!
Onion City
Chicken & Oyster
Sample Menu
Oysters
Four
$16
Six
$22
Twelve
$38
Choose two accoutrements.
Extras $2 each.
Mignonette
Pickled Mustard Seeds
Horseradish Brunoise Kimchi
Extra Lemon Chive Crème Fraiche
Cocktail Sauce Oyster Crackers
Caviar
Served with potato chips and chive créme fraiche
Osetra
12g Tin $32
Beluga
12g Tin $65
How about both?
2x 12g Tin $82
Add Crown Royal $9, Aquavit $8
Hors d’Oeuvres
Shrimp Cocktail
$18
Gulf shrimp, our finest cocktail sauce
Steak Tartare
$18
Smoked cheddar, potato chips
Tater Tots
$18
Smoked char, chive crème fraiche, trout roe
Cheddar Beignets
$9
Honey butter
Clam Chowder
$8/$12
New England style, cup or bowl
Fried Oyster Ssam
$18
Spicy mayo, BBQ pork & kimchi on bibb lettuce
Baskets & More
Hot Dog
$7
served w/ chips, Naked, or All Dressed for $9
Double Dog (two dogs & two sides) $22
Greens & Herbs
$11
mixed greens, fresh herbs, house lemon vinaigrette
add shrimp, fish or chicken $10 add lobster $25
Lobster Roll
$36
served on a New England frankfurter roll with potato chips
choose salad cold or hot buttered
Fish & Crisps
$18
fried hake, tartar sauce, lemon, house crisps
Rough Francis
$19
fried chicken sandwich, hot sauce & blue cheese
comes with chips or greens
$1 from every sale goes to a local non-profit!
Fried Chicken
Proudly serving bone-in
Misty Knoll Farm Vermont chicken
Honey Butter Wings
$14
MLC rough sauce
2-Piece Basket
$22
1 breast piece, 1 drumstick/thigh.
Make it a meal, add two sides for $12
Half Bird
$39
1 wing, 2 breast pieces, 1 drumstick, 1 thigh, neck
Make it ‘family style’ choose three sides for $16
Whole Bird
$74
2 wings, 4 breast pieces, 2 drumsticks, 2 thighs, neck. Make it ‘family style’ choose five sides for $28
A la Carte
Collard Greens
Cabbage Slaw
Potato Salad
Kimchi Spicy Pickles
Baked Beans
Biscuit(s)
Choose 1
$8
Choose 3
$20
Choose 5
$36
Add Bacon
$3
Extra Honey Butter or Tartar
$2
Side Ranch or Rough Sauce
$2
Onion City
Chicken & Oyster
Sample Drink Menu
House Cocktails
Have it our way…
The Whiskey Sour $13
Bourbon, house sour mix, citric acid
The Daiquiri $12
Jamaican Rum, fresh lime, MSG
The Corpse Reviver $13
Polish Vodka, Cointreau, Cocchi, fresh lemon
The Dirty $13
Vodka, picholine brine, dry vermouth, MSG
The Sazerac $14
Rye, Cognac, demerara, Peychaud’s, Herbsaint
The CC & Ginger $12
Canadian Club, fresh ginger, fresh lime
The Pink Lady $14
Gin, apple brandy, house grenadine, lemon, egg
The Bee-Haw $15
brown-butter Tom-Cat, honey, lemon, Peyuchaud
The Margarita $13
Reposado, Cointreau, smoked agave, lime
The Negroni $14
Campari, Carpano Antica, Roku Gin
The Bloody Mary $13
Polish Vodka, MLC bloody mix
Zero Proof Cocktails
Honey Honey $7
raw honey, verjus, cucumber, clarified orange
Santa’s Little Helper $7
aperitivo syrup, grapefruit, soda, smoked salt
Ivy League Suit $10
clarified orange, aperitivo syrup, töst tea
Michel-nada $9
house bloody mix, Rescue Club Pils
Cider & Sake
Kinoene, ‘Yuzushu’, yuzu sake $38
Best with fried chicken
Isastegi, Basque still cider $7/$22
Pour from a height
‘Basa Jaun’, Basque sparkling cider $45
Proper at any time
Draft
Onion City Light $5/$11
For us, from the bad side of the river 3.2%
Zero Gravity ‘Little Wolf’, Pale Ale $7
Gluten-reduced 4.7%
Kramer & Kin, Black IPA $8
Dark as the night is long 7%
Von Trapp, Helles Lager $6
Herbacious & refreshing 4.9%
Hill Farmstead ‘Edward’, APA $8
Literally the best beer in the world 5.2%
Goodwater, Red Ale $8
Irish style 5.2%
Graft ‘Farm Flor’, Cider $8
Dry & tart, 6.9%
Can Beer
Genesee Cream Ale $4
12oz Can 5.1%, a modern classic
Oxbow ‘Farmhouse’, Saison $6
12 oz Can 6%
Bitburger, Pilsner $5
16.9oz Can 4.8%
Zero Gravity ‘Conehead’, IPA $6
12 oz Can 5.7%
Wine
our finest examples…
Naveran, Cava $12/XX/$36
Xarel-lo, Macabeo & Parellada
Das Glitz, Pet Nat $13/XX/$45
A flawless fancy of German Grapes
Domaine du Vieil Orme, Rosé Pet Nat $54
Cab Franc, bubbles that just won’t quit
A. Margaine, Champagne $72/$120
Romance for two (or one)
Gusborne, ‘Sham’pagne $111
From Kent, England
“I can’t believe it’s not Champagne!”
‘Gastronomie’ 2018, Champagne $120
Old vine. Caviar’s BFF
‘Vinous Venus’, apple-grape co-ferment $32
Tastes like strawberries & summer
White
Domaine de Grisy, Chardonnay $13/$24/$42
Creamy, lemon dreamy
Tintero, Vino Blanco $27
Italian blend with just a touch of Moscato
Flysch, Txakolina $12/$22/$36
High acid, playful on the palate
Domaine. Parentiére, Muscadet $12/$22/$36
Amazing with oysters
Picpoul, Piquepoul $10/$18/$36
You’ll want the shrimp cocktail
Patrick Piuze, Chablis $72
Old growth Chardonnay
Roger Neveu, Sancerre $66
all Sauvignon Blanc, all the time
Rene Lequin-Colin, Burgundy Blanc $81
Oaky & bright. Your new dream wine
‘Gravonia’, Rioja Blanco $90
R. Lopez Heredia 2015. Cult following
‘Tondonia’, Rioja Blanco $128
R. Lopez Heredia 2011. ‘Unicorn Wine’
Orange
Populis, Californian Blend $15/$28/$45
Structured but not stiff
Lestignac ‘Michel Michel’, Semillon $68
Sticking it to the ‘Man’, very punk rock
Poderi Cellario E!, Muscat & Nascetta $12/$22/$39
Floral, bright & fun
Pink
Eugene Carrel, Gamay $11/$20/$33
More altitude, less attitude
Kobal, Pinot Grigio $12/$22/$36
Secretly an orange wine
José Luis Ripa, Rioja Rosé $81
Barrel aged, from the Lopez-Heredia fam
You didn’t know a rosé could make you feel this way.
Furlani ‘Maddie’, Schiava $15/$28/$45
Dark, jammy & crushable
Red
Cardedu ‘Praja’, Monica $42
Breezy & dry, just like the island it’s from
La Miraja, Grignolino $45
For the undetermined mood
Cesari ‘Justo Veneto’, Merlot $10/$18/$33
A Ripasso to not pass on
Clos des Fous, Pinot Noir $11/$20/$33
Made by friends for friends
Peybonhomme-Les Tours, Bordeaux $45
Biodynamic Bordeaux.
D. Chante-Perdix, Chateauneuf du pape $111
Order the beignets, trust us
