Fried Chicken, Caviar, and Serious Champagne
Flatiron · New York · American, Korean · Visit Website ↗
Updated August 2026
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · April 8, 2026
RagingWine reviewed COQODAQ’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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You walk into a sleek Flatiron room built around fried chicken and immediately notice the wine list reads like a Champagne house greatest hits album. The contrast is the whole point — and it works harder than it has any right to. This is not a novelty act.
The 400-600 bottle list leans aggressively into Champagne and French classics, with prestige cuvées from Krug, Dom Pérignon, Billecart-Salmon, and Salon Le Mesnil anchoring the top end. Burgundy gets serious real estate too — Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet and Domaine de la Romanée-Conti show up, meaning someone in this building has actual taste and a good relationship with an allocator. The French focus is intentional and consistent, though drinkers hunting for serious New World or Italian depth may find the bench thinner. What's here, though, is genuinely excellent — this list earned its Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence in 2024 and it shows.
With 20-35 pours running $15-$45, the by-the-glass program is one of the better reasons to sit at the bar here. Expect proper Champagne options among the pours — not just token bubbles, but real grower and house options that match the kitchen's celebratory energy. Rotation frequency is unclear, but the presence of five sommeliers on staff suggests someone is paying attention.
Billecart-Salmon Blanc de Blancs — $45 (glass estimate)
Billecart's Blanc de Blancs is a precision instrument — chalky, tense, and laser-focused — and it's one of the more fairly landed Champagnes on a list where prices can escalate fast. Order it by the glass before you commit to a bottle and you'll likely commit to a bottle.
Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet
Everyone comes here for the Champagne program and that's fair. But Leflaive's Puligny sitting quietly on this list is the move most tables miss — it's one of the benchmark white Burgundies in the world and it cuts through the richness of fried chicken and honey butter in a way bubbles can't quite replicate.
Dom Pérignon
Dom Pérignon is a great wine, but it's also the first thing a table orders when they want to signal something rather than taste something. At a restaurant with Salon Le Mesnil and Krug on the same list, defaulting to DP means paying a heavy brand premium when the same money takes you somewhere more interesting.
Krug Grande Cuvée + Korean fried chicken with caviar service
Salt, fat, richness, crunch — and Krug's toasty, complex, slow-oxidative depth meets all of it head-on. This is the pairing the restaurant is quietly designed around, and it's genuinely one of those combinations that makes the concept click.
The Bottom Line
COQODAQ is a Wild Card in the best possible sense — a fried chicken restaurant with a Champagne cellar that would embarrass most fine dining rooms. Send your friends here, tell them to skip the DP, and order the Krug with the caviar service.
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