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The fried chicken at Adsum. (Photo courtesy Adsum)

Whether it’s a plate of authentic buttermilk-battered fried chicken with collard greens or a high-end restaurant’s take on Korean fried chicken, these down-home eats are sure to appease your comfort-food cravings.

Here are just a few places to pick up some finder-lickin’ dishes across the Philadelphia region:

• The retro, rec-room vibe at Jones complements the kitchen’s comfort eats — and the fried chicken served over waffles with gravy is the stuff that homey dreams are made of.

• At the upscale soul-foodery Ms. Tootsie’s Restaurant Bar Lounge on South Street, mac and cheese, tropical sweet tea and sweet potato cheesecake serve as the perfect accompaniments to the crispy, perfectly seasoned fried chicken.

• Chef Matthew Levin stated that he simply wanted to make fried chicken “as good as Popeye’s” prior to opening Adsum this summer. By all accounts he has succeeded and then some… Rick Nichols declared the fried chicken at Adsum is the best in the city.

• Despite its craft beer bar ideals and family-friendly sensibilities, the Grays Ferry neighborhood corner bistro Resurrection Ale House has already won glossy magazine mentions for its honey-drizzled, twice-fried thighs. In June, Bon Appétit rated Resurrection as one of the Top 10 Places for Fried Chicken in the country.

• Chef David Katz gets out the deep-fryer at Mémé on Thursdays, when the lunch special includes fried chicken, a biscuit and a beer (or lemonade or iced tea) for $11.

• Korean fried chicken — salty, sweet, spicy and double-fried to joyful crispness — is in a category of its own, and unassuming hangout Café Soho serves a winning basket of these addictive wings, to be washed down with pickled daikon and icy glasses of soju. 468 W. Cheltenham Avenue, (215) 224-6800

• The signature “broasted” birds at Speck’s Drive-In remain a Collegeville legend. Shatteringly crunchy pressure-fried breasts are embellished by homemade potato salad, fries and/or coleslaw — not to mention thick black and white milkshakes. 3969 Ridge Pike, Collegeville, (610) 489-2110

• Korean fried chicken gets a swanky upgrade at Meritage on Thursdays, where a $25 dinner for two yields six pieces, ’slaw, pickled vegetables and sesame spinach, plus a can of Sapporo beer.