Share Yardbird's crispy chicken biscuit sandwich, one of many fried chicken dishes on the menu. Photography courtesy of Yardbird Miami-based Yardbird Southern Table & Bar is finally ready to make its DC debut on April 1. The restaurant, whose famed fried chicken has earned James Beard nods and lines out the door at the South Beach flagship, takes over the former Acadiana space in Mt. Vernon Triangle. It will be the sixth Yardbird globally, and first in the Mid-Atlantic, joining locations in Dallas, Los Angeles, and Singapore. Mac n’ cheese comes with five cheese and a whole lobster. Photograph courtesy Yardbird. Founder John Kunkel, a Georgia native whose grandmother Lewellyn is responsible for the 27-hour brined fried chicken recipe, opened the original Yardbird a decade ago. At the time, cheffy Southern fare was on the cusp of becoming the trendy cuisine du jour, riding in on a wave of dishcloth napkins and mason jar cocktails. “There was a restaurant called Buttermilk Channel in Williamsburg,” says Kunkel. “I remember thinking, if they’re doing Southern food in Brooklyn now, clearly there’s a trend.” He was somewhat skeptical about the Miami crowd: “You’re in the land of sushi and Red Bull vodkas, no one’s going to eat that stuff.” But they did, and do.