Man, I love chicken; whether it’s boiled, roasted, fried, or cooked any other way, I’m all about it!
Since changing jobs and moving to a new workplace recently, this place has become a regular haunt of mine. The staff are friendly, the food is tasty and – most importantly – the drinks are refillable!
My usual go-to meal consists of chicken tenders, fries, dipping sauce, and Texas toast (buttered and fried bread similar to a British fried slice but less greasy). They also offer burgers, wings, and combo meals (wings and tenders).
5 x 5 Meal – The best way to eat is to rip segments of Texas toast and wrap it around chunks of chicken tenders before dipping into the sauce.
Currently, there’s a total of 12 available sauces. The buffalo, Korean BBQ and mango habanero are the three I would recommend: they have the right balance of sweet, savoury, and spicy. In theory, as an avid cheese lover, the blue cheese should be one of my favourites, but I just found it a little too salty for my taste.
The restaurant also recently launched a new burger – the ‘Korean Sandwich’ – which consists of a fried chicken burger topped with Korean BBQ sauce and a kimchee slaw. I haven’t tried it yet, b to me it seems like an example of yet another food establishment jumping onto the Korean food bandwagon, although it does make sense in this context – fried chicken is renowned and revered in South Korea.
Overall, this is a great place for a fried chicken fan to grab a satisfying, quick bite – especially after a long day browsing through the nearby Selfridges.
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Location – 31 JAMES STREET, LONDON, W1U 1EA
Website – https://www.slimchickens.co.uk/