Chick n Sours, in Covent Garden (and originally Stoke Newington) is hands down my favourite place to go for fried chicken in London. Top quality meat from free range, happy chickens is juicy and crunchy and doused in spicy, tangy vinegar based sauces, and served with pickles and watermelon and smacked cucumbers. Heaven. So imagine my joy to find out that the geniuses behind Chick n Sours, Carl and David, had a new trick up their a sleeves. A fast food joint, serving burgers, wings, chips doused in melty cheese, spicy slaws, lettuce covered in blue cheese and all the other delicious bits and bobs, a mere 10 minutes bus ride from my flat..... uh oh!
Chik'n is just as I said - fast food, but the very best version of fast food you can possibly imagine. Higher welfare chicken is fried in rapeseed oil (no trans fat and lots of Omega 3 = as healthy as you can get when it comes to deep frying), which is all recycled after being used for frying. In fact, the whole restaurant is run super responsibly, with staff on proper wages, care of duty when sourcing ingredients and getting rid of rubbish, and prices start at £4.95 for the straight up chicken burger (which comes with lettuce, buttermilk and herb mayo, and pickles). And I can't be the only one who thinks these are all good things - there's been a queue pouring out the door every time I've gone past, but the queue moves quickly, so don't let that put you off!
Over a couple of visits I've now worked my way through the majority of the menu. The Chik'n Tiki Sandwich, with hot sauce, buttermilk mayo, pineapple, bacon and cheese is amazing. It's all the things a chicken burger should be - so juicy and zingy, with good crunch and all held together by a burger that stands up to its contents. Then there are the burger options with some or various of the components of the Tiki, plus extras, my favourite being the Chik'n Hot - Sriracha sour cream, lettuce and spicy slaw.
As well as burgers there are Chik'n Tenders and Clusters, and Chik'n Wings, that come naked, hot or finger licking sticky. Get them all!
And then the chips... and dips. There are fries, Nacho style all in - with Szechuan Chik'n chilli, nacho cheese, pink pickled onions and bacon bits, and a veggie version of the same. Order one of each of the dips (20p each) and you can choose from blue cheese sauce, hot sauce, sriarcha sour cream, buttermilk and herb mayo, and BBQ sauce - they're all delicious.
Chik'n really does offer something new to the food scene, serving up the best quality, best cooked fried chicken, for ridiculously good value. Let's just hope the rumours that this is the first of many Chik'n sites are true!!
Chik'n is just as I said - fast food, but the very best version of fast food you can possibly imagine. Higher welfare chicken is fried in rapeseed oil (no trans fat and lots of Omega 3 = as healthy as you can get when it comes to deep frying), which is all recycled after being used for frying. In fact, the whole restaurant is run super responsibly, with staff on proper wages, care of duty when sourcing ingredients and getting rid of rubbish, and prices start at £4.95 for the straight up chicken burger (which comes with lettuce, buttermilk and herb mayo, and pickles). And I can't be the only one who thinks these are all good things - there's been a queue pouring out the door every time I've gone past, but the queue moves quickly, so don't let that put you off!
Over a couple of visits I've now worked my way through the majority of the menu. The Chik'n Tiki Sandwich, with hot sauce, buttermilk mayo, pineapple, bacon and cheese is amazing. It's all the things a chicken burger should be - so juicy and zingy, with good crunch and all held together by a burger that stands up to its contents. Then there are the burger options with some or various of the components of the Tiki, plus extras, my favourite being the Chik'n Hot - Sriracha sour cream, lettuce and spicy slaw.
As well as burgers there are Chik'n Tenders and Clusters, and Chik'n Wings, that come naked, hot or finger licking sticky. Get them all!
And then the chips... and dips. There are fries, Nacho style all in - with Szechuan Chik'n chilli, nacho cheese, pink pickled onions and bacon bits, and a veggie version of the same. Order one of each of the dips (20p each) and you can choose from blue cheese sauce, hot sauce, sriarcha sour cream, buttermilk and herb mayo, and BBQ sauce - they're all delicious.
Chik'n really does offer something new to the food scene, serving up the best quality, best cooked fried chicken, for ridiculously good value. Let's just hope the rumours that this is the first of many Chik'n sites are true!!
Looks fantastic x
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