Chicken

• Lebanese rotisserie restaurant Toum and its basement listening bar are coming to Mayfair

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  Lebanese restaurant Aline was originally opened by Tarek Farah and his wife Monika back in 2016 and over eight years, it built a loyal clientele for its traditional Lebanese dishes. Now, three doors down from Aline, the pair are about to kick things up a notch with a more contemporary offering - the new Lebanese rotisserie Toum.

  Toum, they told Hot Dinners, "is more of a modern

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• Holborn's the spot for a new yakitori 'beak to tail' restaurant Hotori

  

  Lawyers and other city folk working in and around Holborn are about to have an interesting new place landing on their doorstep. Hotori is a slick-looking yakitori restaurant on New Fetter Lane that's going to be all about the 'beak to tail' experience. Owners Mike Zheng and Kuangyi Wei have loved their trips to yakitori spots in Japan, but couldn't understand why there weren't more options here in London, particularly

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• Test Driving the Mr Lyan and Bébé Bob team-up - cocktails, caviar, doughnuts and schnuggets

  

  There's a new menu at Bébé Bob where they've brought in Mr Lyan on cocktail duty alongside some very fancy bar snacks. We took a seat at the counter to test them out.

• Sharing is caring - the London restaurants with whole chickens on the menu

   

  Whether you fancy it deep-fried, roasted with truffles or hot and spicy, a whole chicken is the perfect sharing dish when going out with friends. Here's our pick of the best that London restaurants have on the menu.

• Fowl sees the Fallow team launching a pop up chicken shop

  

  We've heard murmurings of something new coming from Fallow but while we wait to hear about that, they've a new offshoot that's almost next door to their St James restaurant.

  Inside St James's Market, they've taken over what was The Beau Brummell, a relatively short-lived pub from Cubitt House. The pop up is called Fowl, and is promising to be a "chicken shop like no other" and in keeping with their

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• Solis sees the TATA Eatery team bring a chicken and steak grill to Arcade Battersea

   

  Just coming off a recent residency at The Sea, The Sea, TATA Eatery's Ana Gonçalves and Zijun Meng are planning their next big thing, Solis, which is opening in the new Arcade food hall in Battersea. 

  Solis is being billed primarily as a chicken and steak grill, but one with a difference, taking specific influences from Spain,

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• Morley's, The Standard and Heinz team up for a King's Cross chicken shop with added caviar

  

  The fried chicken behemoth that is Morley's (which just opened its 100th store) is trying something a little bit different - a team-up with The Standard hotel and Heinz. 

  They're launching a one-month chicken shop pop-up, taking over Double Standard on the ground floor and terrace of the King's Cross hotel (although there will be takeaway too, just

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• Sides by Sidemen bring their fried chicken to Wandsworth

  

  They've been huge hits wherever they landed, first as delivery only and then in Wembley's Boxpark and now The Sidemen are back again with a new Sides, this time heading south to Wandsworth. 

  This time, the YouTubers are opening in Gravity Southside in

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• Popeyes open their second London restaurant in Ealing

  

  There were huge queues when Popeyes opened its first restaurant in Stratford, and that was just a concession in Westfield. Other than popping up for delivery-only dark kitchens across town, they hadn't opened any new restaurants in London - until now. They've gone to the opposite side of town to open in Ealing - something that will actually be their first standalone restaurant in

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• Other Side Fried are coming to Battersea

  

  Masters of fried chicken burgers, Other Side Fried, are getting ready to open another restaurant, following up on their Brixton success. 

  This time they're coming to Battersea, with a restaurant that'll seat nearly 40 inside, and as for the popular burgers, you can expect:

  • Buffalo - fried chicken, ranch sauce, hot sauce, pickles, lettuce
  • Garlic Butter Mayo, fried chicken,
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• The Roost and their rotisserie chickens come to perch in Finsbury Park

  

  A Hot Dinners exclusive

  During lockdown, residents of Highbury and Finsbury Park were sustained in part by a local business, The Roost, serving up superlative rotisserie chicken deliveries. The business has been going great guns since then and, next month, will open its first proper restaurant in Finsbury Park.

  Taking over the old Exquisite site, they're going to be serving up their brined, rubbed

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• Tinie Tempah brings RAPS fried chicken to the John Lewis rooftop

  

  The latest celeb to get into the food game is rapper Tinie Tempah. While you may immediately think "it's going to be something to do with tempeh, isn't it?" it is, in fact, a new fried chicken venture called RAPS (we see what he did there). 

  It's in two parts - delivery and a pop-up at the John Lewis rooftop space Willows on The Roof. He's teamed up with chef Big Has for

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• The Sidemen bring Sides to Boxpark Wembley

  

  Huge on YouTube, The Sidemen (which is a team of KSI, Miniminter, Zerkaa, TBJZL, Behzinga, Vikkstar123 and W2S, all big individually on YouTube too) are also pretty big in the food delivery game having launched Sides as a delivery-only virtual chicken restaurant late last

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• Marsha chicken restaurant is coming to Kingly Court

   

  We've discovered news of Marsha, a chicken restaurant that's on the way to Kingly Court. It seems to be taking over from the previous chicken restaurant, Whyte and Brown (and may also be from the same people). It's not the first Marsha restaurant either - they opened relatively quietly in Gabriel's Wharf back in April last year. Apparently, their produce is all free-range and comes from Yorkshire farm

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• Popeye's chicken comes to London, at Westfield Stratford (and they're adding a vegan burger)

  

  3/11 - Updated with the opening date and details about the menu

  Given Five Guys' fairly massive rollout across the UK. it was only a matter of time before more US chains started heading this way. We already have had the return of Wendy's, and joining them soon will be American

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