Eat Out London!Chick 'n' Sours
A whimsical menu of herb fed fried chicken, next level sides, sour cocktails, local beers & cracking soft serve ice cream creations.
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Chick ‘n’ Sours opened in Dalston in 2015 and offers the very best that fried chicken can be, alongside a small but perfectly formed list of sour cocktails.
Opened in April 2015 by two guys who (fun fact) conceived the idea when they met at Latitude in 2010, Chick ‘n’ Sours offers the very best that fried chicken can be, alongside a small but perfectly formed list of sour cocktails from a Milk & Honey mixologist no less.
sour cocktails are to chicken “like vinegar to chips.”
The menu at Chick n Sours is pretty neat and compact: just three appetisers, four mains, a few side orders and five sour cocktails.
As well as the food and the cocktails being delicious, Chick ‘n’ Sours is also a very cool place.
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It’s around a year and a half since serial popper-upper Carl Clarke launched the original Chick ‘n’ Sours in Dalston with friend and collaborator David Wolanski and ex-Milk & Honey cocktail man Sam Dunne.
The concept was simple: fried chicken, sour cocktails and a few sides — a restaurant that does exactly what it says on the tin.
The sour drinks are to fried chicken what vinegar is to chips, says Clarke — and he’s not wrong.
The house sour at the new site is the Chick ‘n’ Club #2, which combines gin, blackberry, apple, vermouth and vinegar itself.
Final flavour: When it comes to chicken, Chick ‘n’ Sours is top of the pecking order.
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You know you’re dining in springtime Dalston when you’re eating bespoke chicken within sight of vests exposing armpit hair and jeans so tight you can see the wearer’s mild arousal.
At Chick ’n’ Sours — pop-up pioneer Carl Clarke’s new Dalston chicken shack — the males sitting at the bench beside me complained bitterly about the ghastly election while simultaneously planning three holidays: Sardinia, Croatia and a boys-only jolly to Berlin.
Young Dalston women (usually called Harriet), wearing Barrecore pants, hobble from Columbia Road carrying aspidistra plants with their very thin arms.
But before you leave, perhaps give Chick ’n’ Sours a try.
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Walking to Chick’n’Sours, I pass two of the new breed of fried chicken joints: it seems we can’t get enough of poncified fast food.
Forget subtlety, this is food that biffs and pows, makes you gasp and grin: the outrageously crisp chicken, the electrifying pineapple, the nachos.
Oh, man, the “Mexi-Nese” nachos: I thought I was way too grown up to order such teenage pothead favourites, but these – freshly fried corn chips, a ragù made from chicken, fermented chilli paste and smoked bacon, lashings of pickled jalapeños, kimchi and a gloriously plasticky cheese sauce with a touch of anchovy – these are adult enough to come with a triple-X certificate.
As towering in height as Chick’n’Sours’ trademark K-Pop (a Korean-style bun), it’s deceptively soothing with its iceberg lettuce laced with buttermilk and herb mayo, and fried thigh boosted with sticky cheese and pickles.
We’re told that, by frying the birds in low trans-fat rapeseed oil with its high burning point, Chick’n’Sours’ chicken is 30% less fatty than its trashy counterparts.
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If there’s a god of fried chicken, Chick ’n’ Sours is His greatest gift.
Born into a city awash with chicken shops in 2015, the first, Dalston-based branch of this restaurant ruffled all the right feathers with their cocktails and game-changing KFC (that’s Korean Fried Chicken, but you knew that).
By the time I’d tasted my first sour – fruity, sharp and packing a powerful tequila punch – I was pretty much ready to go out.
Chef and owner Carl Clarke double-fries his birds in rapeseed oil like the Koreans do, to achieve a properly luxurious crunch without any of the oiliness of a late-night Chicken Cottage binge.
What really made this bird sing, though, was its acidity: the bun is dressed with gochujang (an umami-tastic red chilli paste) mayo on the one side, fiery sriracha on the other, and cut through with kimchi, chilli vinegar and sour Asian slaw.