Here’s why chicken is still flying

What do these restaurants have in common: Selekt Chicken, Chicos, Chicken Valley, Wonder Bird, The Chicken Shop, Slim Chickens, Wingstop, KFC x 2, Pepe’s Piri Piri, Nando’s, Dixy Fried Chicken and Chesters? They are all pretty much located in one high street, a few minutes’ walk from my house in north London. This is ridiculous,…

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Rise of the silver servers

When the shuttered Four Sisters pub reopened as The Pocket in Islington with an expansive beer list, I made the short tube trip south for a visit during its opening week. During this early evening jaunt when the pub was particularly quiet, I enquired how things were going to the couple of 20-something’s serving behind…

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The battle for breakfast

Breakfast at Maison Francois in London’s St James, just around the corner from Fortnum & Mason, was not the quiet affair I was expecting as the room was packed at 8.30am on a Tuesday morning, with upbeat hedge fund types enjoying the likes of eggs benedict at £14, or a punchy £24 for both sides…

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