Chick 'n' Sours Reviews Summary

Category: Chicken restaurant London

Address: 1A Earlham St, London, WC2H 9LL, United Kingdom

Phone: +442031984814

Rating: 4.3
based on 297 reviews.

Service

Pros:

  • "The staff and service is good. Speed of serving is pretty quick too."
  • "Service great and staff very friendly."
  • "Staff are very friendly and attentive."
  • "Service was quick."
  • "Great staff that gave us great service."
  • "Service was great overall."
  • "Absolutely fantastic service!"

Cons:

  • "Whilst we were stood there one waitress had an altercation with one of the chefs."
  • "Service was lack at best, not very professional, staff were just hanging out at the side chatting not really paying attention to the customers."
  • "Experience-wise, the wait was far too long. We had reserved and still needed to wait first at the door for 10 minutes and then another 30 or more at the bar."
  • "Staff could be more attentive, waiting around to be seated when there's plenty of seats and for the bill at the end is not ideal."
  • "Service is friendly but slow ie getting drinks and getting your bill."
  • "Service was awful. Never asked whether the meal was good or whether everything was OK."
  • "Service is highly disappointing, we asked for the bill almost 3 times."

Food Quality

Pros:

  • "The food pushed the experience over the top. The disco wings (especially the Kung Pao) are amazing."
  • "Great quality fried chicken for fair prices."
  • "The chicken is indeed very nice."
  • "Hands down the best fried chicken ever."
  • "The food is excellent. Chicken in a host of imaginative and tasty ways."
  • "The szechuan aubergine was very tasty."
  • "Food is delicious."

Cons:

  • "The Katsu curry portion was very small considering the price for it."
  • "That cost us £45 with no drinks which is fair but the quality and taste of the food wasn’t the greatest."
  • "Over complicated flavours drown out the flavour of the chicken though, which defeats the object for me."
  • "The chips were nothing special, just oily chips."
  • "The food is very middling and overpriced for what it is."
  • "However, the drum stick and thigh had too thick and a bit over-cooked skin compared to the meat content."
  • "One of the chicken wings dishes we ordered had a really pungent, sour sauce on the top."

Atmosphere

Pros:

  • "A really nice family friendly place."
  • "Friendly retro 80's vibe with deliberately mismatched vintage crockery."
  • "The atmosphere too is loud and fun, with lots of group tables, staff joking with one another and an excellent playlist."
  • "The 80's inspired interior design and great sound tracks makes you feel home right from the beginning!"
  • "The basement setting brings a wicked vibe and the whole dining room has busy bustle to it!"
  • "The vibes are cool."
  • "The ambience is nice and they do a good job of somehow making it feel quite intimate even in the tight space."

Cons:

  • "The only thing is the restaurant is a little small and I found it cold."
  • "But I think the place has got a bit of an identity crisis - it’s sort of a mash up of loads of different interior-design trends, all in one place."
  • "The music was quite loud."
  • "You may have the feeling you are in a strip club more than a restaurant."
  • "The atmosphere was unpleasant with the extreme noise of the waitress cleaning the forks & spoons!"
  • "The atmosphere is very loud (full house for a weekday dinner), so we got tired of trying to keep up conversations at some point and left for a quieter location."
  • "Right next to the sink, there was a big candle that had three candles lit, next to a bottle of hand sanitiser!!!! Huge fire hazard."

Value

Pros:

  • "For £5 their take-away lunch deals are difficult to be beaten on value too."
  • "The set menu for £20 pp is sensational. Sensational quality and sensational value."
  • "The prices are reasonable."
  • "Comes with 2 sides so worth the money."
  • "Amazing value for money and extremely good chicken!"
  • "The pricing was very reasonable."
  • "All of that came to £25 each which I feel is excellent value."

Cons:

  • "It’s really expensive for fried chicken that is good, but not worth the cost."
  • "Pretty underwhelming... it wasn’t worth the £50 we paid for burgers n chips."
  • "Price wise it's not good value for money compared to other restaurants in the seven dial's area."
  • "These lower quality cuts might be branded as 'tastier', but they're still cheaper cuts of meat and that should reflect in the price - which I'm afraid it doesn't."
  • "For 4 people it came to about £110, which this place ain't worth it for."
  • "Very expensive for the quality."
  • "Price per head was high for the quality received."

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