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A US accelerated food chain is coming successful hot… rather literally. Dave’s Hot Chicken is mounting up store successful the UK and they’re bringing the spice.

The cult American brand, backed by Drake and Samuel L. Jackson, is acceptable to unfastened its precise archetypal UK edifice successful London’s Shaftesbury Avenue connected December 7, and Metro tin exclusively uncover what customers volition spot connected the paper erstwhile it opens its doors. 

Dave’s is bringing a fig of the US favourites implicit to the UK for its launch, with prices starting from £8.

Interestingly, determination are conscionable 2 main chickenhearted items connected the paper — tenders and sliders (sandwiches) — which the concatenation says are made utilizing integrated and halal certified British chicken. 

To brace with your chicken, determination volition beryllium a scope of sides disposable including fries, pickles, and slaw, and you tin besides bid combinations of these to marque for a bigger meal, with 4 combo options to take form.

Customers tin besides personalise their bid by selecting a spice level for the dish, with six antithetic levels to take from: No Spice, Lite Mild, Mild, Medium, Hot, and Extra Hot.

Dave’s successful the US besides has a seventh spice level: The Reaper. This is truthful blistery that anyone who dares to effort it has to motion a waiver earlier they’re allowed to tuck into their food. Yes, really.

However, the concatenation hasn’t yet decided whether oregon not to bring the infamous situation to the UK, aft conducting a not-so palmy sensation trial with 5 Brits that near immoderate successful tears and 1 moving retired of the country aft conscionable 1 bite.

Alongside the food, determination volition beryllium brushed drinks specified arsenic Coca-Cola, Fanta, and Sprite, oregon those feeling the vigor tin chill disconnected with an indulgent top-loaded shingle for £4.49. Flavours see chocolate, vanilla oregon strawberry and these tin beryllium topped with Oreo oregon M&Ms.

Fans online person praised the food, with users connected X (formerly Twitter) hailing it arsenic ‘unreal’, ‘insane’, ‘amazing’ and a 10/10.

@steakshapiro posted: ‘Just recovered the astir insane chickenhearted sandwich. I had heard rumours astir it. Can’t adjacent judge it. Dave’s Hot Chicken. UNREAL!!’ While @RevCiancio said: ‘Dave’s Hot Chicken has immoderate of the champion blistery chickenhearted fingers and sandwiches ever. They are ace tasty, other crispy and highly spicy.’ 

And @vveoko was speedy to proclaim it the ‘best accelerated nutrient chickenhearted retired there’, saying: ‘There’s nary competition, fries are besides hella good.’

Dave’s Hot Chicken was founded successful East Hollywood backmost successful 2017, erstwhile 4 friends who loved chickenhearted tenders scraped unneurotic capable wealth ($900) to bargain a fryer and motorboat a pop-up concern successful a car park. 

They began serving Nashville-style blistery chickenhearted and soon radical were flocking to get a taste, with Drake, Samuel L. Jackson, and Usher each being counted amongst the brand’s biggest fans, and investing successful the company. 

The concern was precocious named America’s Fastest increasing Restaurant chain, arsenic it present has 200 restaurants crossed America.

The concatenation signed an statement with Azzurri Group successful the UK to unfastened 60 sites crossed the country. Azzurri presently operates respective large sanction brands successful the UK, including Zizzi, ASK Italian, Coco di Mama, and Boojum.

Outside of the archetypal London restaurant, the afloat database of Dave’s locations haven’t been confirmed yet. 

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Ahead of the UK launch, Bill Phelps, CEO of Dave’s Hot Chicken, said: ‘From frying blistery chickenhearted successful an LA parking batch with thing but $900 and a imagination to mounting up store successful 1 of the astir iconic cities successful the world, we’ve travel a agelong mode – and we’re lone getting started.

‘We’ve worked tirelessly with our UK squad to present the bold flavours and tongue-tingling spice that person made america a cult sensation present successful the USA. And we’re not conscionable bringing the vigor – we’re bringing the afloat Dave’s acquisition to the Brits. This opening marks the archetypal successful our program to unfastened up to 60 restaurants crossed some the UK & Ireland successful the coming years.’

Jim Attwood, Managing Director of Azzurri Group, added: ‘We’re excited to bring the hugely fashionable Dave’s Hot Chicken to London and arrogant to beryllium the franchise spouse introducing this bold, spicy marque to the UK. Londoners are successful for a dainty being the archetypal to acquisition Dave’s signature vigor and unsocial flavours, which person rightfully built a monolithic fanbase successful the US. We can’t hold for radical present to acquisition firsthand what makes Dave’s Hot Chicken truthful special.’

Dave’s Hot Chicken opens astatine 40 Shaftesbury Avenue successful London connected Saturday, December 7 from 12pm. Opening hours volition alteration passim the week. 

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