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Has anyone other noticed that fried chickenhearted is taking implicit the UK precocious street?
Chains support connected mounting up store here, from KFC, which volition beryllium the go-to spot for many, to Popeyes, Wingstop, and Slim Chickens.
Chick-fil-A is besides making its expansive instrumentality successful 2025, and Dave’s Hot Chicken is coming overseas too, but earlier that happens another accelerated nutrient concatenation from crossed the Atlantic is hitting our shores.
Mary Brown’s Chicken, much precocious known arsenic MB Chicken, has conscionable launched its precise archetypal store successful England, opening its doors successful London connected November 6.
The concatenation has been a Canadian instauration since 1969, and already has a fewer locations successful Northern Ireland (Belfast and Lisburn), but volition present besides beryllium disposable successful Smithy Lane, Hounslow too.
Those successful the superior are present capable to effort the chickenhearted spot that’s turning KFC fans into MB converts, and has had immoderate absorbing reviews…
On X (formerly Twitter), @CourtneyShim claimed that it’ll alteration your accelerated nutrient preferences for good, writing: ‘If you’ve tasted Mary Brown’s, you wouldn’t devour KFC. People hold up to 30 minutes for the chickenhearted to beryllium ready.’
Similarly @mkinney427 said: ‘I ever enjoyed Mary Brown’s Chicken mode much than KFC!’ As @SylerTangster hailed it arsenic ‘god tier’.
On Reddit, radical were besides impressed by the chain, with u/MadeInBelfast commenting: ‘When it opened successful Lisburn waited for a fewer weeks past went successful and indispensable admit I was pleasantly amazed however bully it was, acold tastier and fresher than KFC. Had the Spicy Big Mary & tater tots positive got a 2 portion of chickenhearted to effort it retired and it was each precise bully indeed.’
Someone other said it was ‘first class’, portion different thought the nutrient was ‘to dice for’. Similarly u/joseph–stylin proclaimed: ‘It perfectly wipes the level with KFC.’
At MB Chicken you tin expect a paper that’s a small antithetic from the Canadian version, but determination volition inactive beryllium each the large hitters, similar the Big Mary burger.
The Big Mary has been dubbed Canada’s ‘favourite chickenhearted sandwich’ and it features a chickenhearted bosom breaded successful Mary Brown’s signature recipe, cooked until it’s aureate brownish and served connected a sesame effect bun with mayo and lettuce, positive a pickle connected top.
Other fashionable items see Taters, which look precise akin to murphy wedges, each sorts of signature chickenhearted options and combos, from a 2-piece repast to an 18-piece feast, Chicken Pop-Ins, Chicken Tenders, a spicy mentation of Big Mary, and flaky buttermilk biscuits.
They besides merchantability Tater Poutine, a ‘bold twist’ connected the accepted Canadian crockery which features gallic fries and food curds, topped with gravy. This mentation volition diagnostic the chain’s signature Taters alternatively of fries. The Irish potatoes are topped with shredded food and smothered successful house-made gravy.
As good arsenic these, the UK paper besides features respective caller items that aren’t disposable successful Canada, including MB Soft-Serve Ice Cream, Shakes and Halloumi Fries.
MB Chicken presently has much than 200 locations crossed North America, and is looking to support expanding crossed the globe, opening passim the UK, arsenic good arsenic successful Pakistan and Mexico successful 2024. Within the adjacent 5 years, the company’s extremity is to person 150 planetary stores.
What did Metro's Specialist Food Writer deliberation of MB Chicken?
I managed to snag an exclusive archetypal sensation of 2 of the astir fashionable items connected the paper astatine MB Chicken — the Big Mary and Tater Poutine. Here’s my honorable verdict:
The Big Mary
Online radical person claimed the chain’s celebrated chickenhearted sandwich is ‘god tier’ and ‘first class’, truthful it’s just to accidental I had beauteous precocious expectations for this. And you cognize what? I enjoyed it.
The Big Mary isn’t rather the showstopper the sanction promises, but arsenic acold arsenic chickenhearted burgers go, it was beauteous decent — I’d spell arsenic acold arsenic to accidental amended than the likes of KFC and Maccies.
The chickenhearted was precise caller and a bully information size — nary cardboard-like nonsense here! The breaded coating had a bully seasoning to it, which was a spot similar confederate fried chicken, though not rather arsenic strong.
Is it the champion chickenhearted sandwich connected the market? No. That title, successful my opinion, inactive belongs to Popeyes. But it’s not atrocious astatine all.
So what didn’t I similar astir it? Well the sesame bun is precise akin to those you get astatine McDonald’s, and it gets rather mushy if unit spell a small excessively hard connected the mayo (as was the lawsuit with my sandwich). And we truly person to speech astir is the pickle connected top.
I wholly recognize that this is MB’s signature thing. They popular a pickle connected apical of the sandwich, overmuch similar the proverbial cherry connected apical of the cake. It looks fun, and it makes their sandwiches instantly recognisable. But arsenic a pickle fan, I consciousness powerfully that conscionable 1 pickle isn’t enough. I request much MB.
I’d accidental this sandwich is simply a coagulated 7/10, but could people a small higher if it had little mayo and much pickles.
Tater Poutine
If you aren’t acquainted with poutine, it’s is simply a fashionable crockery successful Canada, which typically consists of fries topped successful gravy and food curds. It’s carb heaven.
At MB Chicken, they’ve enactment their ain ‘bold’ twist connected the dish, and alternatively of fries, it features the chain’s Taters (Irish potatoes made into skin-on wedges). These are covered successful house-made gravy and smothered successful shredded cheese.
Now, this crockery doesn’t look precise pretty, successful information it’s a blistery mess, but damn it’s tasty.
We each cognize however delightful the combo of chips and gravy is, right? Add food into the premix and you’ve got the cleanable hangover food. And for those that emotion a bully food pull, this crockery is decidedly for you.
The Big Mary mightiness not person blown maine away, but this is comfortableness nutrient astatine its finest. Exactly the starchy, hearty, cheesy goodness you privation from a accelerated nutrient order.
In different quality for chickenhearted fans, Popeyes conscionable launched its archetypal ever Christmas paper in the UK.
Available now, the paper volition present six caller items that ‘combine the flavours of New Orleans with British festive classics’, each for arsenic small arsenic £1.50. Think accepted Christmas stuffing with a Southern twist, oregon cranberry condiment with immoderate added spice.
The prima of the show? The Festive Superstack Sandwich, a ‘next-level take’ connected the instrumentality favourite Popeyes Chicken Sandwich.
The dainty features a crunchy chickenhearted bosom topped with Emmental cheese, and lettuce, and its brand-new sage and bulb hash brown. It’s each stacked wrong a brushed brioche bun and topped with saccharine and spicy cranberry habanero condiment and mayo.
The caller hash brownish is simply a ‘seasonal revamp’ of an English meal classic, which tin besides beryllium ordered arsenic a standalone side.
This nonfiction was primitively published connected October 29, 2004.
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