US favourite Dave's Hot Chicken reveals menu for first London restaurant

Already fashionable successful the US, Dave’s Hot Chicken has announced the authoritative opening day for its archetypal London restaurant.

The concatenation is expanding to the UK with a caller determination astatine 40 Shaftesbury Avenue, and the caller subdivision volition unfastened connected Saturday, December 7 astatine 12pm. Delivery volition beryllium disposable from January 2025.

Customers volition beryllium fixed six antithetic spice levels to take from, though Dave’s is yet to determine if its infamous Reaper slider volition beryllium disposable successful the UK. Although the slider has been tested connected 5 Brits – leaving 1 idiosyncratic successful tears – it’s yet to beryllium confirmed whether the point volition beryllium connected the London menu.

“After conducting sensation tests present successful the UK, we recovered the Reaper to beryllium truthful blistery that it near participants crying from the sheer vigor of the spice mix,” said Jim Attwood, Managing Director of Dave’s Hot Chicken UK.

He added: “We are inactive successful discussions arsenic to whether the Reaper volition marque it onto UK plates. Of course, if the federation genuinely wants to trial the hottest chickenhearted successful the world, we could beryllium convinced…”

The spice levels Londoners volition beryllium capable to chose from are No Spice, Lite Mild, Mild, Medium, Hot, and Extra Hot.

Dave’s Shaftesbury Avenue subdivision volition unfastened astatine 11am regular and adjacent astatine 10pm connected Sundays, 11pm Monday to Wednesday, and astatine midnight from Thursday to Saturday.

Hailing from an East Hollywood carpark, Dave’s Hot Chicken was founded by 3 puerility friends, Dave Kopushyan, Arman Oganesyan and Tommy Rubenyan, backmost successful 2017.

It’s gained immoderate personage fans implicit the years, including Drake, Samuel L. Jackson and Usher, and has opened 200 locations crossed the US.

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 acceptable up store successful 1 of the astir iconic cities successful the world, we’ve travel a agelong mode – and we’re lone getting started.

He continued: “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.

“We’re not conscionable bringing the vigor – we’re bringing the afloat Dave’s acquisition implicit for Brits. This opening marks the archetypal successful our program to unfastened up to 60 restaurants crossed some the UK & Ireland successful the coming years.”