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Best Fried Chicken in London

Crunchy, juicy and properly seasoned: the best fried chicken in London.

Starting order is based on how often each place appears in London's major guides. Your upvotes move places up.

  1. 1Elephant and Castle · Multiple locationsKorean fried chicken star whose honey butter-dusted chicken tops multiple lists; now in Elephant and Castle with a Soho outpost.
  2. 2Leicester Square · 14 Little Newport Street, WC2H 7JJChinatown's Taiwanese night-market-style shop, double-fried and seasoned; the queue for its popcorn chicken moves fast.
  3. 3Brixton · Multiple locationsSouth London's cult chicken shop chain since 1985, loved for cheap, consistently crisp wings and burgers.
  4. 4New Malden · Multiple locationsFamily-run Korean spot where double-fried, glossily glazed chicken comes with beer and soju.
  5. 5Elephant and Castle · 147 Eagle Yard Arch, Walworth Road, SE1 6SPColombian cafe serving overnight-brined pica pollo with a garlicky, lemony house seasoning.
  6. 6Finsbury Park · 264 Seven Sisters Road, N4 2HYLong-loved north London chicken shop that found wider fame through the Chicken Shop Connoisseur.
  7. 7Soho · Multiple locationsKeralan fried chicken marinated in tandoori spices, served crisp and grease-free with curry-leaf mayo.
  8. 8Tottenham · 755 High Road, N17 8AHTottenham chicken shop that wins places on both The Infatuation's and Secret London's best-of lists.
  9. 9Soho · Multiple locationsAffordable modern chicken shop mixing buffalo, Korean and Nashville flavours in burgers and wings.
  10. 10Shoreditch · 64 Shoreditch High Street, E1 6JJThai-inspired Shoreditch favourite whose fried chicken wings feature on several best-of lists.

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