Fried chicken under a railway bridge in Shoreditch? We know what you’re thinking, but BIRD doesn’t try too hard to be hip according to our 2015 survey. Next week readers can enjoy 50% off the diner’s new lunch menu, available Monday-Friday 12-5pm from 20 April. There will be new dishes on the menu, including the Fried Chicken Biscuit […]

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The Editors’ review of Bird We ‘get’ bird in Shoreditch   Grace Dent reviews Blanchette The woman who loves a good bistro, but doesn’t like to share   City Social opens at Tower 42 Jason Atherton’s new restaurant has star quality (in the form of Benedict Cumberbatch)   The Standard’s Fay Maschler has a busy week First […]

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No sooner have we noted Londoners’ love affair with chicken, than another poultry place arrives on the scene. Bird, now open in Shoreditch, is billing itself as a ‘free range, fried chicken’ restaurant which takes inspiration from across the Pond, but this is, say the founders, a ‘distinctly British’, London version of local community restaurants found in Brooklyn […]

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