Martin Street Chargrill Chicken — Restaurant in Melbourne

Hello, this is Jacsen from the bureau of Melbourne charcoal chicken testing and reviews. My purpose is to find the best charcoal chicken shop in Melbourne. Today, I went to Martin street chargrill chicken. My Order was - 1/2 chicken & chips, medium gravy, small mac and cheese, 1 potato cake. As always, I’m going to give a fair and honest 1-10 rating on each item, along with a brief description on the item itself.

Starting off with the chicken - skin abit flavourless.. although good crunch, breast was dry but around the leg region the chicken was moist and flavourful, stuffing also nice - I’m gonna give the chicken a 5/10

Chips - requires more salt, good crunch 5/10

Potato cake - good crunch, good salt, all round delicious 8/10

Mac and cheese- nice string to the cheese, good flavour throughout although could do with a thicker sauce 5/10

Gravy- gravy was quite runny, strong taste of onion 3/10

Overall I’m going to give the entire meal a rating of 6.5 out of 10. Thank you for your...

Setting aside the actual food, I write this as a concerned customer.

My partner and I came into the store tonight (approximately 6pm Sunday 15th August) and were both shocked and genuinely concerned about the welfare of the staff. An individual that I can only assume was the manager, spoke to his two other staff (one of which I would pick as between 15 - 17) in a manner that was a mixture of loud, aggressive, intimidating and degrading.

To whomever this concerns, I would just like you to know that as a customer I felt incredibly uncomfortable and sorry for the staff targeted and out of principle will not be returning to the establishment.

I hope you get an opportunity to re assess the way you treat young people in the work force. As stressful as it is to run a small business in these times, think of the stress you are...

I just personally think $18 ($17.79 incase I’m corrected) for a chicken wrap is ridiculous. Don’t think I’m not aware of rent/wages etc but for size portions I’d rather go somewhere else. No hate just observation. Also as someone who works in medical field I saw a comment about a guy getting food he was allergic to in his order, your response shouldn’t be “training new people” first thing they should know is separating food preparation stations eg no nuts near other food and meat in own spot. People come into my ED not being able to breathe after licking a nut. No excuses just do better for people like the uncomfortable...