Chicken V Sydney — Restaurant in Sydney

(3.5 stars) Chimaek is a Korean term for fried chicken (chikin) and beer (maekju). It’s the kind of pairing that makes you yearn for days when Sydney had a thriving late-night scene and you could pull up at a spot like Chicken V for a post-club feed. These days all their flashing nightclub lights and spinning mirrorballs only serve to remind me of what we’ve lost. I’m also dining a lot earlier in the evening...

The room is full of under 30s arranged on little stools around low wooden tables. The soundtrack is upbeat minimal hip hop. The items on every table are beer and fried chook. We’re lured in by the 9 Boneless Chicken Sampler ($39) that’s presented on the brightly coloured double-sided menu card and duplicated on the outside of the restaurant’s street facing windows. It’s a chance to try a small portion of nine different types of their fried chicken, kicking off with traditional, that’s slightly heavy on the batter, but tasty enough.

Punctuating our path through the nine gates of fried chook with pickled daikon and jalapenos, we weren’t as fussed on Chicken V's honey butter and cheese snowflake. While crazy hot did pack some punch, it wasn’t the best tasting gochujang I’ve encountered, lacking in savoury middle. Both the onion and shallot topped chicken were good, with the thinly sliced vegetables breaking up the intensity of eating so much fried chicken. My two favourites here proved to be soy (because it was very savoury) and the gentle yellow curry, which almost felt Dutch in origin. Both went very well with Hite Beer ($5) and a bottle of Korean rice wine, Makgeolli ($12), which is big enough to share.

To up the vegetable quotient of your meal Corn Cheese ($18) here is good, if a bit pricy. It’s a skillet of finely diced red capsicum, white onion and corn kernels in a cheesy sauce, covered with melted cheese. The vegetables are kept with some crunch, and it’s great to enjoy with chicken!

Fried Rice Cakes ($12) have nice rough outsides that makes the sauce stick, though I reckon the saucing could have been more exciting than plain old sweet chilli sauce. Regardless they make nice chewy drinking snacks, particularly if you’re keen to use Chicken V as a nightclub replacement and stick around for booze, tunes and Gladys Berejiklian’s idea of...

Unbelievable poor costumer service! The waitress was sooo rude. We walked in the store and there were two costumers standing at the front, but they told us they were not in the queue, and we can go in as there was no one waiting. Common sense, we didn’t directly walk in, but wait for a few seconds want to find a waiter/waitress to guide us. The waitress just walked pass us and didn’t even say hi. That was the first time we went this restaurant, we then thought maybe she meant we can go in to find a table, as we saw there were many tables were available and no one seems want to guide us. So we just walked in and found a table, and pressed the ‘call for service’ button. The waitress came and without explanation, asked us to wait outside. We totally understand that during quarantine time, number of people is limited, so we went back and grabbed a manu from the front table and stood at the assigned area(the area for the queue). She came to us again ask us to leave and said: we have many people waiting outside, go outside. Excuse me?! No one was waiting except us! But still we didn’t say anything, we went outside, and asked her how long we will be waiting for, she did not answer. But grabbed a book and a pen asked us to write down the name. And we are the only group of people on that book waiting. While we waiting, my friends told me she felt really bad of how we were treated. After 5min many table were still empty,NO ONE LEFT and no one come in. A waiter then asked us to go in. Didn’t that waitress ask us to go out because your store has too many people? Why we were asked to go in after 5min? You still have same amount of people inside! And why we can’t wait at the assigned area where you draw the little cross for people to queue? Eventually we left and didn’t even want to try this restaurant.

This thing happened tonight around 10:30, and I saw similar comment on your Google review, please train your employee basic customer skills before let her to work.

For people who decide to try this restaurant, be prepared how badly you will be treated by that...

Dear management. Please do not hire staff that does their University project during working hours/shift!

Came here at 5:30 April 30 2025 and attempted to order online. It is our first time in Chicken V and we were not sure what the chicken flavours are so my friend stood up and went to ask this waiter that is on his laptop doing his “group project” in uni.

My friend tried to communicate with this staff repeatedly that she wants to know the flavour of the chicken and the menu but this staff is more concerned on doing his uni project and he kept on saying that what we see in the menu is what we get!

So I stood up and told him that he should be the one coming up to our table to provide customer service aka explaining the menu to us! But he just sat down and ignored us and continued university project.

Would not recommend this place and the price is premium for a chicken shop so we expect customer service! If you guys want the best korean chicken, dont waste your time going to this place because the waiter is clueless and dont care!

So we just left.

I highly recommend Myung Jang Obaltan in Pitt street that is 5mins walk from this awful place. Only Good thing that came out this interaction.

PS. I an certain he’s doing uni project becasue his laptop is open and he is seated near the entrance for...