Chicken George Jnr — Restaurant in North Hertfordshire

Chicken George jr rules the roost! I’ve been many many chicken shops from independents to chains and all are below in the pecking order .. award winning chicken wings.. this blows them all out of the water, please BELIEVE the hype!

I drove out of my way a good two hours to visit chicken George jr after wanting to go for what seemed years. A opted for takeaway as I was in a rush to somewhere else but had to try as I was passing. They say food is sold by the eyes…well, i do anyway. if it looks the part, 9 times out of 10 you normally feel it’s better. Chicken George jr not only looks the part it taste the part. A delicious menu stuffed with variety of saucy themed flavours and quirky names. Overwhelmed for choice I ordered way more than necessary being not able to choose between the creative sounding choices. I tried 1 piece of original chicken on the bone and it was clucking massive, the slightly Salty seasoned skin with crisp and crunch deep fried to perfection..a fried chicken lovers dream. The award winning rubicon mango wings and my personal favourite buggies buffalo. The wings had the same skin and crunch and were Above avarage size. The buffalo wings were exactly what I wanted(needed) and up there with the best I’ve had. The creative rubicon mango is proberly the most creative wing I’ve ever had. A humble chicken wing evolved into its final form levels of flavours combining to give a complex taste that’s very unique and tasty. 2 burgers, the honey bbq deluxe and the chicken George whoppa. The honey bbq combined a comforting Smokey Turkey bacon flavour with the previously mentioned fried chicken and cheese. All glued together by a favourful but light ranch mayo. Now on to the chicken George whoppa.. wow .. now that’s a chicken burger. Even though there is an option to add fillets for £3 extra, as standard. The whoppa comes with 2. And absolute mouthwatering classic combination of sauces make this almost too much… almost! Finally I tried 5 no less stripes of the Thai me up flavour consisting of crushed peanuts spicy Thai sauce spring onion garlic and a lemongrass and coriander mayo Now, I can’t stand lemon grass. I can’t stand coriander either so the thought of that mayo all over those delicious wings had me nervous. i shouldn’t of worried I managed to eat them no problem because the delicacy of the herbs to mayo was so light I could blend the taste with peanut and garlic and it paired together so well. Also a Special shout out to the house made chilli sauce. Crushed chilli, spices and mint all swim together delivering that kebab house chilli taste but with a moorish creeping...

Putting the food aside, which has never been in doubt, i chose to eat in at Chicken George Jr yesterday and it wasn't a great experience.

Arrived at 7pm with my son, queued and ordered with no fuss at front counter then asked to eat in, was told i had to queue at the bar and order again to eat in, okay then fair enough wish that was clearer.

I go to the bar, and a steady busy queue being taken care of by one teenage girl who looked liked she'd rather be in bed.

When it came to my turn i stood there being completely unacknowledged by her, and the, i presume manager, sitting at he bar with his pals winding her up about being hungover. His pals came in whilst i was queuing and seemed to have skipped the queue for food ordering.

The teenager took about 10 mins to make 2 drinks, the slowest bar person i've ever seen, the manager guy just sat there and watched as she struggled with a blender, i'm just standing waiting for acknowledgment.

She ten took just as long serving the drinks as she did making them.

After almost 15 mins of waiting to be acknowledged, she asks what table number i am with a face like Kevin the Teenager from harry Enfield ( no apology for the wait, or anything) i then tried to order meals but was told i can only order each item separately. Which is a bit weird i don't understand that.

I was in a chicken shop, so tried to order "chicken", but was told no chicken on the bone

It was at that moment i walked out.

Will i eat Chicken George again? absolutely

Will i eat in Chicken...

I've been wanting to try here for YEARS after hearing such rave things about it, expectations were very high. I finally went there for the first time, and I'm sorry to say it's some of the worst chicken I've had recently. The chicken wings themsleves were very hard and crunchy (not nice and crispy) and barely warm, you could tell they were not freshly cooked and had been sitting around for a while, same goes for the chips. I went for the garlic butter and parmesan sauce on the wings, and I have never had a mayonnaise that tasted so overwhelmingly eggy before (yes I'm aware mayo is made out of eggs but I don't expect to bite into chicken and taste nothing but egg). You could not taste the garlic or parmesan AT ALL, it was very off-putting. The garlic mayo dip and the regular mayo in the burger was the same, extremely eggy, so that's all you could taste.

The chicken in the burger was very dry in the middle, and the bun had a weird taste and smell. It was quite busy on a Friday evening, but I don't really think that's an excuse to serve food thats stale and clearly been sitting there a while. I can only assume they were having a bad day or struggling to keep up with the demand, as I cannot believe that so many people are raving on about it if they are regularly serving the standard of food I got today to be honest.

On a plus side the servers were really working hard and were friendly, it just the quality of food I have...