Chicken Base — Restaurant in Reading

My dear friend has been speaking of Chicken Base for over two years now. As someone who is not naturally a believer in the otherworldly I saw this as my chance to prove him wrong. To see if this chicken palace was really the base of all operations within this plain of consciousness.

I was advised that to experience this deli of delicacies at its best, you must drink 3 beers, 2 vodka cokes and as many shots of tequila as you can stomach. You must then walk a minimum of half an hour to get to Chicken Base and the best times to experience the show are between 2am and 5am. So that is what we did. Drunk, delirious and tired, we stumbled out onto the streets of Reading with one destination in mind. The beaming sign burns into your frontal and overwhelms you with the love that only God himself can fulfil you with. You know you are there and you are excited. You and the bumbling pilgrims fall into the store, ready to consume. It has been said that even the lowest ranking staff at Chicken Base have been trained for 15 years in the Swiss Alps to survive the hardest conditions of the kitchen. Their dedication to providing the best food and customer experience is something I have never seen before (and I have dined at the best the world has to offer).

Now, the pièce de résistance, the magnum opus, the lost 10th Beethoven Symphony.

The chicken.

I spoke with the supplier of the chicken before my pilgrimage and I can confirm that every single chicken grows up in the gardens of Schönbrunn Palace, on an organic diet of strawberry seeds, champagne de poition, and the signature boef de Avignon le cónfièr. They are handled by a team of 64 Austrian farmers, gardeners and health practitioners (who are also trained in the Alps for 15 years). when they’re ready to be taken to Chicken Base, a single bodybuilder carries the chickens by hand and walks from Vienna to Calais. At which point he is greeted by a seagull, trained to carry the chickens one by one directly to Chicken Base. Last rights are given by the local priest to each chicken before they are flung into the deep frier. The chickens are not sad. They know they are contributing to a greatness they cannot comprehend.

I do not have the words to describe the food.

My voice would be wasted trying to encapsulate the food of chicken base. I no longer feel the need to do anything with my life, my friends, my lovers. I am complete. There are no more restaurants. Nothing compares. This is the base of chicken and anyone who says otherwise is a moron.

Is £7.50 worth changing your life over? In this case…

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If i could give 0 stars I would!!! I ordered the super deal for £14 Consists of super pizza with 3 toppings, 4 pieces of chicken, 4 chicken wings, regular chips +1.50 bottle of coke!

When it arrived it was a mountain of food, i called the restaurant straight away and I was told that's what I ordered!

When I first called I was told I could not pay by card and had to do it though the website, which I did. I ordered the same deal.

I checked my bank account and they charged me £36 which I'm not surprised about as it could have fed the 5000!!

During the complaint call i was greeted by nothing but disrepect, rudeness and not the slightest piece of customer service! They asked me to check my emails of my order, which I did! Nothing there....then when asked again to check...surprise surprise an invoice....45 minutes after i ordered for £36!! I asked several times for the manager which was answered In more raised voice lies, incoherent noncoence. The call was ended on me.

So, I called back from my boyfriends phone, when I asked for the £14 super deal, straight away they said your from (my address) I said no and gave another post code.....i then confirmed TWICE what the super deal consisted off and TWICE it was co firmed along with the price!! I asked for a name and it was All....

All I can say chicken base is i will not tolerate such poor service whilst being charge way over double the price of what I ordered! NEVER have I been spoken to so rudely!

I will call the restaurant tomorrow but failing an adequate response, I will be taking this futher!

ABOLUTLEY APPALLING!!!

DO NOT...

DO NOT ORDER! After spending £30, I ordered some pizzas, one of which included Hawaiian pizza for my family. When tasting the Hawaiian, it tasted like mould/had an earthy taste. I called the restaurant to inform them of this, to which I was told by the manager their company is clean and my judgement is wrong. He went on explaining how Hawaiian only has 3 toppings all of which are not off in the restaurant and again, I was lieing. When I mentioned health and safety hazard, he said nothing was wrong with it. After much dispute, nothing was resolved, instead I was called a liar for my judgement.

After being a customer for years with Chicken Base, I am highly disappointed in the way in which this has been handled. I find it highly unprofessional for a company that has been around for a long time and although I was a regular customer, I thought at least some sort of remorse or sympathy on the situation would have been offered. I will spread the word to many other customets I know so that they do not have to face this situation. I feel there must have been a change of ownership or management for thier company to change in just a matter of months, to the point they cannot handle thier complaints nor keep their customers.

I will be reporting to Trading Standards, as well as the Reading...