Brixton’s acclaimed restaurant, Kricket is launching its first Fried Chicken Challenge. A line-up of esteemed chefs, restaurateurs and food personalities, will take turns to cook their very best take on a UK favourite, fried chicken. Certified chicken champions make up the judging panel, including none other than KFC’s Chief Chicken Officer, Big Zuu (self-taught chef and rapper), Jimi Famurewa (Evening Standard restaurant critic), Kerth Gumbs (Chef and Great British Menu 2020 Finalist), Flora Gill (writer and journalist) and Judy Joo (TV chef and restaurateur). Contestants include MR JI, Other Side Fried, Around The Cluck by James Cochran, Claridge’s, Richard Corrigan’s Daffodil Mulligan, Tonkotsu and Black Bear Burger.
Each contestant’s fried chicken will be judged blind and – to keep it original – the judges will give marks for one piece of chicken and an accompanying sauce. Host and compère for the evening will be Kricket Chef Patron Will Bowlby.
Doors open at 6.30pm and tickets cost £15 per person which includes unlimited Keralan Fried Chicken from Kricket, served by the team throughout the evening, and two Kingfisher beers.
The winning restaurant will receive the prized Fried Chicken Challenge trophy along with a £100 bar tab at Soho cocktail bar SOMA and a £100 donation made in their name to The Childhood Trust.
Tickets can be bought via https://www.sevenrooms.com/events/kricketbrixton
