{"id":306633,"date":"2025-07-31T13:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306633\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:04:15","slug":"i-tried-the-new-birmingham-restaurant-you-have-to-queue-for-and-just-felt-disappointed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/306633\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried the new Birmingham restaurant you have to queue for and just felt disappointed"},"content":{"rendered":"

I love a chicken takeaway – KFC, Wingers, Popeyes, a Maccies McChicken sandwich – it’s normally top of my list if anyone asks me what I fancy for tea.<\/p>\n

So when Dave’s Hot Chicken moved into New Street – in the newly-named ‘Chicken Quarter’ – I knew I needed to try it. Not because of its celebrity status (its investors include Drake and Samuel L Jackson) but to see if the chicken was worth it.<\/p>\n

Last Friday was date night, so my partner and I left the kids with our babysitter and ventured off into town. I was excited – I’d heard good things, and seen people lining up for DHC, so I was expecting top stuff.<\/p>\n

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We arrived at 8pm, and a security guard directed us to a little queuing area outside. Let’s be real, there was plenty of room inside to queue, so I reckon this was more of a lure for potential diners if anything.<\/p>\n

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Dave’s Hot Chicken review in Birmingham -Credit:Megan Archer-Fox<\/p>\n

We patiently queued outside though, behind a cordon, until we were shown in. All in all, it took about 10 minutes to get to the self-service screen from when we arrived – which was pretty good.<\/p>\n

You could feel the buzz inside. It was busy, and people were snapping pictures of the funky chicken d\u00e9cor.<\/p>\n

The menu is pretty simple – there are four meals (Dave’s #1, #2, #3 and #4) which are made up of either tenders or sliders and fries. You can pick from seven spice levels, from the lowest ‘no spice’ to the highest ‘reaper’.<\/p>\n

You can then order sides like fries, cheese fries, mac n cheese, and Dave’s Bites. There are top-loaded shakes too with Lucky Charms, Oreos or M&Ms toppings. You can get standard soft drinks as well.<\/p>\n

We wanted to try a few things so ordered a Dave’s #2 (for my partner) which was two sliders (he went for hot), a cheese fries upgrade and a Lucky Charms shake (\u00a321.26 – I stumbled a bit when I saw the price for one meal, although it did come with two sliders).<\/p>\n

I went for a Dave’s #3, a medium spiced slider and a tender with cheese fries also and a M&Ms shake (\u00a318.57).<\/p>\n

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Dave’s Hot Chicken review in Birmingham -Credit:Megan Archer-Fox<\/p>\n

Then we decided to order a side of Dave’s Bites (\u00a36.99) to try them and a single hot tender too, as I wanted to try something spicier (\u00a33.99).<\/p>\n

All in all it was \u00a350.91 – which was A LOT I thought for fast food.<\/p>\n

And it was fast, it came out in about 10 minutes and we sat down to eat it. My first thought was that it looked like a lot of food. The single tender came with a piece of bread and also chips (which I think was a mistake) and the Dave’s Bites came with bread too.<\/p>\n

They looked like meals in themselves, rather than sides.<\/p>\n

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Dave’s Hot Chicken review in Birmingham -Credit:Megan Archer-Fox<\/p>\n

There were a few mistakes we realised when we sat down – the M&Ms shake I ordered actually came out as Oreos and my partner’s large Lucky Charms shake came out as a medium. But we were hungry, so we decided to just eat.<\/p>\n

I took a few photos and dived into the cheesy fries, only to find they were cold – which was disappointing. I ate a few, and took a sip of my Oreo shake – which was nice but nothing hugely special.<\/p>\n

The slider was the highlight for me – it was hot (for a start) and the chicken had a really lovely, warm n spicy flavour. The kale slaw added a welcome crunch and creaminess and the special Dave’s sauce was an added bonus on the side.<\/p>\n

I have to admit though, it wasn’t out of this world different to some other chicken burgers I’ve tried. It was good, but I wasn’t blown away.<\/p>\n

The Dave’s Bites were nice on the side, like big chunks of popcorn chicken – and I enjoyed the hot tender. I was pleased it wasn’t overly spicy, but had a nice warmness to it. I would stick with medium though if I came back.<\/p>\n

But the chips being cold? And the wrong shake coming out? I’m not sure whether to put this down to teething issues (they opened a few weeks ago) or it being busy (although they should be able to cope with it being busy) or something else.<\/p>\n

We didn’t finish all of our meal, and the sides of bread especially felt wasted, and I left a lot of my chips due their temperature. I ate the whole burger\/slider though, which I did really enjoy.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ll be back in a hurry. It’s hugely expensive for what you get, I think – and I’d honestly expect my food to be piping hot wherever I go.<\/p>\n

This review was carried out independently and the restaurant did not know we were coming. The food was paid for by BirminghamLive.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I love a chicken takeaway – KFC, Wingers, Popeyes, a Maccies McChicken sandwich – it’s normally top of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,112585,393,4884,112586,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-306633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-cheese-fries","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-lucky-charms","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114947992217343234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}