Eat Out London!CheeMc
Korean Restaurant in London, United Kingdom. People talk about korean fried chicken, korean plum wine and dinner. See reviews and recommendations.
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We are regulars and always try something new every visit.
With the new extensions more space and less lining up!
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CheeMc: Korean Comfort Food In South London | Londonist
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The focus here is on Korean fried chicken, in the main.
That means twice-fried, extra crisp chicken pieces, seasoned and served with different sauces.
There is a big difference between American-style fried chicken and Korean, which is that the latter doesn't have a craggy ‘chicken-shop style’ coating; instead it is lighter and thinner.
Still, the best method for soaking up booze is eating fried things, as everyone knows, and so it’s with gleeful spirits we receive our order of ‘half and half’ — a whole chicken, but with two flavourings — we chose half with garlic sauce and half fried simply and finished with the largest tangle of spring onions known to woman (£17).
There's a lot of garlic in that sauce, but the burny, sulphurous edge is tamed by sugar, and we unceremoniously slurp it from the bones before scalding our tongues on the still-too-hot chicken.
Acclaimed Korean restaurant in Southwark closed after rat ...
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The fried chicken at CheeMc in Southwark was once described by restaurant critic Jay Rayner as “the best I’ve ever tried” after he sampled it with a variety of seasonings.
The inspection uncovered evidence of a significant rat problem (Southwark Council) However, following a routine inspection last Thursday, health and safety failings at the restaurant were described by Southwark Council as “catastrophic”.
Food safety officers found a catalogue of poor hygiene standards and food safety concerns, forcing them to close the restaurant due to the high risk to public health.
Councillor Barrie Hargrove, cabinet member for communities and safety, said: “It is extremely rare that we decide to close down a food business but CheeMc posed too great of a public health risk to be allowed to stay open.
The restaurant has been closed with immediate effect (Southwark Council) “Whilst most local food businesses are safe and enjoyable places to eat, thanks in part to our proactive food safety team, CheeMc flouted their responsibilities and will be held to account.
CheeMc: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and style | The Guardian
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Meal for two, including drinks and service: £35 The menu at CheeMc, a small Korean restaurant a mile down the road from the delightful building site which is London’s Elephant and Castle, is long.
And partly this is because my interest lay elsewhere – namely with the lengthy list of Korean fried chicken dishes.
Korean fried chicken is hot right now, especially if you go for the hardcore stuff, slathered in a chilli sauce the colour of the outflow from a severed jugular and finished with a sprinkle of sesame seeds.
So I’m not going to tell you that the Korean fried chicken at CheeMc is the real thing, because I’ve never been to Korea and what the hell do I know?
No frills, fabulous fried Korean chicken which will stay on your breath and, if you’re anything like me, your shirt for days.
Death threats and angry chefs – when restaurant reviews go wrong ...
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There are restaurants that try to hoodwink you, angry chefs to contend with and, as the Observer’s Jay Rayner found out recently, always the possibility that a place you have raved about may have kitchens that are not entirely rodent-free.
Occasionally you have restaurants who will get in fantastic chefs for the first six months, because they know that that’s the period during which all the reviews are written.
We had this Greek place once that we reviewed well, but then started to get bad reports about – it turned out that they had flown in this superstar chef from Greece for a few months just to get it good reviews.
Another time, a well-known chef was in the same restaurant as me and approached my table with a triumphant: “Hello, Marina!”
Restaurants have pictures of well-known critics on the back of their kitchen doors so that the staff know who to watch out for.
Jinjuu in Mayfair | Restaurant review – The Upcoming
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It’s hard to find fault in Jinjuu Mayfair’s Korean Fried Chicken.
It’s succulent, delicious and perfectly spiced: if the Korean Fried Chicken was all that Jinjuu offered, we’d probably come back at least twice a month.
Kimchi Fried Rice goes the other way, overcomplicating things with egg and far too much oil, to the point where it ends up as less than the sum of its parts.
Leave off the odd, overtly salty seaweed shortbread it came with and it would be a winner.
What it needs is to get that little bit meaner with things that simply don’t work, that little bit leaner with the selection on offer, that little bit more precise with flavour pairings.