Chicken Kitchen Shepherds Bush.

Chicken Kitchen Shepherds Bush

Jerk chicken sandwiched inside a fried dumpling, and they will sell you a plate of the dumplings on their own.1

Why go

A Goldhawk Road counter built for takeaway, doing Caribbean jerk chicken and one dish nobody else in W12 is doing. Rianne Shlebak found the dumpling fluffy enough to eat a plate of alone and the chicken inside saucy and full of flavour.1

Order this / avoid

• Order: the dumpling burger, then a plate of the dumplings by themselves.
• Avoid: planning a sit-down meal around it. The Infatuation files it as a serious takeout operation.

What locals & experts say

• Rianne Shlebak, The Infatuation (13 November 2020): At this spot on Goldhawk Road, you can get some great jerk chicken sandwiched inside a fried dumpling. She adds that the dumpling is fluffy, that they sell them on their own, and that the jerk chicken inside is saucy and full of flavour.1

Good to know

• Where: 120 Goldhawk Road, W12. The saved pin gives W12 8HD and The Infatuation gives W12 8EJ for the same number; one of the two is stale.
• Hours: listed as noon to 11pm daily.
• Halal, per The Infatuation's own filing.
• The record is six years old. Nothing has been written about this shop since November 2020.

Verdict

could-visit — Jerk chicken sandwiched inside a fried dumpling, which is a real piece of cooking rather than a menu category, and they will sell you a plate of the dumplings if you want them without the chicken. Rianne Shlebak wrote it up for The Infatuation in November 2020 and called the dumpling fluffy and the chicken saucy and full of flavour, and nobody has written about the shop since, so that is your one witness. Open to 11pm daily, halal, and built for takeaway rather than sitting down. It sits mid-ladder on the strength of the dish and the age of the evidence.