Slim Chicken to open in Festival Place shopping centre

The restaurant will have room for 85 diners.

Sovereign Centros from CBRE has announced that Slim Chickens, the American fried chicken restaurant chain, has selected Festival Place to be the home of its next location. 

Making its Basingstoke debut, the Boparan Restaurant Group (BRG) operated brand is set to open this July, taking a 3,503 sq ft unit on the ground floor of the centre.

With room for over 85 diners, Slim Chickens Festival Place will deliver its casual dining offer, serving fresh hand-breaded buttermilk-marinated chicken cooked to order. Alongside its trademark chicken tenders, diners will also be able to choose from a menu of other dishes, including sandwiches, crispy wings, wraps, salads, sides, and a range of plant-based options. Slim Chickens’ 15 handmade dipping sauces will also be on offer, featuring a range of flavours, from garlic parmesan to honey BBQ, to its best-selling signature sauce.

Slim Chickens will add to Festival Place’s increasingly diverse dining offer, joining the recently upsized restaurant from street-food concept, Festival Street Kitchen, and the recently opened independent Mexican-inspired operator, El Bigote.