Coqfighter

You'll find yourself on Caledonian Road wondering why you haven't been here sooner. Coqfighter does one thing and does it obsessively well: they roast chicken over open flames until the skin cracks with promise and the meat inside stays genuinely juicy. The room itself is stripped back—no fussy plating or overcomplicated sides to distract from what matters. Order a bird with a cold beer, maybe some decent chips, and watch locals who actually live round here demolish their dinners with the kind of focus usually reserved for Michelin-starred tasting menus. It's the sort of place that makes you realise how badly most London restaurants get chicken wrong.