On The Bab Covent Garden, review: If fried chicken and beer is a tradition, we're celebrating

Whether you're on the roll or on the buns, this Korean street food eatery has it covered
On the bab or on the roll? You decide
Ailis Brennan30 November 2017

On the bab are keen for you to be on a lot of things – including their cocktail list.

These purveyors of Korean street food serve food to drink to – part of an actual tradition called “anju”, we haven’t made this up. Cocktails are soju-centric, made with the Korean spirit that is one of the most consumed in the world, which you can also go solo with.

On the bab have grown from a Shoreditch stall to a four venue outfit in four short years, thanks to a rock-solid formula. The food consists largely of meat, seafood and kimchi, served on top of, well, something. Pick what you fancy – from bulgogi beef to spicy pork – and put it on top of sticky Korean rice (the “bab”), fluffy rice buns, a sushi rice roll or noodle soup.

Alongside your carb of choice, don’t forget to add a portion of Yangyum fried chicken to your order. Crispy and moreish with a choice of toppings (sweet spicy is naughty and probably the best), eat this with an ice cold beer Chimaek-style – that’s genuinely another tradition, we promise.

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