Cookhouse Joe (Soho)

• There are still more reasons to be positive than not is the relentless inevitability that as soon as a popular restaurant or style of eatery establishes itself
• There's a group of suits with a chequebook and the moral code of a tarantula ready to leap in and laminate some menus the second they see a queue forming
• One of my happiest memories from childhood holidays in the Costa Brava is queueing up for a plump bird fresh off the spit from a roadside stall
• Skin darkened with Mediterranean herbs and crunchy with salt
• Anyway there are still ways around the problem
• Street stalls are a good bet
• Rotisserie chicken is yet to reach its zenith in London
• What you shouldn't do is go to Cookhouse Joe
• The chicken itself was pretty much inedible overcooked to the consistency of wet cotton wool
• The texture of used bandages and with an unnerving taste of cheap stock cube
• Then probably so were the napkins
• I finished most of my dry fries not because they were any good but because I was hungry and they were just about edible where the chicken was not
• I hate Cookhouse Joe because they have one job to serve roast chicken and they are absolutely no good at it at all
• The chicken is really tender and you can get a decent meal for under a tenner
• Rotisserie chicken was on the menu
• I have eaten here for a sit down meal too and had a really great time the restaurant isn't huge as it is mainly a takeaway venue
• The atmosphere is good and the food is quick and easy
• Half a beautifully cooked rotisserie chicken with salad or chips will set you back just £
• Only thing I can think of as a negative is the menu is limited but we already know what we want to eat before we sit down right

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