Cheap Chook Alert: El Jannah's New CBD Store Is Celebrating Its Grand Opening Day With $5 Chicken Meals
Sydney's CBD lunch game will never be the same when this Western Sydney icon opens its latest store.
By far one of the biggest shifts in Sydney dining history is unfolding in front of our eyes. Charcoal chicken legend El Jannah is crossing into territory that has almost always been near-untouched by chook joints, the Sydney CBD. Since the news broke that the Castlereagh Street store was coming, thousands of CBD workers are eagerly preparing to swap their usual corporate slop bowl lunch runs for El Jannah's legendary chook and garlic sauce combos, and the store chain is celebrating the success with a very special offer next week.
On Thursday, May 17, CBD diners can treat themselves to quarter chicken meals for just $5. That's juicy, smoky charcoal chicken with chips and a meal garlic sauce for less than a coffee will cost you at most cafes in the area these days. The deal is running all day long for the grand opening day, and it doesn't take much imagination to picture the line, so the early bird will get the chicken in this case.
El Jannah has been on a roll in recent years. Having started as one family restaurant in Granville, 28 years ago, the brand has since grown into one of Sydney's charcoal chicken greats. Back in March, the brand set the city alight with a surprise offer of over 100,000 whole chickens being given away for free, now they've stirred up another wave of excitement around this new opening.
The new store isn't code-switching in its move from Western Sydney into the CBD. The menu is unchanged, heavy with flame-cooked chicken, fresh rolls, tabouli, pickles, generously chicken-salted chips and of course, the garlic sauce… oh, the garlic sauce.
Chief Marketing Officer, Adam Issa, said "It took 28 years to get here, and that's the point. We have never been in a rush to be everywhere; we have focused on getting it right. Same charcoal chicken, same recipes, same toum (garlic sauce) that built this brand in Granville in 1998."
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El Jannah will open its CBD store at 151 Castlereagh Street. Visit the website for more information.
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