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

On The Bab Covent Garden, review: If fried chicken and beer is a tradition, we're celebratingWhether you're on the roll or on the buns, this Korean street food eatery has it coveredOn the bab or on the roll? You decide

Review at a glance

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.