Big D’s for hot chicken in DTK
With three small tables, seating capacity at the new chicken takeaway in downtown Kitchener is already maxed out as more people enter.
Passersby stop to read the window signage — intrigued by the activity — then note the lineup inside and move on.
They’d do well to return because they won’t be disappointed: Big D’s Hot Chicken puts up quite a good sandwich.
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Directly across the street is the success story that, for the most part, inspired Big D’s: Ace Shawarma (which I noted here late last year).
Owners and brothers, Irfan and Qasim Darsot opened Ace in 2017 — their first entry into restaurant hurly-burly — and its popularity has been steady.
Both are Cambridge born and raised and have since opened a second Ace location, with production kitchen and headquarters, at Franklin and Bishop ….
For more, visit Waterloo Chronicle.