Popular chicken shop Fowl and Fury announce long-awaited opening date for Canton store
A well established name on the Cardiff food scene is Fowl and Fury who have shot to success after starting as a pop-up in Sticky Fingers. Serving Nashville hot chicken, they are now opening their second chicken shop.
The business, which started in lockdown in owner Jamie Rees' back garden before beginning in pop-up hot spot Sticky Fingers, currently has one restaurant in Cathays. Now they have announced the opening date for their new site in Canton on Cowbridge Road East.
The Cowbridge Road East restaurant will open on Wednesday, July 11. They will be open from 5pm on their first day but only until they have served their first 100 sandos, for just £2 each.
They are taking over the former Wiwo noodle bar and it has been eight months since the Fowl and Fury team first announced their new site, meaning customers are desperate to know when they can get a taste of Nashville in the west side of the city.
Fowl and Fury is run by married couple Jamie and Natalia Rees and sells chicken in a range of heat levels from the gentle mild up to the brain melting Nashville Fury. Customers can either order chicken tenders or a sandwich (referred to as a 'sando') as well as a selection of sides.
They've proudly called their four-table restaurant on Wyeverne Road in Cathays 'home' since 2022.
Alongside their beloved sando, Fowl and Fury plan to offer milkshakes, soft serve and lemonades on the menu as well as extended opening hours at their new site.
The team have not had an easy ride since taking over the site on King's Road in Canton. Writing on their Insta in February, they said: "We had originally intended our canton location to open by the end of January, then Feb, then March. Now.....who knows?!?
"There have unfortunately been more setbacks with the new restaurant than we can count (anything above 8 I'm out) and when you think there isn't a way something else can go wrong we find something we didn't even know could be a problem in the first place.
"Plumbing, canopy, electricity, roofing, extraction, shutters, gas...every one of these things has had issues that push the build back week after week."
In a post announcing their opening today, they said: "That's it! We're gonna open! Wednesday 11th of June from 5pm!
"There will be 100 sandos available for £2 per sando.
"Now though, it looks like they've got their issues sorted and are ready to go. First come first served. One sando per person.
"One all sandos are gone, we will close for the night and reopen on Thursday at 4pm for regular hours."
Fowl and Fury is not the only new opening in Cardiff.
On Tuesday, June 3 new sandwich shop Square + Fair opened its doors for the first time.
Located in the Royal Arcade Square + Fair is a new sandwich shop and offers up chunky focaccia sandwiches with fillings such as The Notorious PIG (pulled sticky cola pork), What the Cluck (shredded roast chicken with truffle cream cheese) and Sunday Best (roast Welsh beef with a gravy dipping tub).
Not only do Square + Fair serve big sandwiches, they also offer a crisp option you may have not come across before.
The cafe is home to a crisp station where you serve yourself plain crisps, add in the flavouring of your choice which includes options like chip shop curry, doner kebab, and southern fried chicken, shake, and away you go.
You can read our review of Square + Fair, here.
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