Makers of without doubt some of Cambridge’s finest burgers, Steak & Honour launched in 2012 and was virtually single-handedly responsible for getting our city hooked on street food. Fast forward nearly a decade, and the team has come a long way since its early pitches outside Hot Numbers café, taking on two extra vans and opening a restaurant in town – but owners Leo and Charley have never been happy to rest on their laurels. The pair’s latest venture is Dot’s Hot Chicken, a lip-smacking spin-off that launched in September last year, cooking out of the S&H restaurant. “We were thinking of ways to utilise the shop during the pandemic, when we couldn’t open up fully,” explains Charley. “Our team member Tom Morgan had been to Nashville years ago and remembered their insanely good fried chicken. No one else was doing Nashville-style chicken in Cambridge, so we thought ‘why not?’” Cambridge couldn’t get enough of it and soon Dot’s needed its own space. The team mulled over getting another truck to add to the fleet, but decided to mix things up, opting for a very cool converted shipping container. “It’s been kitted out to our exact specification and has been a dream to work in so far,” enthuses Charley. Over the coming weeks you can catch the truck – which will be serving Dot’s trademark juicy chicken, pickles and thick slices of ‘milk loaf’ – at Pastore Brewing in Waterbeach, Wylde Sky Brewing in Linton and Off The Beaten Truck in Saffron Walden, among other locations. The immediate plan is for the trailer to hit the road and feed the people of Cambridgeshire, “but we haven’t ruled out getting Dot’s into its own bricks-and-mortar site eventually,” teases Charley. “Now that would be really exciting!”
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