17 July 2007

Charcoal Chicken

17 July 2007 | kenk

For years we frequently patronised the Charcoal Chicken place in Manuka but it closed down about six years ago when its lease expired. Then we used Kingsleys Chicken in Queanbeyan but (dammit) this closed down too – last time I passed the premises were still vacant.

Does anyone know if the Manuka operation resurfaced anywhere? I think Kingsleys franchises survive though I have never located one.

Is there a charcoal chicken place surviving in Canberra/Queanbeyan?

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Absent Diane2:58 pm 19 Jul 07

yeah jackos was great!

justbands2:45 pm 19 Jul 07

Robertos dial a pizza was the best…same era as Jackos, just better.

bonfire1:25 pm 19 Jul 07

i think thats the one.

caf11:18 am 19 Jul 07

jackos?

bonfire10:22 am 19 Jul 07

there was a great pizza delivery service in the early 90’s….

DOMINATED canberra….

now its name escapes me.

bought out by a multinational.

not dial-a-dinos (remember the apple crumble pizza?) but something else…

caf11:39 pm 18 Jul 07

Oh yeah, I remember Golden Continental Chicken too! I think it was closer to the mid ninties that it closed though.

Growling Ferret9:03 pm 18 Jul 07

I miss the greatest BBQ Chook of them all – the Golden Continental Chicken at Mawson. It was owned by the Katheklakis family, and did the best roast chicken, chips, roast spuds and everything else. It closed in about 1992…

Skidbladnir12:42 pm 18 Jul 07

Kingsley’s do own both the QBN and also Lanyon premises. And suffer an inordinate number of break-ins and premises damage as a result of leaving them empty. FIIK why they aren’t open though, you’d need to ask Kingsley Varr himself.
Kingsley is quite real, and runs offices out of Dundas Court in Phillip, and they can be contacted by phone.
Go check your own Whitepages.

shiny flu12:15 pm 18 Jul 07

I remember getting chicken from Regal Charcoal Chicken as a kid… always was good. Although that would mean driving into Charnwood, being attacked by psuedo gangs and being blinded by the shine off their fake gold ‘bling’.

ant8:49 pm 17 Jul 07

I could’ve written the original post! We mourned the demise of the Manuka charcoal chicken. We could even ring them and place our order (and this was back in the 80s). A chook and 2 bags of chips. The taste of that chook was sublime.
and then we used Kingsley’s in Queanbeyan! They had really cheap Sara Lee 1 litre ice cream, too (like the ultra chocolate). It’s still all curtained, crazy. It’s in such a prime spot, on Crawford st with TONS of easy parking all around it.
We’ve tried the place in Braddon (behind the new ANU residences?) and it’s OK.
Also, the little supermarket in Campbell shops has decent BBQ chooks but sometimes they run out.

But key is that they are BBQ, and you can drive up. I guess there’s always coles and woolies but it’s not the same. Woolies chooks are better than Coles chooks though!

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