Southern Fried Chicken (SFC) Abuja - Photos, Reviews

Everyone loves chicken. Nigerians love chicken. *Southern Fried Chicken *opened in 2006 to feed the citizens’ desire for deep fried chicken. The fast-food restaurant was basically Abuja’s solution to KFC and the people loved it, of course.

Southern Fried Chicken is another family-friendly restaurant, with children as its target demographic. The items on the menu are designed to appeal to kids with names like ‘SFC Wrap’ for their shawarma and ‘Empire Fillet’ for their burger. If you haven’t guessed it, their menu is chicken-dominated and so you’ll find a menu filled with a variety of chicken meals with the usual rice or chips accompaniments. The food is good, but not very spectacular. Nothing about their menu really makes them standout from other fast-food joints in the area. Their price range is pretty average as well.

The restaurant itself appears to be quite casual. There are no elaborate decorations or extravagant furniture settings. Just pretty ordinary tables and chairs arranged in a convenient manner and a few ribbons hung from the walls. During public holidays, management does make an effort to make the color scheme match the celebration, so I guess they should be commended for that. Much more could have been done with the much available space in the restaurants, seeing as children are their target demographic.  It just seems more like a lace to grab a quick lunch than somewhere you bring your kids to on a family day out. The atmosphere is very relaxed though. There’s smooth music playing in the background, and the space is well lit.

There isn’t usually a rush here, unless you decide to visit on a public holiday, so don’t expect a crowd. But as to waiting time, the service depends on whether you catch the waiters on a good or bad day and not so much the number of people waiting to be served. Sometimes they seem to be really chirpy and happy to take your order and serve you. Most times, they seem to just be biding the time until they go in the back and stick their hand in a vat of hot oil. Plus, asking for extra ketchup seems to really strike a nerve with the servers so you should really think about whether more ketchup is worth an upsetting encounter. – * 49, Libreville Street, Off Aminu Kano Crescent, Wuse 2; 40, Pope John Paul Street; Dunukofia Street, Area 11 – Abuja.*

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