The new Chicken Cottage in Stockwell brings 5 new jobs to the area and will hopefully lead to more in the near future.
I was welcomed by Syed from the Sun Star Group, which runs several businesses in Lambeth including the Costcutter around the corner, and he was clearly delighted by the new store.
Mayor and management from the Sun Star Group who have opened this Chicken Cottage in Stockwell
A crowd gathered and I quickly cut the ribbon so as not to hold up eager customers wanting their lunch.
Given I am a vegetarian I was pleased that they had a veggie burger for me as others tucked into the chicken.
[...] Mr Mayor seems to have been at every event I have attended in the past year. He was at the Herne Hill Expo, the opening of Windrush Square and even the opening of the new Chicken Cottage in downtown Sunny Stockwell. [...]