The Sidemen are no stranger to business ventures but after sampling Sides fast food for the first time this week I just pray that they don’t make any more fast food joints. Here’s our Sides fast food review.

SIDES is the brand new hype sensation that was developed by YouTubers The Sidemen with restaurants opening all across the UK with the latest one popping up in the Manchester Arndale Centre as early as last week.
There are plans to grow the business and create jobs up and down the country which is a beautiful thing to see but it’s a case of quantity (in number of shops) over quality as this is one chicken place you’d rather quickly forget if it wasn’t for the names attached.
With the hype of PRIME drink taking the world by storm the Sidemen are no strangers to viral hits and exposure.
SIDES is no different as the brand is growing exponentially due to their reach and influence on a younger generation and queues form around the block the second a new SIDES joint opens up.

But how many people return to sample seriously good food and not just visit because of the name alone?
I can’t imagine very many.
SIDES is springboarding its growth through unique product innovation, including its most recent offering, SIDES Hot Chicken. The Nashville-style chicken is dipped in paprika-spiced oil with five increasing levels of heat.
I dived in with a Nashville burger meal along with loaded wings and totalled £19…. yes £19… which for the exact same amount of food would have cost me less than £10 at my local KFC.
Box Park Wembley was my venue of choice as part of a trip to London to check out Back to the Future the Musical and I paid with no questions asked as London (especially Wembley) is the definition of rip-off Britain.

Unfortunately after checking other restaurants up and down the country it seems as though SIDES charge these extortionate prices all over the country as more young people are being milked for their hard earned pennies with little in the way of quality food served in return.
If the food was good, absolutely sublime then £19 would be fully justified but that much money for a little bit of dinner is absolutely ridiculous, the bad taste in my mouth began before I even took a bite and continued thereafter for my real physical bites into my acid reflux inducing meal.
My Nashville burger had a huge piece of chicken between the bun with some Nashville sauce and it was nice to see a large piece of chicken for the price paid but there was very little flavour and the sauce didn’t compliment the burger whatsoever.

It was a little bland and the salty crosshatch fries didn’t really blow me away either. As it stands KFC is the better option especially with their new seasoned fries that now come as standard which are god tier in the fast food community.
My loaded wings were absolutely drowning in sauce and as I asked for the hottest possible sauces I was expecting a nice spicy kick, this never happened. The wings were bland and tasted almost bitter with each bite as my body was literally sending me signals to stop eating (or should I say drinking) this absolutely plastered saucy wing.
I can honestly say the best part of my meal was the Pepsi that I had to wash the taste out of my mouth and my friends who have all sampled SIDES since have also voiced the same concerns.

It’s overpriced and overhyped but it’ll make millions, of course it will but if all of the Sidemen genuinely like this food enough to endorse it that’s even more of a concern.
Their content isn’t trash, their vodka isn’t trash, KSI’s PRIME isn’t all trash (there are some lovely flavours) but this… is trash personified in a bland, boring delivery that is unforgettable the second you leave the table, never to be visited again.
Sides Fast Food Review by Sean Evans