Having been cooped up myself over the last couple of years, I thought they might appreciate a bit of a run about but I’m not sure my Aunt will agree.” I promised I’d only share it with my friends – so here it is on my Instagram page! The nephew came out to see what I was doing “You won’t put that photo on the village Facebook page will you?” he said “I’m just letting them have a bit of freedom. Yesterday I popped to the shops and on the way home met the chickens wandering down my road so I went to photograph them. The nephew is making no attempt to catch them” he paused for dramatic effect, “Madame J is going to go nuts if they’re still out when she gets back. There’s chickens everywhere, in the road, in people’s gardens, digging under hedges… they’re all outside your house at the moment, passed ‘em on the way in. “The nephew isn’t doing a good job” Jean-Claude. This week’s update was that our neighbours Monsieur and Madame Jupiler have gone on holiday and their nephew is staying at their house to look after their animals – a rotund sausage dog called Le Roi (the King), two very unfriendly cats that pinch my cats food off the terrace, and a dozen chickens whom Madame Jupiler dotes on. Then he tells us what’s going on in the village. Mark offers beer which is accepted before the word bière is even finished. It’s really an excuse for him to hide from his wife Bernadette, “le chef” as he calls her, she loves finding him jobs to do around the house! We sit in my little hall and I offer him coffee, he declines. Closed Monday 51, neighbour Jean-Claude popped in a couple of days ago to share some gossip – don’t get excited, nothing that happens around here is likely to appear on the front page of a newspaper! Every week it’s the same routine, he knocks at the back door and stands there looking sheepish, I say “come in and have a chat” and call Mark, my other half, to join us. Mad for Chicken, 8 Washington Ave., Plainview opening hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. “Even now, when everybody lives all over the place, we still come back to it.”Ĭlearly, it’s a place that Choi and his friends are still mad for, after all these years, a madness he hopes will soon descend upon Plainview. “I went there as a junior high kid, a high school kid, in college, and then when we all separated for college, my friends and I would all come back to it,” he said. Like others in town, they were saddened by last year’s closing of Plainview Diner, particularly Mike, whose world continues to partly revolve around a diner he grew up with in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. Its name aside, Mad For Chicken clearly aspires to be more than a place with great chicken, an ethos that the Chois find particularly appealing. Meanwhile, chicken fans can eat in at the Island’s other location, in Rockville Centre, which opened in September.) (The Chois hope to offer eat-in dining next month, along with a fuller menu, cocktails and a beer program favoring local breweries. The dining rooms are cozy, rustic, unpretentious and, at least in Plainview’s case, not open to the public for another month or so. MFC’s nicer-than-fast-food-and-cheaper-than-full-service vibe also feels of the moment. Everything is fresh it’s made from scratch, hand-brushed, and I think people recognize quality.” “I mean, who doesn’t like fried chicken, right?” Choi said. By clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.
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