Combo Fried Chicken

The shop on Swanscombe High Street logged in our directory as Combo Fried Chicken now trades as Best Kebab, with Combo Chicken / Combo Kebab still appearing in some directory listings — a rebrand of the late-night kebab-and-chicken unit that has occupied this stretch for years. The neighbourhood proposition has not changed: a midweek and weekend takeaway aimed at the village's younger end of the market and at the pubs further along the High Street.

The menu is the standard British high-street kebab board — chicken and lamb donner, mixed grills and chicken shish, with a side line in burgers, peri-style fried chicken, southern-fried wings, pizzas and chips boxes — sold by the meal or as part of a meal-deal with a drink. Late opening (sources put closing time around midnight at weekends) is the operational selling-point, and a chunk of trade comes after the High Street pubs and the chip shop down the road have closed.

Swanscombe sits at the western edge of the Ebbsfleet Garden City regeneration, but its High Street has resisted being absorbed into the Bluewater orbit and continues to support independent fast-food units like this one. Reviews are typical of a village chicken-and-kebab joint — frequent praise for chips and donner wraps, occasional gripes about consistency on slow nights — but the local order book is steady.