Xpress Chicken

Xpress Chicken describes itself as the longest-running southern fried chicken specialist in Burton-upon-Trent, on New Street in the south-of-centre residential ring. The kitchen is fully halal — HMC-certifiable per the shop's own published statement — and the menu is built around fried chicken with kebabs and pizzas filling out the late-evening trade.

The chicken side runs in the standard southern-fried frame: wings, strips, fillet burgers, half-and-quarter pieces with chips, and family-bucket builds. Halal status puts it on the regular ordering list for the Branston Road and Anglesey Street Muslim community, where most of the chain fried-chicken competition isn't halal-certified. Reviewers single out the freshness of the chicken — fried to order rather than sat under heat lamps — and the generosity of the meal-deal portions.

Kebabs are doner and chicken on the spit, served wrapped or as a tray with chips; the pizza side is the standard topping list at a lower-end pricing point. Trade is collection and delivery across the central Burton patch, with steady weekday evening hours and a later Friday-and-Saturday window. A useful halal chicken option in a town centre where the chain alternatives aren't halal at all.