Bodean’s to launch in Covent Garden with all-new Kansas City barbecue dishes

A new selection of traditional Kansas City-style barbecue dishes will be served at the group's seventh site
Seventh site: Bodean's Covent Garden will trial new barbecue dishes from Kansas City
Ben Norum11 February 2016

Barbecue restaurant Bodean’s will open its seventh site this spring in Covent Garden, almost 15 years after the original brought Kansas City-style barbecue to Soho.

The group has taken over the former Mishkins site on Catherine Street and are due to launch in April.

The new site will offer a bolstered menu, with the team using it try out new dishes brought back from a recent barbecue pilgrimage to America’s Mid West alongside better-known Bodean’s staples.

On the trip the team visited numerous barbecue hotspots in Kansas City, retracing a trip owner Andre Blais took back in 2002 prior to launching the first Bodean’s restaurant on Poland Street.

He said: “Our return to the Midwest in January made us more determined than ever to bring authentic Kansas City-style barbecue to London’s thriving food scene. It’s where it all started for us...When we landed back in London we had a brand new venue, a head full of truly exciting menu concepts and a band of newly acquired stateside friends.”

The Covent Garden menu will include pork, beef, chicken and seafood cooked ‘low and slow’ in the restaurant’s own London smokehouse, while there is also talk of guest chef collaborations.

Bodean’s famous ribs and pulled pork will, of course, also feature.

American beers including Sam Adams will be available on tap alongside guest beers from closer to home. Prosecco will also be on tap.

The restaurant follows sites in Soho, Fulham, Clapham, Tower Hill, Balham and Old Street.

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