Spitroast Shop

The Spit Roast is amazing for beef & lamb baguettes. The meat is cooked perfectly & is always juicy & succulent no matter what time of day, the accompanying salads are fresh & they have a great & varied choice! The Red cabbage & walnut salad is the most tasty, busting with flavour, freshness & crunch. I would highly recommend a visit to see for yourself!

There was a wondrous year during my youth where my best friend’s parents moved to the mountains and rented her an apartment in Neutral Bay so she’d be close to uni. Many an afternoon after a productive and well-​behaved evening at Cremorne Hotel we’d roll out of bed and trek all the way down Clarke Road for chips and a burger at Sydney’s most inappropriately named chicken shop.
Nothing beats Spitroast chips and a beef burger with cheese and tomato added and BBQ sauce. So much so that the fact that he lived in Kirribilli is possibly 90% of the reason I’m with my fiancé. Over the years I have tried pretty much everything here and I can say if there is a better chicken shop in Sydney then I haven’t found it.
Although my days backing it up on the dance floor at Mega Hole are over and I no longer live in Kirribilli I still find myself here quite regularly. The shop owner is like an old friend now that you only see when you are hungry. They have since branched out to Artarmon and Potts Point but like all chicken shop franchises the original is always the best.

Since Friedrich Nietzsche declared that «God is Dead» in his canonical 1882 treatise, The Gay Science, modernists, post-​modernists, and other progressive food critics have been struggling with the existential dilemma of a chaotic and meaningless universe. Marlowe steamed upriver not to find Colonel Kurtz triumphant in conquest over savage Africa, but weak, mad and dying in a state of horror. We have begrudgingly come to understand that life — despite the promise of a corporeal Heaven, sold to us for centuries — has no win condition.
Until now. Enlightenment, my friends, can be found by a careful application of precise gastronomic methodology:
1. Depart from your transport of choice first at North Sydney, and navigate Greenwood Shopping Centre to your initial pit-​stop, Losurdo’s Fresh Express. There, along a rear shelf facing the cheeses and deli meats, you will find bottles of Louisiana Crystal Hot Sauce at the low price of $ 2.99. This purchase is necessary; it’s also the first step to victory.
2. Move, at your leisure — meditation on the true impact of step one may take weeks — to the Spitroast Shop, on the humming main strip of Kiribilli. This old-​guard chook-​shop sells delicious roast dinners, vibrant salads and juicy meat rolls at bargain prices. The shoestring fries are crisp and seasoned to perfection but during your visit their purpose is tangential. The Spitroast Shop now sells something called a southern fried chicken burger, the acquisition of which is necessary; it’s the second step to victory.
3. Meditate no longer. Find a place to eat — in the shadow of the bridge, beside the lapping harbour, on the dirty curbside — and open your box. Tilt the top of your bun upward to reveal a mess of mayonaisse and shredded lettuce. Apply your safely stowed Louisiana Crystal Hot Sauce liberally. This step is necessary; from it, victory follows without instruction.
Nietzsche is Dead. There is one true purpose to human existence, and you’ve just achieved it. And it’s just as well, because that deep-​fried burger brought you a little closer to its end…

You don’t make friends with sa-​lad!
You don’t make friends with sa-​lad!
Great song, but couldn’t be more wrong. These dudes have tonnes of salads. Rows and rows and rows of them. All your old favourites and wild, creative, colourful bespoke numbers that make we want to run out and hug a vegan.
Here’s the skinny: get a salad roll for $ 5.50. And then you get to tell them what salad (s) you want in that roll. I know right.

Every little suburban community should have a chicken or burger bar, and Kirribilli is no exception. Located next to the local pub, this popular burger bar provides the usual cheap eats one would expect from a chicken shop ($ 10 for a burger combo, for example).
The food is reasonable enough, for the price (for those wanting a better burger the pub next door offers better food at about twice the price), although could be better — my chicken burger had a bit too much mayo and the bun did not blow me away — the same type they use at Nandos… but my pet hate, they add chicken salt to the chips without asking! Still, I am forewarned on the latter for next time, and as I said above, for the price the food is good enough