Kentucky Fried Rooster (KFC) Australia is getting ready to launch a eating expertise that will shock some quick meals followers. The restaurant will open a short-term degustation menu in Sydney, full with 11 programs and a wine pairing.

For the worth of $75 AUD an individual (roughly $53.90 USD), Australians will have the ability to take pleasure in this tasting menu between April 1 and April 3 at an undisclosed location in Alexandria, a suburb of Sydney.

The prix fixe menu will embrace "Supercharged Wings" cooked over a mattress of charcoal and "Popcorn Rooster" served with celeriac soup, mushroom gnocchi and basil topped with an edible floral garnish, in line with a press launch. The "La Di Da Drumstick" will function the KFC drumstick dusted with quinoa and gold.

British chef Nelly Robinson is partnering with the restaurant to develop the lavish programs. Robinson owns his personal restaurant in Sydney, which gives an eight-course degustation menu that modifications each 10 weeks.

"Finger-lickin' connoisseur," a TV anchor remarked on 7NEWS in Adelaide after KFC's new menu was introduced. "Did not assume I might ever say that collectively."

To ebook a seat, followers of the fried hen restaurant should join on a waitlist, the place they're requested to elucidate which KFC dish they consider is "worthy of a la-di-da degustation."

KFC Launches 11-Course Fine Dining Menu
KFC Australia will open a short-term degustation menu in Sydney, Australia full with 11 programs and a wine pairing. Right here, a KFC outlet in Melbourne, Australia, in 2020. WILLIAM WEST / Contributor/AFP

In January, 7NEWS reported that KFC Australia was affected by a poultry scarcity associated to produce chain points as COVID-19 circumstances rose throughout the nation. A spokesperson confirmed to the outlet that some areas had been being pressured to supply a decreased menu.

One restaurant's signal instructed diners: "As a consequence of provider points, we've got no authentic hen, zingers, fillets or wings. Please check with sold-out stickers for out there gadgets."

KFC additionally addressed the scarcity in an announcement on its web site, saying: "Like many companies throughout Australia, our provide chain & workforce has been impacted by COVID-19. Relaxation assured we're doing all we will to get again to fryin' everybody's faves as quickly as attainable."

In the USA, a KFC buyer went viral final week for his outrage over the chain's allegedly elevated costs.

"I do know I ain't tweakin'," TikTok consumer @eyedealistic.don stated in a video that has reached 1.3 million views. "However this s**t performed bought increased than a motherf**ker." $57 for a 16 piece 8 biscuit!"

A refrain of viewers agreed within the feedback.

"KFC is the most important rip off," one consumer wrote. "In the meantime an entire rotisserie hen $4.99 at Costco."

"What's that noise? Oh that is me getting my pots and pans out the drawer lol," one other viewer joked.

Newsweek reached out to KFC for remark.