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Prime Time Chicken

Prime Time Chicken | Legend | A staple eatery on the DTES. An easy way out would be to simply call Prime Time Chicken “ghetto-food”, as many users online reviewers seem to do. But there’s more to PTC than that. Formerly at Carrall and Cordova (now diBeppe), the current manifestation at Main and Hastings is still impossibly fast and incredibly cheap. Just don’t ask where the chicken comes from…

Usage: “Prime Time Chicken is not for everyone, and that’s a good thing…”explore-the-lexicon

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