You can now book into Edinburgh’s Spatch and order up some flame-grilled chicken using 5pm Dining.

As always, the eat-in street food market is in a state of flux.

Are burgers really over? Is pizza the hot new thing? Or is it gourmet kebabs as sold by the newly opened ‘Babs on Glasgow’s West Nile Street?

Or perhaps chicken is about to step into the spotlight of the fashionable food stage?

Fried chicken sandwiches and chicken rotisserie restaurants have been making their mark in London.

In Glasgow, both The Atlantic and The Kelbourne Saint have put rotisserie chicken at the forefront of their offer in the last year. And very successful, it has been too.

Check this Big Deal from The Atlantic on rotisserie chicken for two.

Spatch: making feathers fly

As of last week, Spatch is flying the flag for our feathered friends on Hunter Square in Edinburgh.

It is just off the Royal Mile and run by the same people who operate Burgers and Beers Grillhouse on the Royal Mile and The Newsroom on Leith Street.

As the name implies, spatchcocked (split and opened) chicken is the main attraction here and it is cooked over charcoal in the open kitchen.

Diners can choose whether they want it basted in lemon and herbs or smoky BBQ. Available whole or by the half, it can be accompanied by a range of sauces such as house BBQ, piri piri or the more exotic Caribbean jerk peach.

There are also wings and a selection of sides such as ‘slaw, mac ‘n’ cheese bites, corn on the cob and twice-cooked chips.

Would you take on Cluck Norris?

Alternatives to spatchcocked chicken include a fillet steak, veggie burger, BBQ pork ribs and The Cluck Norris – a chunky burger made with chicken cooked three ways.

Desserts such as banoffee pot and Key Lime pie will fill any remaining spaces.

Kids are welcome.

Stripped walls, wooden cladding and mis-matched furniture set the laidback tone.

The rolls of kitchen paper on the tables underline the point that this is a place for down-and-dirty, hands-on eating rather than fine dining with pinkies held aloft.

Book Spatch via 5pm Dining

You can book in today via 5pm Dining and £20 will buy you a whole chicken with a portion of ‘slaw and twice-cooked chips to share.