West End to welcome new late-night Korean restaurant FryDays

West End’s old Hi-Fi bar will be taken over by a hot new Korean eatery, specialising in fried chicken with a Japanese twist alongside a range of both local and Asian beers and spirits.

BRISBANE’S late-night dining scene is heating up with the opening of FryDays in West End.

The new restaurant will take over the former Hi-Fi bar site along Boundary St and specialise in Korean fried chicken served up to nine ways, including honey butter and garlic soy.

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“The main (focus) will be chicken but we’ll be doing deep-fried everything – prawn, dumpling, cheesy stick, vegetables,” co-owner Sean Hyun said.

An artist's impression of the new FryDays in West End.

In the kitchen will be chef and owner of popular Sunnybank Hills’ eatery Tok Tok Korean Cuisine, Jo, who will also offer a weekly changing specials menu featuring Korean and Japanese-inspired dishes that will run from stir-fried noodles and noodle soup to seafood pancakes.

FryDays will specialise in Korean fried chicken available in up to nine flavours.

Mr Hyun said the food has been designed to complement beer, with a variety of Korean, Japanese, Chinese and local craft brews available, alongside soju, sake, wine and cocktails.

And the old site will be barely recognisable, with a light and clean, industrial look transforming the space, including pale grey walls, timber detailing and mostly outdoor seating for up to 150 diners.

An artist’s impression of the bar in FryDays, which will fill the old Hi-Fi site.

The venue will be open for lunch and dinner, with the kitchen cooking until midnight for late-night revellers or shift workers keen for something other than a burger or kebab.

FryDays hopes to lift the shutters on November 20.