A Whole Chicken is Served Piece by Piece at Spoken English

“I always wanted to own a pub where you could have draft beer and chicken skewers,” says D.C. chef Erik Bruner-Yang. “We’d show you the whole chicken and then, while you were hanging out with your buddies, you’d get every piece of the chicken.”

Bruner-Yang’s concept for Spoken English, a standing room only concept hidden away in a back corner kitchen of Washington, D.C.’s Line Hotel,...