Watch our video review of Preston's take on classic Cajun cooking at Coco's Soul Food on Friargate

By Jack Marshall
Published 1st Mar 2024, 12:50 BST
Updated 1st Mar 2024, 13:52 BST
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When you’re eating soul food, you’re in search of a full stomach and an experience which is going to fill another gap you didn’t even know needed patching.

With that in mind, I decided to head out to Preston’s very own purveyors of such culinary offerings - Coco’s Soul Food on Friargate. With their jaunty website claiming that ‘we believe that a meal needs to do more than feed your body - it should feed your soul too,’ I was very optimistic.

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READ MORE: Coco's Soul Food review: sun, sea, sand, Bob Marley, and sampling Preston's take on the famous Cajun cuisine

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From the wonderfully colourful Caribbean murals to the endless themes of sun, sea, sand, and Bob Marley , the menu was stocked full of spices, jerk chicken, Cajun marinades, BBQ this-and-that, fried chicken, and a hot sauce called Slap Yo Mama. Here’s what we thought about the food…

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