Yes, Marcello, Carfax Chippie! The only fish & chip shop which is down a long corridor. But not only Carfax Chippie. The Mediterranean Fish Bar too - there are at least two of these, in Abingdon Road and Marston. I am fortunate enough to live equidistant between Carfax Chippie and the Abingdon Road one. Bizarrely, the latter has a small room where you can actually eat your fish & chips sitting down rather than taking them home. It has two tiny tables with gingham table cloths. I have never seen anyone using it.

And another thing - why can't you get gravy in London? Gah...

Liz, I am excited by your news that Fishco seems to be open once more for business! Each time I wander by, it seems to be lying fallow, oh alas! Alack! Perhaps I will have a stroll by on my way home tonight (or fair enough, maybe not) but I will FLAG IT FOR FOLLOW-UP! Oh boy oh boy!!

Mmmmm. Chips. Camden Fish Market is one of the best reasons one would ever need to go to Camden. Caaaaaamden. AND THEY DO GRAVY!

Our local chippie is good too. I do not know what it is called but it is on Claylands Road. They do Saveloys. I have never eaten a saveloy in my life and NEVER WILL.

One thing I do not like is the mixing of fish and chip selling with FRIED CHICKEN SELLING. Fried chicken is from the CHICKEN SHOP, not the chip shop!! HONESTLY!!!

Pete, I'm with you on the battered sossidge. Although I can happily eat fish, I never know which one to go for and the battered sossidge always seems a lot more appealing. Mmmm battered sossidge!!

Actually, I still want to try Madchens recipe of chips in goosey melting Camembert. Mmmmm!

Then again, yesterday I bought BUY ONE GET ONE FREE bags of sprouts so I er... need to eat them... quickly...

You even get funny looks at some for even asking. Naturally, they are the ones in the wrong, as any fule no that chips and gravy are the way things are meant to be. And proper gravy at that. Brothers and sisters, we must rise up - together we can save our Southern brethren from the spectre of dry chips.

One of the best fish suppers I remember having was bought in Greenock. Although this may have had something to do with it costing about £1.50. Can't remember the name of the place although I do remember it selling instant heart attacks in the form of battered haggis or battered beefburgers.

And, as Liz mentioned, Fishcoteque rules. Especially for the decor which contrasts pictures of whales and dolphins enjoying themselves with pictures of yummy fish dishes.

(Sheesh).

the Goldhawk Fish Bar on Goldhawk Road serves the BEST CHIPS EVAH! *drooooools*

But yay, Fishcoteque is back!

The chippy at the end of my road, Claudio's, is pretty good. It stopped doing Cod a while ago and replaced it with 'special fish'. They manage to get the batter really nice and crispy and they give you loads and loads of vinegar.

The great thing about fish and chips in Scotland is you get a much smaller portion of chips, so you don't feel like a disgusting old bloater if you succeed in polishing them off. Also, you ask for a fish *supper* rather than fish and chips, thereby losing the need to say fish and chips twice, so as not to confuse with two fish and chips. Did that make sense? I think so. I tend to go for the sausage supper myself because it's cheap and tasty.

I notice Birds Eye have started advertising hoki steaks in batter, presumably so that when the cod does run out they won't lose too much business.

(Peppers is good too but too far to walk from anywhere I've lived)

Yes, but its fish isn't all that good. What they are really good at doing, for some strange reason, is chicken. I always get a chicken planks or chicken sandwich basket whenever I go there.

There were a couple of good places in San Francisco too when I was there.

Hoki is marketed in the US as "blue hake" and is wildly popular behind the scenes as a drop-in replacement for cod: I think McDonald's uses it now for one.

Hurrah for the Fishcotheque! I had no idea its fame was so widespread. Mmmmm sausage supper. Heart attack in crispy meaty form, as an accompaniment to some nice goose fat. Ooohh! Chips done in goose fat would be the lardiest thing EVAH.

BY SO FAR IT IS EMBARASSING FOR THE REST OF THE RESTAURANT INDUSTRY

EMBARRASSING

24-hour fish and chips in Queens? Why oh why has this never been mentioned to me before??

Batterburgers are fucking VILE!

i am also salivating despite it being 10 in the morning i have a neeeeeeeeeed for fish and chips. some points:

1. how did i get through 2 years of living in oxford wihtout going to carfax chippy? although wings on cowley road was a v good sub.

2. chiiiiiipppppppppyyyyyy soooooossssss is double nummy and reminds me that i so need to go to embra (and glasgow too, but no chippy soss there). i think the cafe next to the festival theatre (that's the big goldfish bowl one right?) is called the city restaurant (not to be confused with the city cafe, which is some sort of poncey wine bar type place) and i have been there many a time for double egg and chips and really really nasty coffee for about two squid.

3. tartar sauce, hammers??? how middle class are you???? (joke :))

4. battered haggisses (haggi?) really are very very naughty, in a good way.

The wonderfully-named Michael's High Class Fish Bar on the Holloway Road used to be decent in the 1980s but I haven't been there recently (nosebleed territory). People keep telling me there's a fabulous chipper in the Herne Hill area but I've yet to go there.

I went past a chip shop just off Union Sq last week and it smelled dreadful.

The best chippy I've ever come across is closed now: it was Capel's in Exeter, across the road from the public swimming baths.

Destroy: any chip shop with the place / plaice pun in its name.

the midwestern friday night fish fry is a noble tradition

I'm sure it was all very tasty, but since I was the fryer, I didn't want any of it by the time I was done.

Fish and chips is one of my favorite things about no longer being a vegetarian.

The fish was cut into small pieces because I couldn't afford to feed the masses:
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We just kept frying things and throwing it into this box. It never got half full.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y21/amdraheim/fried1.jpg

English fish and chips are shit now they're cooked in cheap vegetable oil.

Do not tar the whole nation with your crappy chip experiences. Many many fine fish and chips can be had in the UK.

One time I had f&c but with SALMON. wtf Hartford, CT.

I do this frequently. Usually I keep the fryer out for the next couple days and fry whatever else I have that might even conceivably be edible battered and fried.

I always use cod. Suggest me other fish.

Haddock can be just as good fried or battered.

The cod, it always falls to teeny bits when I try to make this!

!!
Has it been thawed and refrozen multiple times?

Frozen at least once, when I buy it from the store.

Inland New Mexico doesn't have a lot in the way of fresh seafood.

use Hestons method for the batter

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/heston_blumenthal/article631377.ece

Cod is pretty bland for fish and chips. Haddock's better, but I don't know what New Mexico's haddock stocks are like. Plaice is better than cod too.

http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/1960/beer+battered+fish+chips

Trending: serve your fish and chips in a box and charge a quid over the odds because it's a fine dining experience

oh yes, i had that in Margate. it came with the free pleasure of watching some EDL lunks in bomber jackets smacking the shit out of an arcade machine :-/

cafe downstairs from work is putting this on with their fish and chips, plus inflated "seventh most expensive city in the world" surcharge

They tried opening a Harry Ramsden's in Oxford. It was a huge failure. This is because Oxford, despite its poncey rep, has some of the best fish and chip shops I've been to.

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things done changed

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MONKEY LOOK AT FISH