(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.

Actually I think I will drop by this evening...

Go to the coast anywhere in the UK though and the F&C will be superb - Grimsby's one redeeming feature for example. But the best I've ever had were in Scarborough - though I can't remember the name of the plaice (somebody had to do it)

jOe I advise you to try them both.

*proper* chippies do NOT sell kebabs

hmmm, is that really true? You working on the basis that this makes them jacks of all trades, but masters of none?

Ed, are you buying, then?

OK, Next time I'm in London I will call an FAF&C and we will carouse the chip shops of London.

1. Fishcotecque, WATERLOO! (Only marred by its lack of gravy). A grebt sit down chip shop complete with all matters of unhealthy additions to eat in or takeaway. And they do a good mug of tea.

2. Camden Fish Market, CAMDEN! (Only marred by being er, in Camden). See above - and they do gravy. They give you the gravy in a little polystyrene cup though, but still, it's good... the ideal place to go after you've run away from the goths in THE DEV. You can also go upstairs for a sit down meal and SURVEY the TEENAGERS and HIPPIES and TEENAGE HIPPIES!

3. The Rock and Sole Plaice, COVENT GARDEN! (Only marred by its chips being slightly too wide and flat, but they DO have good gravy and are lovely. And I believe they are capable of selling beer. A superb place to eat when yr in the environs. Cheap and tasty and filling and the under-the-sea decor downstairs+++).

4. Claylands Fish And Chip Shop, VAUXHALL! (Lack of gravy strikes again, but hey it's local).

None of the above sell kebabs. Places that sell kebabs aren't chip shops. They are KEBAB SHOPS. A world of DUH! That's like saying a chicken shop will suffice for chips. How wrong you are... chips serve a different function depending on your needs. In the Chick Inn (for example), the chips are only there as thin strips of potato to try and mop up some of the chicken grease from yr mouth. They fail, but it's a super-human attempt. CHIP SHOP CHIPS imply that the potato is a vital part of the whole caboodle. A chip has to be of quality there, unlike the mere acommpaniment that it is elsewhere.

Mmmm chipz0r.

I had slightly dry fish at the rock and sole plaice, but they do indeed serve booze, but ouch is it expensive. I shall make an effort to try the others., despite them being south of the river. ;-)

Nast-ee.

Then again I had chips from another chippie somewhere near Mr Farrells house and they were *smashing*. Yet again it is the chippie vs kebab shop ting.

Camden is not north of the river.

Mmm chips and gravy.

Warning though - once in Camden Fish Market I saw they had chips and cheese. Upon asking for chips and cheese, I believe I got a regular funnel of chips, with a slice of processed cheese on the top. I ph34r they had misunderstood - or perhaps I misunderstood. This sounds so ridiculous I'm wondering now if I dreamed this.

I think I should buy a chip pan.

and yeah, fishco is sooper.

Jonnie lives above a famous chipper in Muswell hill, apparently it's full of ponces with more money than sense, but the fish is alright, chips undercooked.

The big difference I've noticed between F&C shops in Grimsby and the ones here in Scotland is the huge range of different types of fish you can get in Grimsby. Here it's just cod, haddock, then lots and lots of different non-fish things. In Grimsby, it's the other way round: most of the menu is different types of fish, with a couple of other things at the end.

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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