Fish and Chips in London

Forty years ago when I lived in London, I was poor, and I have fond
memories of spending my last few shillings for hot, tasty fish and
chips, sprinkled with vinegar and salt, and served in a newspaper. Do
such simple, old-fashioned fish-and-chips stalls still exist, and if
so, were are the good ones? I will be returning to London this summer,
and staying in Russell Square.

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Forty years ago when I lived in London, I was poor, and I have fond
memories of spending my last few shillings for hot, tasty fish and
chips, sprinkled with vinegar and salt, and served in a newspaper. Do
such simple, old-fashioned fish-and-chips stalls still exist, and if
so, were are the good ones? I will be returning to London this summer,
and staying in Russell Square.

They aren't served in newspaper any more,, health regulations and all that.
But otherwise you can find fish and chip shops throughout the entire UK.
Except at Harry Ramsdens ;-)

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Forty years ago when I lived in London, I was poor, and I have fond
memories of spending my last few shillings for hot, tasty fish and
chips, sprinkled with vinegar and salt, and served in a newspaper. Do
such simple, old-fashioned fish-and-chips stalls still exist, and if
so, were are the good ones? I will be returning to London this summer,
and staying in Russell Square.

There's one for the tourists opposite Centre Point at Oxford
Circus. Fish and chips isn't cheap anymore, of course, with the
price of fish and it does not come in newspaper anymore. Pubs
where there are tourists often do it[1] and there are shops in
every suburb, often run by chinese people and also doing kebabs
and other things.

1]
Yatch Greenwich
Prospect of Whitby and others

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Forty years ago when I lived in London, I was poor, and I have fond
memories of spending my last few shillings for hot, tasty fish and
chips, sprinkled with vinegar and salt, and served in a newspaper. Do
such simple, old-fashioned fish-and-chips stalls still exist, and if
so, were are the good ones?

Look for ones where you have to wait for the fish to be fried for you. The
quality is always better than at places where the fish is left on a hot
shelf, waiting for customers to come in. However, these days, they come in
food grade paper, rather than newspaper, and you need to check that the
vinegar is not 'non-brewed condiment' instead.

Colin Bignell

"Forty years ago when I lived in London, I was poor, and I have fond
memories of spending my last few shillings for hot, tasty fish and
chips, sprinkled with vinegar and salt, and served in a newspaper. Do
such simple, old-fashioned fish-and-chips stalls still exist, and if
so, were are the good ones? I will be returning to London this summer,
and staying in Russell Square"

Pubs are your best bet for fish and chips. These neighborhood chip
shops tend to serve really greasy, low-quality stuff.

writes:

Pubs are your best bet for fish and chips. These neighborhood chip
shops tend to serve really greasy, low-quality stuff.

Neighbourhood chip shops are your best bet for fish and chips. Pubs
tend to serve dry, low-quality stuff.

Proper fish and chips absolutely must be eaten with fingers out of
paper. It's in Debrett's and everything.

Des

"Neighbourhood chip shops are your best bet for fish and chips. Pubs
tend to serve dry, low-quality stuff."

That wasn't my experience. Just avoid chain pubs and pubs in tourist
areas.

Mark:
Except at Harry Ramsdens ;-)

Not entirely fair - Harry Ramsden's in Inverness was judged best chippy
in Scotland not long ago. I have eaten in some of the ones it narrowly
beat, and if it's better than them, I'm impressed.

On 6 Jun 2005 02:15:14 -0700, wrote:

Forty years ago when I lived in London, I was poor, and I have fond
memories of spending my last few shillings for hot, tasty fish and
chips, sprinkled with vinegar and salt, and served in a newspaper. Do
such simple, old-fashioned fish-and-chips stalls still exist, and if
so, were are the good ones? I will be returning to London this summer,
and staying in Russell Square.

You can still get fish and chips plenty of places, but they don't seem
to be sold in stalls anymore. My feeling is you'll find them mostly in
smaller towns these days, unless you want the tourist version in the
bigger cities.

wrote:

Not entirely fair - Harry Ramsden's in Inverness was judged best chippy
in Scotland not long ago. I have eaten in some of the ones it narrowly
beat, and if it's better than them, I'm impressed.

Where is the Inverness Harry Ramsden's?

Sheila