Fish and Chips in London

On 6 Jun 2005 06:59:28 -0700, wrote:

"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.

Forget the greasy fish and chips and just down a Whopper instead and
then concentrate on boozing. Food still isn't England's strong point.
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On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 10:40:07 -0400, Viking wrote:

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.

'Guy Fawkes season many, many years ago.
We had been pushing the guy around in an old pram
and touting the old saying 'A penny for the
guy', finished up with a few pennies each, so
we went to the chip shop, it was always the chip shop, never the fish and chips
shop in those far off days. So here we were waiting
for our pennorth of chips, and my brother is bouncing his coin
up and down on the counter when I did a double take, it was a
half crown!, A small fortune to small lads in those days, so
we had a beano with bottles of Tizer and fish with the chips'

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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"

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


Pub/restaurant fish & chips rarely come up to the quality of the chippies'.

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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.


I had one at one of the HR motorway franchises and it was very distinctly
undistinguished.

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Martin wrote:

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 10:45:42 -0400, S Viemeister
wrote:

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?

Inverness? :-)

I _knew_ someone would say that!

Inshes Business Park,
Inverness, IV2 3TW

Ah - that's why I don't know the place - it's well outside the centre.
Girvan's (near the big shopping centre) does excellent fish and chips.
It's not a chippie, though, it's a proper licenced restaurant.

Sheila

Deep Foiled Malls wrote:

On 6 Jun 2005 06:59:28 -0700, wrote:

"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.

Forget the greasy fish and chips and just down a Whopper instead and
then concentrate on boozing. Food still isn't England's strong point.

Load of rubbish.

It isn't the weak point it once was either. I had some of the best
chinese food I've had anywhere a couple of weekends ago in Birmingham,
and judging by the clientele (who were mostly Chinese) I'd say they
seemed to enjoy it too. Over the weekend I had one of the best steak
dinners I've had in a while. (Gaucho Grill in Manchester- it's a
franchise, and I don't think got enthusiastic reviews by other r.t.e
posters, but I thought it was excellent- if on the pricey side.)
Excellent Turkish food the next night. Seriously DFM, I'm beginning to
wonder if either you're just having a laugh, or you purposely go to
dives when you're in the UK? It's a while since I've had a meal I was
really unsatisfied with here, and I travel around the country quite a
bit. Actually, I was a bit ****ed off with Yo Sushi on Wardour Street a
few weeks ago. What they had was fine- but when I was there, there
wasn't much variety. They seem to have gone downhill at that branch- the
one in Manchester's Selfridges seems OK still.

Is 'English' food England's strong point? Not always, but there are
simply too many good restaurants here nowadays to poo-poo them. My only
problem with any of the restaurants I go to here are if there are any
stinking, inconsiderate smokers in them. Hopefully, they'll all get
flushed out in a couple of years if the smoking ban comes into effect...

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Martin wrote:

On Mon, 06 Jun 2005 15:08:10 GMT, "a.spencer3"
wrote:


wrote in message
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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"

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


Pub/restaurant fish & chips rarely come up to the quality of the chippies'.

Except in Yorkshire where they are sometimes better.

I was working in Aldeburgh last summer, and I was given the quaintest
little cottage on the high street. Just across the road was an excellent
fish and chip shop. I overindulged enough to do me for the rest of the
year!

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Forget the greasy fish and chips and just down a Whopper instead and
then concentrate on boozing. Food still isn't England's strong point.

Load of rubbish.
It isn't the weak point it once was either.

London is not quite in the category of New York, Paris, or Tokyo for
food, but its restaurant scene has improved a lot, and it's certainly
possible to get first-rate French, Italian, Thai, Middle Eastern, and
of course Indian food there. Unless you're on a minimal budget or
restricting yourself to strictly British food there's no reason to be
disappointed. I haven't spent enough time in the other British cities
to judge them.

Following up to chancellor of the duchy of besses o' th' barn and
prestwich tesco

Food still isn't England's strong point.

Load of rubbish.

It isn't the weak point it once was either.

there's still ground to make up on Italy, France and Spain but
its a very out of date view to think food in england is nowadays
poor. The weak point is probably the bottom end of the market.
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Following up to

London is not quite in the category of New York, Paris, or Tokyo for
food, but its restaurant scene has improved a lot, and it's certainly
possible to get first-rate French, Italian, Thai, Middle Eastern, and
of course Indian food there. Unless you're on a minimal budget or
restricting yourself to strictly British food

Modern british cooking is fine, in fact I would always go for a
place doing modern british (or modern european if you like)
rather than the routine ethnic places. The minimal budget is a
problem, Lonodon isnt cheap.
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