The Fish and chippery closest me is probably the best out the 5 within a 10 minute travel distance between them. Their flake takes up the whole length of a large dinner plate and is a thick fillet and not covered in that much batter it becomes encased in a carboard like consistency when fried.
Hands down the best Onion Rings. I since learnt if you ask for home made ones, you dont get the pre cut and crumbed rubbish. Also you get double the amount as they use the whole onion worth for $2.00 pricey I know, considering you only get 5 for $2 on the pre packaged rubbish.
Their chips are hit and miss depending on who they have frying them up as sometimes they can non crispy and left a bit soggy. deal for 2 (2x flake, potato cake, dim sims and medium chips) for $16 cant go wrong.
Also WTF is with some places now going, small, medium, large chipsā¦ what happened to the $3 minimum etc?
Tell me about itā¦Since that original post, Iāve moved from that area, bought a house in Geelong and found a new excellent fish and chips joint in that time!
Rickyās Fish and Chips in East Geelong btwā¦under new management yet still excellent. Now the year long wait for a ā2nd itā begins!
Forget it. Went there tonight and the new ownersā¦as they always, without fail doā¦F@rked it up. Prices gone up, portions reduced, cash only now and the whole thing was greasier than the Carlton fc family day. Thatās with 2 weeks of my last postā¦wtf!
Why do people buy a well run and successful business to think they know best how to run it. They do know they are purchasing the name. goodwill and customer baseā¦not just the building and equipment right?
I remember an old observation of Rob Sitchās - that eating fish and chips is a bit like watching the oscars. When you sit down to start itās all āoh boy here we goā but by time youāre on your 3rd potato cake (or watching the award for best cinematography in a foreign language documentary) youāre massively regretting your initial decision!
Good thick crumbed calamari rings.
Pick your own fresh fillet of top fish.(John dory/barra)
Crisp hot chips.
Dimmies
Corn jacks
Salt and vinegar
Good quality tassie scallops
Good quality homemade tartar sauce in big container.(none of that Masterfoods shit)
Ample fresh lemon slices
Chiko rolls
Can of ice cold solo.
Decent Greek salad.
I love the humble fish and chips. But I have one steadfast rule when I comes to me choosing and it seems to rain true.
If said shop is more than 20kms from an Ocean (I know they donāt fish them out themselves) itās likley sub par.
Iāve never tasted a decent fish and chip shop inland, all the country towns Iāve lived in had terrible, border line salmonella riddled options. Best for me have always been the ones close to the beach. I know itās probably in my head.
Exception to that rule is if the inland shop sells fresh fish separate to fish and chips. Good example of this is āLetās eat fishā on Glenferrie road Hathorn.
The retiring owner had the shop for about 400 years and would have sold it for a squillion. Place is a license to print money during the summer.
Have been three times since it changed hands, canāt go again.
The product didnāt diminish significantly in quality, but they āmodernisedā immediately: Eftpos machine, fancy point of sale system, printed queue tickets as opposed to the old laminated numbers, and a hundred aussies behind the counterā¦ No greeks.
The one nearest me is Flippinā Fish and Chippery in Napier St Essendon. Their souvas are pretty good but not a massive fan of their fish to be honest. Speaking on license to print money, Hunky Dory Fish and Chips in Pratt St Moonee Ponds is heaving every time I go past there. Lunchtime or of an evening it is packed with people eating in. They do the traditional stuff but also the more health-conscious options, which is probably why it is so popularā¦
I was saying to a local here that itās a pity there are no good vendors of fresh fish here, funny it being a port, and the local told me all seafood has to go to Melbourne first. Portland cops it too, so I was told.
I assumed it had to do with checking for size and catch limits, but it still sounds, ahem, fishy to me.
