Price of Fish & Chips - How Much?!?

[okgo]

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/food/1892590/...

Will have to try this one out. It’s only down the road.

£14.70 for regular cod and chips it appears.

[soxboy]

Rick Stein gets short shrift
https://youtu.be/mE04k9u210g?si=NnQ6HM9hRC5COUQ_

[dickymint]

soxboy said:

Rick Stein gets short shrift
https://youtu.be/mE04k9u210g?si=NnQ6HM9hRC5COUQ_

Seen a few of those - total ripoff and even the chips look crap!

[Sticks.]

andyA700 said:

I trhink you mean Huss - Bull Huss/Rock Salmon/Nursehound, a member of the shark family. We used to go to the Britannia and Pilot quite regularly pre covid, both do good fish and chips.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursehound

My grandparents called it gurnett. It used to be a bit cheaper than cod.

Also in Dungeness - not tried it but herd good reports. https://www.dungenesssnackshack.com/menu

[w00tman]

dickymint said:

Seen a few of those - total ripoff and even the chips look crap!

It's a shame as we went probably 10 years ago and it was fantastic, probably top 3 of my life. But clearly, gone massively downhill.

[andyA700]

dickymint said:

soxboy said:

Rick Stein gets short shrift
https://youtu.be/mE04k9u210g?si=NnQ6HM9hRC5COUQ_

Seen a few of those - total ripoff and even the chips look crap!

I thought the chips looked good. The fish was just a standard portion. Can't comment on the scampi, because I have never eaten it. Personally, that portion of cod and chips, plus the mushy peas and tartare sauce would have been plenty for me, so that would have cost me around £16. Our local chippy in Kent does amazing cod and haddock in batter, so two large cod and a large portion of chips would be around £20.

[dickymint]

andyA700 said:

dickymint said:

soxboy said:

Rick Stein gets short shrift
https://youtu.be/mE04k9u210g?si=NnQ6HM9hRC5COUQ_

Seen a few of those - total ripoff and even the chips look crap!

I thought the chips looked good. The fish was just a standard portion. Can't comment on the scampi, because I have never eaten it. Personally, that portion of cod and chips, plus the mushy peas and tartare sauce would have been plenty for me, so that would have cost me around £16. Our local chippy in Kent does amazing cod and haddock in batter, so two large cod and a large portion of chips would be around £20.

Fish looks more like the tail/scrag end of Codling to me. Chips are down to personal taste but for me proper chip shop chips should have a fair bit of 'bendiness' to them if you hold a long one by the end.

[FiF]

dickymint said:

Fish looks more like the tail/scrag end of Codling to me. Chips are down to personal taste but for me proper chip shop chips should have a fair bit of 'bendiness' to them if you hold a long one by the end.

Is that still referenced as the angle of dangle? Dredged up from A level Food chemistry module.

[Sticks.]

FiF said:

dickymint said:

Fish looks more like the tail/scrag end of Codling to me. Chips are down to personal taste but for me proper chip shop chips should have a fair bit of 'bendiness' to them if you hold a long one by the end.

Is that still referenced as the angle of dangle? Dredged up from A level Food chemistry module.

Or direction of projection. Either way, it's an age thing I think.

[dickymint]

Sticks. said:

FiF said:

dickymint said:

Fish looks more like the tail/scrag end of Codling to me. Chips are down to personal taste but for me proper chip shop chips should have a fair bit of 'bendiness' to them if you hold a long one by the end.

Is that still referenced as the angle of dangle? Dredged up from A level Food chemistry module.

Or direction of projection. Either way, it's an age thing I think.

No that's 'brewers droop'

[theplayingmantis]

soxboy said:

Rick Stein gets short shrift
https://youtu.be/mE04k9u210g?si=NnQ6HM9hRC5COUQ_

If tourists are stupid enough to go there fairnplay to rick.

It's always poor ime, but it's not actually overpriced all things considered and that review is just stupid. Like those whining about paying for the tartare etc.

It's a little tub of home made, bland imo, but all comparable places charge for condiments like that.

[theplayingmantis]

w00tman said:

dickymint said:

Seen a few of those - total ripoff and even the chips look crap!

It's a shame as we went probably 10 years ago and it was fantastic, probably top 3 of my life. But clearly, gone massively downhill.

Been simply a tourist trap since it opened. Always been crap imo. Locals never have eaten there. Worst fish and chips in Padstow. And the other stuff on the menu is pretty poor too. Much like the cafe which is a curates egg of a place and the cornish arms which is crap, and to a lesser extent st petrocs (which I haven't had a bad meal in to my surprise) it's a tourist trap.

Only one of rickys really worth eating in is the seafood, which is consistently superb I think.

[soxboy]

theplayingmantis said:

soxboy said:

Rick Stein gets short shrift
https://youtu.be/mE04k9u210g?si=NnQ6HM9hRC5COUQ_

If tourists are stupid enough to go there fairnplay to rick.

It's always poor ime, but it's not actually overpriced all things considered and that review is just stupid. Like those whining about paying for the tartare etc.

It's a little tub of home made, bland imo, but all comparable places charge for condiments like that.

I don’t see an issue with the prices given the name and the location, but can see the issue when if what comes out is as crap as it appears on the video.

If that was good fish, scampi that wasn’t Young’s*, mushy peas that weren’t a blob and gravy that wasn’t cold and congealed then it would have been a lot better.

• not sure I’d ever go ‘off-piste’ and have scampi in a chippy, you kind of set yourself up for a fall by having something you really should know is from the freezer. Stick to the fish and battered sausages.

[Mobile Chicane]

People who holiday in Padstow don't actually eat.

It's the same market as Tom Aitkens' 'Tom's Plaice' in Chelsea pre the 2008 banking crash when a piece of gurnard the size of a fish finger, plus about six chips was selling at £12.

[sean ie3]

I did Rick's chipper In Padstow about 20 years ago, had monkfish in batter preceded buy a few oysters, salt vinegar lemon, could have the fish fried, grilled or in batter,to be fair I had nothing to complain about, can't remember how much.

[theplayingmantis]

Mobile Chicane said:

People who holiday in Padstow don't actually eat.

It's the same market as Tom Aitkens' 'Tom's Plaice' in Chelsea pre the 2008 banking crash when a piece of gurnard the size of a fish finger, plus about six chips was selling at £12.

I may be due a parrot but eh?!

BTW one doesn't holiday in Padstow, one gets down their for the weekend when can surely?

But Padstowitself is spoilt beyond repair.

[daqinggregg]

I always think what do people expect, its a chippy, at the end of the day its only fish and chips, what kind of transformation do they expect Rickie to perform.

But there in lies the problem, TV/celeb, chef’s, big things so much, the public have an unrealistic expectation of what they’re going to get; hence reviews that seem unfair, but in reality reflect the over – hyped image, being sold to them.

[FiF]

It all depends on the fryer on duty imo. i've been to the Magpie in Whitby, both the cafe and the takeaway. The cafe was OK, nothing
special, the takeaway was unadulterated garbage.

We've found a far better shop, closer to the cottage and far less hassle for parking.

Here at home, over the years we've split our custom across 3 shops, each had merits, but the most commonly used one has changed hands. First visit under new owners a decent time after changing hands so they'd had time to figure out the ropes. Fish was a bit soso, but undercooked chips, actually physically undercooked can't have been checked, unforgiveable. Not going back.