Best Fish & Chips

The King Rib is a blast from the past

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Many moons ago I deep fried some mars bars with a mate. It was incredible, but I've never wanted one since. It was the kind of thing you really only need to try once.

They don't snap them in half in Edinburgh. Fry as a whole pizza, then fold so it'll fit onto the styrofoam along with your chips and then into the paper bag.

If it's a classy chippie, they put a cellophane square on top of the pizza before they fold it. If they don't, then when you get home and unfold it there's a good chance all the topping will be on one side. Once, when I was really quite drunk (only state in which you should order a pizza supper), I got them to put a pickled onion on top of the pizza before folding it. Got home to the hottest pickled onion ever and a very onion-y pizza.

I'm enjoying all the F&S chat, being from Manchester originally all this holds a v deep place in my heart. Just a brief note... You're all wrong. It needs to be fish and chips with scrappins', curry sauce and plenty of vinegar. Unfortunately in the corner of Scotland I live in there isn't a good chippie for miles. If I ever make it back down to London, any recommendations for a propa good kebab? Not greasy midnight crap but an authentic turkish freshly made wonder. I could always start a thread...

Manoush or Ranoush for a proper shawarma

Levante in Lewisham. Its a borderline religious experience.

The guy who owns that place - Callum - is a mate. He went to Japan for a couple of weeks and was cooking fish and chips in a department store - Osaka I think. He used to make up and supply batter to the oil rigs, might still do. Great bloke.

I haven't experienced a south-of-the-Forth pizza supper yet, thankfully, but the 'Deep Sea' near me has it on the menu, so will set up a hide on the 26th at 20-01

They have also put up an A1 size poster advertising DF Mars bar, which is just a huge photo of what looks like a battered turd.

FM Mangal in Camberwell.

Good shout on curry sauce though, North West memories right there

I used to live near Pitlochry and it was a chippy desert, only half decent one was at House of Bruar, but wading through a car park of tweed to get to it was just too much.

Incidentally, I had exactly the same problem when I lived in Bath

Levante in Lewisham. Its a borderline religious experience.

Oh brilliant, now I want Levante. I'll have to waddle my fat arse the 200m down the road to get it.

We were enjoying quite a few lockdown deliveries from Levante last Summer having only just discovered it. That was until a disastrous experience of not receiving a delivery order after three hours which involved many phone calls, some blatant lying on their part, a heated doorstep discussion, and an emergency home-cooked pasta.

Great food, incredible portions, and maybe we were unlucky but I'm still seething so fuck them.

Salt and cheap shite brown sauce offered to you in edinburgh.

Yeah, that really sucks.

Never had a problem in 5 years of ordering from them about once a month but no doubt that experience will make you not want to go back.

On a completely random note you have reminded me of a story I recently heard about a restaurant in Blackheath falling out with a neighbouring business (the business owner is the person who told me this) about the use of their bins that culminated in a whole rotting octopus being dumped in their paper recycling. Shots fired!

I saw a short documentary about chips and sauce. It was funny how everyone made out they have some secret sauce and yet it was just a brown sauce diluted with vinegar and water.

Found it

Am sure I’ll be forever condemned for saying this.

The King Rib is a blast from the past

If there was any rib in there, it was only because the reclaimed meat tool chipped a bit off. More eyelid and scrotum in there, for sure. Also, the BBQ sauce mixed into the batter made it less adhesive, so picking up a "King Rib" by one end would often cause a large part of the batter to peel away, the result looking like a scab hanging off a sore. Another one you really needed to be drunk to order.

God, that's so horribly accurate. I couldnt place the 'flavour' but that was it eh, BBQ, retch...

I associate it with the awful chippy on Back Wynd in Aberdeen that was just fight/murderous seagull central

Has anyone mentioned The Bellrock in Arbroath?

Battered smokie supper is outstanding and has ruined all other fish n chips for me. Ive only ever sat in and had all the trimmings, cant comment on how it works as a take away. Probably a good thing its a hefty drive from me.

Ha! Getting back to fish 'n chips, we're in the process of (hopefully) moving from Blackheath to Plumstead so I can only hope that Super Fry Fish Bar in Herbert Road is at least as good as the chippy in Old Dover Road. 4.4 on Google reviews seems pretty solid. We've already tried take-away from the Turkish place on Shooters Hill, pretty nice but about half the portion size of Levante. Gah!

Cheers I'll check them out when I'm down.

Do you rate Old Dover Road? Haven't been for about 20 years and was thinking about giving it a go.

pretty nice but about half the portion size of Levante. Gah!

We like the Levante mixed grill for 2 because we get about three meals for two people out of it :D

I'd give it 7/8 out of 1o. Ridiculous chip portions, usually pretty good cod as well, pretty fresh. Friendly folk. (Possibly cash only!)

Nice. Worth a shot then.

Give the Golden Chippy a go if you haven't.

What's the shop on Rose Street? With the 'Say aye tae a pie' sign in the window? That place is awesome

Back Wynd

Oh god I know the one you mean! Yep. A fight almost guaranteed when the boozers closed