Fryer's Delight

I simply cannot agree with the negative reviews on this site. This chippy always delivers quallity food, wheather eating in or a Take Away. It has always been at the top of it's game, with a lovely sixties interior which is always spotless. It was my favourite fish & chip shop for years. But I must still say that The Fryers Delight is a fabulous chippy and always worth a visit.
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Brian Lloyd
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 7
Wednesday, June 04, 2008

A once great fish shop that has somehow forgot how to do it

You cant cook good food in dirty filthy digusting rancid fat.

I have use this place for years but have been driven away by soggy batter and chips covered in burnt grit.

If you go when the fats just been changed im sure you can get decent food but its just not worth the risk.

I used to tell everyone to go here and go once a week myself it breaks my heart to see this place run into the ground and its great reputaion destroyed.
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Food 0 | Service 0 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 0
Monday, March 10, 2008

Vey busy little chippy where you wouldn't be out of place in workman's clothing. Space is very cramped and if you arrive after 12:15 a queue forms.

Food is good if a little bit over priced. Staff are not very welcoming of mother's with pushchairs.
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Food 7 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 2 | Value for money 4
Friday, February 15, 2008

Christmas seemed to drag on for ages but I had to go down to London for a meeting in those dreary days at the end of the second week. As I did not finish until 7:30 I decided I would get a bite to eat before joining the bargain hunters and day trippers on the train home (and maybe avoid them!). It was not as easy as I thought as many places seemed to be closed until the 6th. Yet again I found pubs advertising ‘Food – All Day – Every Day’ bar today, not after 5:00, etc. Totally frustrating. I then saw bright lights shining from the Fryer’s Delight.

It was busy and I had to wait a short while to for a place (shared tables when busy). Once sat down my ordered was quickly taken. My mug of proper tea was brought virtually immediately. A few minutes later my supper was in front of me. The chips were fantastic; chunky, well cooked and not greasy. The cod was also excellent – a thick white piece of fish, beautifully cooked and covered in a ‘moreish’ batter. It was the best ‘Fish and Chip’ supper I have had it a while.

The next week I decided to write a review. When I looked at the comments I thought I had the wrong place (no pun intended). I decided it would be best to check it out the next time I was in the area. There had been no mistake! A colleague was with me and he thought the same as I. The gherkins one (pickled cucumber) had looked delicious when I was there last time so I decided to try one. They serve them on a separate plate – ready sliced for you. The texture was wonderful unlike the awful soggy ones served by most take-ways. I cannot recommend Fryer’s delight enough.
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Davey - View all reviews by this user
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Food 10 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 8 | Value for money 10
Thursday, January 24, 2008

Don't be fooled by the traditional looks of this place. I have given the Fryer's Delight several goes and each time the food has been really disappointing. The fish is overcooked with a chewy batter and the chips are tired and make you feel more unhealthy with every bite.

The service is good and it's a nice, lively place to be. But if you want good fish and chips - this isn't the place to go. (Try The Gunmaker's pub off Clerkenwell Road nearby if you want excellent fish and chips, by the way).
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George C
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Food 3 | Service 8 | Atmosphere 7 | Value for money 5
Sunday, June 17, 2007

Well, we ate it all, so it was at least edible. Nothing notable though, very average fish. The malleable batter was definitely not crispy. Chips tasted OK-ish but again definitely not crispy. Bread was horrible, elastic plastic smeared with some yellow chemical. They are not really bothered - undemanding people kept trickling in.
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esky
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Food 4 | Service 6 | Atmosphere 4 | Value for money 5
Monday, February 19, 2007

This fish & chippie certainly looks the business from the outside, and when I went there for a post pub dinner my dining comapnion, (if I can use such a poncy expression when talking of such a down-to earth establishment) told an anecdote of how, last time he was there he had seen the then health minister, Frank Dobson buying a cholestrol-soaked meal, and rubbing shoulders with the cabbies. All bode well for a naughty treat, but then our food arrived; and to call it poor, or unpalatable would be an understatement. The batter was soggy, chewy, cooked to the colour of dark coffee and had almost certainly been re-heated or kept warm for hours. The fish lacked texture and tasted like what it was; frozen fish that has been poorly stored and overcooked. It couldn`t have been worse if ther tried. I have eaten much better fish and chips in tourist traps and at motorway service stations, it was foul and even their chips were overcooked. Fish and Chips should be golden in colour when served, not caramelised. They should be crispy in texture, not soggy. Inside the chips should taste of potatoes, the fish of fish. It`s only deep-frying, not roket science, i can@t understand how they can serve food so bad. I don`t know if I just went on a bad day, but it was so awful that I am not going back to find out. The only reason I didn`t complain at the time was because I was being treated. In future will definately stick to The Golden Fish Bar, which is cheap, delicious and even serves home-made pies which certainly don`t have the effect of detracting from the quality of the main dish.
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Orlando Matkin
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Food 0 | Service 5 | Atmosphere 5 | Value for money 0
Friday, December 15, 2006

8 of us had a fish and chip dinner last Friday night at Fryer's Delight and we enjoyed it immensely. The fish was beautifully cooked and the chips were delicious. After reading some of the negative comments on this board we were somewhat apprehensive, but we came away satisfied both with the food and the staff and the ambience.
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Wendy Johnson
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Food 9 | Service 9 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 9
Friday, November 10, 2006

where else can you get battered sausage and chips for 1.80? This place is amazing and excellent value. The chips are the best tasting i've ever had and the canteen/50s decor is great.
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Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 9 | Value for money 10
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

It is a fish and chip shop! It looks like it is supposed to look, with formica and bench seating. If you do not know that you should get out more.

I have used this place, both for takeaways and to eat in, for many years. Food is always very good indeed. It is a fish and chip shop that concentrates on good fish rather than trying to sell pies and saveloys. Good fish and chips are a dying breed and this place is all the more valuable in the light of that.

Rock and Sole plaice does offer outside seating in trendy Covent Garden, if that is important to you, but the food is far better at Fryers Delight. Fish is top quality and the chips are not those fat cut type chips you get in the Rock&Sole Plaice

Other notable chippies are The Sea Shell in Lisson Grove and the Golden Fish up by Mount Pleasant (but if you do not like the decor in the Fryer's Delight The Golden Fish would not appeal)
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Pete
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Food 8 | Service 7 | Atmosphere 6 | Value for money 9
Saturday, August 05, 2006