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RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 09:29 PM UTC
My place! LOL
You are welcome anytime :)
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RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 12:05 AM UTC
Sorry, there is no such thing as a BEST Fish and Chips. Stay away from this food, it is POISON or else you will look like a Brit...! LOL
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 12:35 AM UTC
Well, London is not the best place for fish and chips, it has to be said. If you want perfection you have to go to Grimsby fish dock where the stuff is landed.
However, this place is good.
Fryer's Delight
19 Theobald's Road
Covent Garden
If in doubt ask a taxi driver, those fellows know where to get a good feed.
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 05:12 AM UTC
Not sure what 'Look like a Brit' means - that's a man who had a nasty fish experience talking by the sound of it.
Fish and chips can be horrible, it is true, but the true fish and chip supper is a wonderful thing. It doesn't have to be fatty or greasy - if you go to 'Sea Cow' in Lordship Lane, east Dulwich (south London) you'll see what I mean - it is also a good wet fish shop. 'The Sea Shell' in Lisson Grove used to have a good reputation - if you need more info email me!
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RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 12:45 PM UTC
One well know and well liked branch is Harry Ramsdens fish and chips,there is one on Regents street (can be pricey!).For the best F+C shops you've got to head for the coast really.
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 01:11 PM UTC
Yes, it is true about going to the coast. There are great fish restaurants in Whitstaple which is a really pretty seaside town to visit. Also a couple of good places in Dungeness - one of the strangest parts of the UK.
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 02:02 PM UTC
Sarah, my remark Looking like a Brit is not supposed to be an insult, but more to express my dismay at the British way of (over-) eating junk food. The quality of food seems to be measured by (large) quantity and (low) price. So F&C always seem to be large lumps of (over- or undercooked) heavily deep-fried lumps of fish with large quantities of chips, the healthiest part must be the vinegar on the chips. As a result, Britain seems to have more overweight women than any other European country (men have beer belly competition from Germany and other continental countries). Skin diseases and allergy problems are omni-present. Fish and seafood is very tasty and healthy, if consumed in modest quantities and prepared in different varieties and in a Mediterranean (French, Spanish, Greek etc) or Asian fashion accompanied by changing types of veggies (avoid deep fried). Enjoy the full flavour of fish, maybe adding a small quantity of a delicate sauce. The English F&C is - in my point of view - a vulgar way eating, vulgar also because good fish is become rare and merits more love and attention than just a stock to fatten humans (or animals)....
Richard
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 05:20 PM UTC
Actually, I do agree with you about the general quality of English food. Whilst here are many excellent places to eat here in the UK but they are certainly in the minority. There is a lot of attention being paid to poor diet in the UK at the moment following on from a TV programme that did an exposure on school children's food - the kind of diet they were getting horrified everyone and I think that arising out of that there'll be concern about what is available on the high street too (eg. the horrid fast food restaurants). But one can also get a bit too judgemental about food. I've eaten fish in so many countries round the world and there are many great ways of cooking it - good fish and chips is absolutely up there with the best. But most fish and chips is not good quality - it is very easy to make it greasy and overcooked. So don't be too prejudiced. I can't say though that I've noticed English girls are more overweight than anywhere else I've travelled to in Europe.
However, I wouldn't agree about
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 11:04 PM UTC
Well Fish and Chips done well is delightful, you just need the right ingredients. It is very difficult to find it done well in London. There are places, but they are few and generally off the tourist trail. Once you get out of London and head north, where the trawlers land their catch, the fish is fresh and delicious. Pity is sea food is not cooked very imaginatively.
As for English food in general, it is true, the standard of what people eat on a day to day basis is something we worry about. It has never been great, it is heavily influenced by the food processing business and there is no tradition of restaurant based gastronomy such as you find in France. But then in the UK you can find restaurants of many different nationalities, there is a lot of choice.
However, let us not get carried away by this. Overeating is a problem in many countries, not just the UK, and it pales into insignificance when compared with the US which is THE fast food nation.
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 07:37 AM UTC
Some of the best sea food (and fish and chips) I've had anywhere in wolrd was in Scotland. There's a very simple place in Mallaig, for example, which is a fish and chip takeaway and an unfussy restaurant - fabulous langoustine.
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 08:57 AM UTC
My all-time favourite fish and chips are from Mariner's Wharf, Hout Bay, Cape Town, South Africa... the fish comes fresh off the fishing boats about 10 metres away form the restaurant... it's fresh, succulent and oh so yummy!
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 09:29 AM UTC
I am really getting hungry now!!!
Thanks for the tips - they are very helpful and sound wonderful! Well, Scotland and South Africa are a little out of the way, but who knows, maybe next time!!! ;-)
Some of the places mentioned do have some good reviews that I found through google, so this was interesting as well!
Thanks again!
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RE: RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 02:42 PM UTC
Christine, please give us a review of the places you visited after your trip. Have a good holiday,
Richard
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RE: Best Fish 'n Chips in London Posted: Sun May 22, 2005 06:33 AM UTC
There are NO good Fish and Chip shops in London!!!!NONE
There are however very good Kebab shops.
The best place is Umats in Dalston. Actually dont bother!!! Dalstons a Dangerous place if you dont know what your doing!!
The best place in England for fish and Chips is in Whitby up North. Actually anyone whos travelling in England should go to Whitby its a gorgeous little Spooky Northen Fishing village.
Other than that there are some great Pie and Mash shops in The East End but its probably a bit out of the way as there are no real direct underground Links. (thank you just about everyone whos involved in London Town Planning!!)
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