Starfish Fish & Chips To Go — Attraction in North Island

IG: 2Fish1Chip

It’s Fish & Chip Friday so I decided to pop into what is an institution in Thorndon, and grab a package from Starfish Fish & Chips to Go which opened when I started at NBNZ. Nestled in a prime spot at the Molesworth St entrance to New World.

Order: Fish & Chips, Paua Fritter Cost: $23.20

The battered fish was Deep Blue Sea Cod. This puppy starts you off with a great crunchy batter that was music to the ears and definitive to the bite. The fillet itself was super soft to the bite and light on the tongue. I did question a small part of the fillet as it felt like it had more moisture than it should.

The chips were your standard frozen bag bad boys but they were cooked well to get a green light. Portion was borderline for $5 but good enough.

The Paua Fritter was a good’n with a great batter and good content. Finely minced flesh and onion, the two indistinguishable but all the same good flavour.

Pricing isn’t that bad considering location. 25 years since opening, it’s still a solid joint dishing up your staple deep fried...

So not only do they charge $4.30 for 1 scoop of average chips which looks on the small side, but they also have the cheek to charge a 1.5% fee for using EFTPOS.

So after I complained that the chips were already dear enough, why are you trying to rip me off even more, the Chinese male didn't appear to understand my perfect English question.

So no I won't go there again. Oh and Thorndon new world is even worse ... They charge $5'for cold chips that are soaked in fat.

Where are the decent quality, reasonable fish shops?...

Fast, fresh and very tasty. Some of the very best kumara chips we’ve had.

Just a hint if you are not from Wellington and you drove to Starfish: when you leave the New World parking lot, you will have to follow Molesworth right and north. Don’t take the first possible left off Molesworth if you want to go back to Wellington. That left will put you on the SH1 Motorway north, with no way to exit for at least 12 km, all the way up the hill at Johnsonville! Wait until Molesworth gets...