Barnacle Bill — Restaurant in Adelaide

Love Barnacle Bills. Have been going there all my life, to different ones all over Adelaide. Was looking forward to a nice lunch with my mother and we thought we would try the Hallette Cove one. After making it too late to get the lunch special, we ended up deciding to get a two piece fish and chips snack pack to share it between us. My mother politely asked the lady working, if she could please divide the meal up onto two plates for us, to which the lady said No sorry I can't do that but I can bring you two plates. This immediately made me a bit cross as I couldn't see the issue and my mother who is in her eighties was very polite. I did however hold my tongue and sat to wait for our meal. It arrived with the two cardboard plates but with one slice of lemon and one packet of salt for the two of us. The fish was undercooked and average. I had one bite and was done. That experience was horrible and unnecessary. I've never experienced such rudness from anyone collecting a pay check at the end of the week. Bad look. Disappointing! The date of this unforgettably, negative experience was Monday the 21st of August at about 3.00 in...

The food here is generally nice and the batter on the fish is also quite nice. However one of the pieces of fish that we ordered, the one that I ate had a small cold section within it that was actually raw. My greatest concern was the sourcing of the fish, it appears that all but two options are fish that is imported from developing countries, they don't even bother to source their Barramundi from Australia. It was also disappointing to see that the snapper, my favourite option, was no longer available, perhaps Barnacle Bill's is looking for an option to also source this from a developing country as we'll, who knows? They could make a little bit more of an effort with their chips as they are...

Food was tasty, service was quick, prices were reasonable but the butterfish fillets were very thin, somewhat disappointing. Fish was crumbed so on half the fillet the crumbs were as thick the fish. Medium chips at $6 were also quite small compared to the old fashioned fish and chip shop. The cafe was clean and they had many salad and desert options which looked nice. The atmosphere was ok, just a little noisy for dine in customers. Not really a restaurant type dine in. But ok...