Bakewell Fish & Chips — Restaurant in Derbyshire Dales

Jeremy Clarkson was one day telling us about best fish and chips. In his opinion. Yet he clearly never heard of this place.

I'll say it... This is the best chippy outside my jurisdiction in NM. Nothing can come even remotely close to my local chippy's. Ever. That's the law and order and it's got to be like that.

Why? Well for what I paid here I would have more in my place. More in volume, flavour... Just more. Or if I choose I could have pizza and still some change for a pint and what else. And it's not like fish was best sort either. If you look closely and think about it... They probably fishing them from river just stone throw from the place. * What i didn't like? Size. I had small things in my life. This was smaller that most of them. And peas where... Erm... Do people in Bakewell know what salt is? Don't be afraid to use it really. Does change a lot. So no salt in peas. Chips where good. Well what little I had for price or... Well X large in my place. Or many others I had f&ch and peas. And I don't know why it's not served next to chips. Peas I mean. Not on top of chips with fish on it. That's makes it really difficult to put salt and vinegar.

Yes it's not quality it's quantity. More we serve more we earn. But you can get both, and still be winner. Yeah but no. I don't want that one, quoting Andy from Little Britain. I'll skip it. As for that price I'm sure you can...

Waited at bottom of stairs for a table for a significant time to say it was almost empty.

The waiter that greeted us was very polite and showed us to our table unfortunately that's the only good point today.

The waitress we had was very blunt and hovered over us til we chose instead of asking if we were ready. I said I hadn't chosen yet and she just pointed to something on the menu and said 'here have this'

The plates weren't exactly slammed down but they could have been placed with more etiquette. I did have a fish shaped plate which was nice and quirky but it spun every time I touched my food.

The atmosphere was a awkward in a word, near silent and the waitress hovering around when the restaurant is narrow made her look out of place.

Yhe batter on the fish was extremely greasy so we didn't eat any of that. The waiter did ask if everything was OK, he was polite and had a patient tone, we said yes as he wasn't the issue. The waitress didn't ask but promptly brought out bill over as soon as we were finished.

Really disappointed because we go to this fish shop every time we are in Bakewell but have always had take away and it's always been very tasty, fresh and good value for money, always been a 5* before today.

I would return, but never to...

I dont like to leave bad reviews but am in this event in the hopes they use it to improve. Came here with a friend. I had a chicken burger and she had fish and chips. It came to over £15, the fish was ok, the chips were soggy, and the chicken burger was basically a chicken nugget in a bun, no salad or mayo or anything. Would have been better and cheaper to go to mcdonalds. Hygiene was also very low. Bucket of dirty water sat on the windowsill, man taking the money also serving food without gloves or hand washing. While I believe in equal opportunity, any staff member serving food should be clean and presentable, the man serving when we went was frankly off putting. Not sure when he had last had a clean apron or shave. Wanted to walk out but had already paid so waited and hoped for the best but will definitely not go here again unless they can pull their socks up. The chippy round the corner looked much cleaner and we wished we had gone there instead. Or mcdonalds!! Sorry people but you really do need to sort yourselves out and I hope you do and...