Elite on the Bail — Restaurant in Lincoln

It’s hard to compete with the Elite.

We’ll be going back to Elite On The Bail as soon as the chance arises. The food and the service were THAT good. But it does come at a price. Ironically, it wasn’t as cheap as chips.

We ordered :

-Regular Cod & Chips with Peas and Curry Sauce. -Large Cod & Chips with Peas and Curry Sauce. -Frickles - Battered Pickles. -A Coke and a Lemonade.

and it came to just under £45. For Fish & Chips. We know what you’re thinking. That’s an absurd amount to pay for Fish & Chips ( and frickles and drinks) but until you try Elite’s srcan, you won’t understand why it’s priced so high. It’s phenomenal.

The fish were massive, even the regular one. They were both chunky pieces of fish that tasted fresher and lighter than most other chippies we’ve been to. The chips were delicious too. Would we have wanted a few more? Probably not. There seemed to be just the right amount. The curry and peas were standard chip shop curry and peas, but we did seem to get a good amount of both.

On to the Frickles and these were right up our street. £3.25 for 10 decent-sized chunks of Pickle coated in batter with a sauce is great value in our opinion. ( They’re even cheaper if you’re getting takeaway)

Overall, for Fish & Chips, we do think it was teetering on the expensive side, but you do get what you pay for. We were looked after well by the staff and the food was exceptional. Elite are in an area of the city where rent is at a premium, so the price of goods is going to reflect that.

Best Chippy in Lincoln? It’s definitely in the...

Really disappointed, we had been looking forward to visiting here as we eat out every Wednesday in Lincoln and at the weekends. We arrived at 8.33 pm, the restaurant closed at 10pm, so we knew we had plenty of time to order and leave within the hour, however the young girls in charge at the till declined us entry stating we were 3 minutes late to be able to be seated for fish and chips twice. Instead one of the girls told us to go next door and get the order from their takeaway. We declined as we wanted to sit in and eat. The girls were very dismissive and quite rude and there didn't appear to be any management around. It appeared the girls just wanted to leave early. We now continue to eat in the Bail at Thailand No 1, Gino's and Tequilas at least twice a week and walk past the Elite which looks empty and uninspiring. Tonight Elite closed with all the lights off by 8.15pm. Maybe if they were a little more welcoming, customers might have felt more like spending their evenings...

I must say the food was good After we'd ordered our food the last of what we'd ordered was sold at the takeaway so we had to change while half way through our starters The kitchen closed at 9 while we were still eating our main courses Instead of asking us while it was open if we'd like to order a dessert they waited until we asked for the menu to tell us at 10 past 9(on a Friday) that we couldn't have anything We still had drinks left and certainly didn't expect to leave just after 9pm but were made to feel very in the way as they cleaned floors etc round us The staff all seemed more interested in talking to one another than anything else and seemed to think it was normal that they'd run out of over half the menu It would definitely have been better to get takeaway than eat in we'd have got what we'd ordered and could have eaten without feeling rushed I won't be going...