Tugboat Fish & Chips | Vacaville — Restaurant in Vacaville

Way over priced for fish & chips. My wife & I went in for lunch. Wow was I surprised. $30 for fast food lunch. Don't get me wrong, I will pay if it is worth it. $30 is even high for dinner fast food. So...now for the food. It definitely was not worth it. My wife got a shrimp plate and I had regular fish & chips. Hers was about $i5 and mine over $10. Mine was 2 pieces fish(miniature) and about 10 fries. She did have 5 shrimp, fair size but Gortons probably bigger from Safeway! Oh, and 10 fries. As for drinks, I wasn't going to pay $3 for a soda. The woman even wanted to charge my wife for water! If I hadn't already paid I would have been gone. Then, we had to pickup the food on a tray ourself. The place was not exactly clean. More like messy. I usually go to the bathroom first. If that's clean, the rest of the store should be okay. I did find it somewhat strange that the place was operated by Chinese and cooking fish & chips. Definitely not worth the price or service. Would...

Do yourself a favor and do not eat here. Here are a few of the reasons why we are not going back:

I can pretty much say that the actual fish was “missing” on the 3 piece fish and chips combo. There was so much, and I mean, SO much breading that I ended up peeling off the crust and ate whatever trace of fish I could find; The sample plater was not any better. The shrimp was ok, oysters had a very salty taste, as in not properly cleaned. The scallops… well, look at the pic. Even the ketchup was off. It was kept in the fridge for who knows how long and when it was brought out, it was sticky like a fruit preserve.

Lastly, for the 3 pieces of fish chips plus and the seafood platter, we were give 3 vinegar packets. When we asked for more, the lady pointed at the menu to let us know they charge...

This place used to be yummy. It used to be a nice, casual, yummy place to eat. This last time I went (a few days ago), was my last time here. The fried “calamari” and fried “fish” was nothing but layer upon layer of tempura. It cost just under $30 before tip for two small orders (with fries we didn’t touch) just to eat some fried tempura. I sh you not, it was the size of the tip of your pinky (of calamari) and came out the size of a whole pinky finger of tempura. The fish was paper thin and dunked in tempura many times so it looked fat. $30 for tempura and grease. Really. Honestly. I won’t talk about what crawled across the counter in front of us out of respect. But I’m going to Sharky’s next time I want good fried seafood (and great...