Sorry, time slips by and it’s soon a couple of day since I wrote anything or read anything. I do try to keep up with my comments but that’s all I’ve done, in a blogging sense, for the last few days. I have been to a few charity shops to dispose of various bits of clutter (I can’t believe some of the things we’ve accumulated), we’ve also been down to Peterborough (mainly to see a builder) and today we dropped off at another charity shop, visited Julia’s old base (to drop off craft supplies we don’t need) and spent nearly an hour doing a twenty minute journey to \IKEA, where we once again couldn’t park within a distance I couldn’t walk. I really am going to have to get a Blue Badge.
Yesterday we spent £32 on two lunches at the garden centre nearest to the new bungalow. It was a fact finding mission and the main fact I found was that I won’t be eating there again. It was fish and chips, which is no longer cheap food for the working classes. The fish, I admit, was very good – nice thick, fresh fillets in crispy batter. The tartare sauce was good. The peas were mediocre, which isn’t good enough for £16. And the chips were excellent, Thick, golden, well cooked – everything you would want from a chip. However, there weren’t many of them. I don’t like it when chip shops pile the chips on to make it look like you are getting plenty for your money, but I like it even less when you get a small portion. I don’t expect to pay £16 and leave the table feeling hungry.
Once we move we will be reviewing more food, so we might go back to check it out again. |On the other hand there are plenty of garden centres in Peterborough with better food and better plants, so we might not.
Pictures are going to be pictures of other fish and chips we have had. I seem to have a lot of fish and chip photos.
Haddock Special at the Dolphin Fish Bar, Sutton on Sea
The fish and chips look good! I don’t know if you can get what we call “steak fries” here with them. Thick cut, meaty potatoes! They go better with good fish than meat. I prefer them unseasoned.
I’ve seen steak chips in the shop but not bothered with them as we generally just make wedges at home. We tend not to have seasoned chips over here – I certainly don’t as they always taste salty to me. We don’t add salt so i is very noticeable. When I’m out I will squeeze the lemon on them.
Life is a vale of tears. Not enough chips is enough to make anyone cry.
Yes, it’s the straw that broke the camel’s back.
Very expensive. It wouldn’t cost half that in Ballarat and we are 100kms from the sea.
Expensive even by English standards and we are used to being overcharged. It’s not even as if they spent the extra on staff training – they were a miserable bunch.
I am always inclined to forgive a little over pricing if the service is pleasant, helpful and correct.
Agreed. A few more chips and a smile and I would have considered it pricey but fine. The first thing we saw when we approached the counter was a member of staff who sat reading and ignored us, so that set the tone. Not necessarily his fault – he may have been reading an important book about improving his customer service skills – but bad management to let him do it in view of customers wanting serving.
Skimpy portions are always a disappointment. A mystery as to why they would skimp on the chips. After all, potatoes are much more economical than fish.
Exactly my thoughts. It turned me from a man who would go there for good quality fish and chips to a man who thinks he has been short-changed and has been on |Trip advisor to say the staff were poor, the chips were meagre and the value for money was poor. All for the sake of half a potato.
What the heck.
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Certainly steep
Julia ordered and paid. I’m afraid that if I’d seen it we would have had something cheaper.