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| - No matter how good the fish or seafood is, Joey's fish is good, frozen chips are a deal breaker. Joey's Only chooses to use frozen chips. This restaurant advertises that they serve Famous Fish and Chips and Favourite Fish and Chips. This implies quality and it should extend to ALL food served rather than being selective.
Too many restaurants consider potatoes an inconvenience they have to put up with rather than a line item that some consider one of the main focuses of the meal. I love, even crave, a properly cooked freshly prepared chip. For me the quality of chips must be equal to, if not greater than, the quality of the fish in a fish and chip establishment
The experience of good to very good fish was unable to rescue me from the depressing dilemma of having to eat the bland essentially tasteless frozen chips that graced my plate. Any potato flavour left was lost to the extra generous helping of seasoning salt they applied in the kitchen. Shouldn't that be my choice? Put it on the table for me to decide. This is not the restaurant to go for chips, which is unfortunate considering their fish is actually quite good.
What I find amusing is that they refer to their Fish and Chips as "Classic". For me classic means created the old fashioned way, just like the British do, everything made from scratch. Frozen chips are hardly classic; they are more like some post-modern nightmare. It is certainly not "Traditional" English fare like they advertise, even if they use what is arguably the king of fryable fishes, namely Haddock.
If Joey's Only put back in the potato cutters, the soaking tanks, and the blanching friers, I would up the score to a four. The fish is a four but their chips bring the rating down to two stars. Regardless of all my griping about how potatoes should be cooked when served with fish, and god knows I have done enough of that here, I must emphatically state that the service, and attention, given to me by the staff was nothing short of excellent.
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