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     The South West's Best Fish & Chips
      

Fish and Chips are still Australia's favorite summer take away food - and where ever you go in Australia you will find a fish and chip shop. The type of fish used will vary from location to location, depending on what varieties of fish are caught and also some shops will use batter and other will use breadcrumbs ( just a note here, breadcrumbs soak up more fat so even though batter sounds as if it is the less healthy option, in fact the opposite is true) and also the variety of potato's will change, producing an almost endless variety of tastes and flavours. Unlike McDonalds where the food taste exactly the same where ever you go, fish and chips will deliver a new experience with every meal you try.
Remember, c
ooked properly they is no such thing as bad fish and chips, so if you are a fish and chip connoisseur or just like a occasionally feed of fish and chips then the following business are our pick of the bunch for the South West of Victoria and South East of South Australia

Warrnambool Warrnambool has for some reason always had a large number of restaurants for its size and this competition has tended to make each restaurant (and take away ) work a little harder so when it comes to good Fish & Chip's, there is a large number of places to choose from, and in the majority of cases they all serve very good quality fish & chips, however there are a couple of Fish & Chip shops that do stand out from the crowd and worth seeking out. The following are some that we think are worthy of a mention - If you have a favourite then please let us know

Mortlake Rd Fish-n-Chips This little gem is tucked away on the outskirts of Warrnambool opposite the indoor Tennis centre. Spotlessly clean, good friendly service along with yummy fish and chips have helped to build a great reputation in just a few years. The fish is cooked fresh in a mouth watering beer batter and the chips are cut on the premises from real potato's which means you get those odd size end bits that go crispy crunchy when cooked, and the bits you pick out of the paper at the end of the meal. They also offer a good variety of fish including Flake, Butterfish, Blue Grenadier, Whiting and Barramundi, plus Prawns, Scallops and Calamari


Seafood's Warrnambool (pictured below) Located in the main street of Warrnambool and dating back to the 1960's, Seafood's is now the oldest Fish & Chip establishment in the city. Originally established by George Politis, the business is now run by George's son Chris, and if experience counts for anything then Seafood's has a wealth of expertise.

Seafood's also is the place to go if you want to buy fresh seafood in particular crayfish and were the main supplier of fresh seafood for many years before the establishment of the larger supermarkets.
Like many of the traditional Fish & Chip shops everything is cooked fresh on the premises and they have a loyal group of customers who wouldn't go anywhere else. The only drawback for Seafood's is because they are in the center of the city, car parking can be a problem during the day, although there is a large park at the rear of Seafood's, but after about 6:00 at night you can usually find a park close by. Quality of Seafood's fish and chips very good and service is quick.

Apollo Bay The Salty Dog Apollo Bay during the summer holiday season is a bustling seaside town and when you first come into Apollo Bay you get the immediate impression that you could be in one of Melbourne's beachside suburbs. There are numerous cafes and restaurants
with sidewalk seating and a large number of people on the street so when it come to buying take away or any sort of food for that matter, there is shure to be a waiting period, especially if the café or restaurant you choose is popular. The Salty Dog Fish and Chippery is one of the more popular take aways, but the quality of the food is worth waiting for. The fish is cooked fresh with a good crispy batter and the chips are cooked from raw rather than the pre cut frozen variety. There is also a good selection of other seafood options including calamari ring, scallops, seafood bites and crumbed prawns.

 

Port Fairy- Wishart's on the Wharf - Fish and chip shops located close to the sea and near the actual fishermen should have something of an advantage, especially in Port Fairy's case where the fish and chip shop (Wisharts on the Wharf) is actually located inside to old Fishermen's Co-op building, where you would imagine the ghosts of fishermen past would would haunt those

who didn't serve good fish. In Wisharts case they have nothing to worry about as they do serve good quality fish and chips. The only problem with Wisharts is that the facilities are quite small and during holiday season the wharf in Port Fairy can get very busy, so fish and chips on the wharf at Port Fairy can take some time, even outside the main holiday season you still can expect to wait a while . There is also a sit down restaurant facility attached to Wisharts, which is part of the King Geoge Wharf redevelopment, however this also can get quite busy especially with the Coffee and Cake brigade who like to arrive early for lunch so there can also be a bit of a wait in this section of the business

 

Robe Robe Seafood's has a great reputation, although the shop from the outside is not all that spectacular. However, once you go inside, you can see where its reputation comes from. The shop has a large cooking facility and is obviously designed to handle a lot of customers at times, and also the shop is spotlessly clean. Robe Seafood's also has an extensive seafood menu with crayfish, prawns, scallops and a number of other specialty items not normally found in your run of the mill fish and chip shops. The presentation and service is excellent and as for the taste you will have to judge for yourself, but very few people will be disappointed

Kingston The Big Lobster Located on the South East coast of South Australia, Kingston's main claim to fame is its fishing, in particular its Crayfish and to display the towns pride in its local product they have built a large Crayfish (actually its called "The Big Lobster") right on the beachfront. Behind the Big Lobster is one of the towns little surprises - a 400 seat+ seafood restaurant with a large take away facility that would service a city many time the size of Kingston. The Big Lobster has recently been taken over by Robe restaurateur, Murray Pitt and with the help of head chef Hayden Wagstaffe, is transforming the Big Lobster into a quality dining venue with an equally high quality take away service. Reports so far have been excellent, in particular the fish and chips, so if you love your fish and chips and you are anywhere near Kingston then the Big Lobster should be must see ( or must eat at) on your itinerary.

Finally if all this talk about fish and chips has whetted your appetite for a feed of traditional style home cooked fish and chips then this recipe from Jamie Oliver will certainly hit the spot.

Click Here for the recipe

Also for anyone interested this is a Brief History

History doesn't record the exact moment when the first meal of Fish & Chips was created or served but there is good evidence that the process of frying potato's in fat (lard) became popular in the city of Oldham(UK) in about 1860, and to prove it there is a small plaque near the Tommyfield Market in the city. At about the same time the practice of frying fish

was quite popular in Scotland and presumably the practice of frying potatoes moved northwards and at the same time the popularity of fried fish moved southwards and probably somewhere around the Scottish / English borders the two combined and the first meal of Fish & Chips was consumed ( or so the theory states). The success of this marriage of foods was assisted by the dramatic chances caused by the Industrial revolution, where small "Fish Bars" sprang up in the streets and alleys of the Industrialised cities over Britain where over-the-counter purchases of "Fish & Chips" helped nourish the workforce. Today there is nothing more British than fish and chips – wrapped in paper and eaten with salt and vinegar, fish and chips is one of Great Britain's great gastronomic exports, which is now in virtually every country colonised by the British ( and that's quite a few )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

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