Price of Fish & Chips - How Much?!?
Discussion
East coast Scotland near fishing ports so fish is usually good quality.
Haddock more favoured up here, I find cod tasteless.
£9 for haddock and chips the norm I think.
Restaurants either down the size of portion of fish or more usual keep price the same but maybe buying cheaper fish? Quality not as good as it used to be.
Any trawlermen on here? If a boat goes out for three days is the fish caught on the first day and on ice in the hold cheaper than the catch the day they return to port.
We get line haddock up here, caught on a line rather than net, more expensive but the taste is much better IMHO
Spellchecker strikes again a hold is not a hood
Haddock more favoured up here, I find cod tasteless.
£9 for haddock and chips the norm I think.
Restaurants either down the size of portion of fish or more usual keep price the same but maybe buying cheaper fish? Quality not as good as it used to be.
Any trawlermen on here? If a boat goes out for three days is the fish caught on the first day and on ice in the hold cheaper than the catch the day they return to port.
We get line haddock up here, caught on a line rather than net, more expensive but the taste is much better IMHO
Spellchecker strikes again a hold is not a hood
Edited by Mercdriver on Saturday 17th September 17:46
East coast Scotland near fishing ports so fish is usually good quality.
Haddock more favoured up here, I find cod tasteless.
£9 for haddock and chips the norm I think.
Restaurants either down the size of portion of fish or more usual keep price the same but maybe buying cheaper fish? Quality not as good as it used to be.
Any trawlermen on here? If a boat goes out for three days is the fish caught on the first day and on ice in the hold cheaper than the catch the day they return to port.
We get line haddock up here, caught on a line rather than net, more expensive but the taste is much better IMHO
Spellchecker strikes again a hold is not a hood
Haddock more favoured up here, I find cod tasteless.
£9 for haddock and chips the norm I think.
Restaurants either down the size of portion of fish or more usual keep price the same but maybe buying cheaper fish? Quality not as good as it used to be.
Any trawlermen on here? If a boat goes out for three days is the fish caught on the first day and on ice in the hold cheaper than the catch the day they return to port.
We get line haddock up here, caught on a line rather than net, more expensive but the taste is much better IMHO
Spellchecker strikes again a hold is not a hood
Edited by Mercdriver on Saturday 17th September 17:46
Around £12 for cod and chips round here, SW London.
There's place in Acton that was £10 for cod and chips x 2, but I've not been near it for months.
I paid over £20 for 2 meals at a chippy in Ross on Wye. It was the worst fish and chips I have ever had. Not sure how they could get it wrong but it tasted gipping. Threw it away.
Saying that £19 got us the some of the best we've ever had just outside Ross on Wye on an estate. Big queue and only opened on Fridays and Saturdays.
Fish and chips are no longer the cheap and cheerful food it once was.
We go to one of those Chicken shops now. 2 massive chicken and chips with Pepsi's for around £7.
There's place in Acton that was £10 for cod and chips x 2, but I've not been near it for months.
I paid over £20 for 2 meals at a chippy in Ross on Wye. It was the worst fish and chips I have ever had. Not sure how they could get it wrong but it tasted gipping. Threw it away.
Saying that £19 got us the some of the best we've ever had just outside Ross on Wye on an estate. Big queue and only opened on Fridays and Saturdays.
Fish and chips are no longer the cheap and cheerful food it once was.
We go to one of those Chicken shops now. 2 massive chicken and chips with Pepsi's for around £7.
Yep standard price these days, my local has recently hiked up their prices.
https://fishandshish.co.uk/order-now#fish
https://fishandshish.co.uk/order-now#fish
Jiebo said:
In London its at least £10 for fish plus £3-4 for chips. With some sides and a drink it's a £20 meal.
I've got a much higher disposable income than most, but even I'm stopping eating it. There is a price that the market just cannot accept, and it's reach it for me, and I suspect my level is higher than others.
All these places will either have pivot as 'premium' offering to justify their prices, or go under. Who on earth is going to spend £15-20 on meal that was £6 not that long a go.
My limits £50, I'm significantly richer than yawI've got a much higher disposable income than most, but even I'm stopping eating it. There is a price that the market just cannot accept, and it's reach it for me, and I suspect my level is higher than others.
All these places will either have pivot as 'premium' offering to justify their prices, or go under. Who on earth is going to spend £15-20 on meal that was £6 not that long a go.
Gluggy said:
Yes and no I guess, the last owners to be honest were undercharging, battered sausage was £1, £3.95 for a mini fish special that was anything but mini and also included a side and so on.
At those prices it was surely a money laundering front. Given the cost of everything and if you put yourself in the chippy owner's shoes I don't think the new prices are unreasonable.
soad said:
Sounds fairly expensive for the area (I’m in Yorkshire too), but prices have gone up lately in most all places. 
This is what Murgatroyds (in Leeds) charge: https://murgatroyds.touchtakeaway.net/menu
About the same at the Wetherby Whaler. Quite like both Wetherby Whaler and Murgatroyds.This is what Murgatroyds (in Leeds) charge: https://murgatroyds.touchtakeaway.net/menu
I appreciate the chip shops are getting squeezed hard but my local on is taking the mickey so have dropped the meal apart from very rare occasions. First after the original covid lockdown, 2 weeks or so, they bumped prices. Energy wasn't silly money then, food inflation hadn't gone mad and I presume they got the business rates grant 10k ish. Then the portions started to get smaller. Since then prices have gone up twice more. Now they've started adding on 10p for a paper bag. The latest is a note in the window that fish will only be cooked on request.
It used to be a cheap takeaway option but not anymore. Does anyone else expect a full size fish and chips to feed 2 that's what me and my missus have always done. Maybe with some bits on the side or a butty.
It used to be a cheap takeaway option but not anymore. Does anyone else expect a full size fish and chips to feed 2 that's what me and my missus have always done. Maybe with some bits on the side or a butty.
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