Compo's Reviews Summary

Price and Value

Pros:

• "I do like that they do a smaller portion and reasonable prices."
• "It has a very good traditional menu that's reasonably priced!"
• "Food was piping hot and fresh."
• "Try the battered mushrooms they are amazing. Proper chips. Proper gravy. Amazing fish."
• "The fish and chips were lovely and the price was very good."
• "Food is great, the staff are very helpful and go that extra mile."
• "Not on the cheap side but its a treat so dont mind paying a little more for quality and quantity."

Cons:

• "The prices have gone truly ridiculous: £16.50 for a SMALL fish n chips with gravy (literally a splash) + chips gravy n sausage, which was bone dry over cooked see pics."
• "Soulless and extremely expensive."
• "Everything really expensive."
• "Very expensive everything charged separately couldn't even have a glass of tap water you have to pay for bottled."
• "The most expensive chippy I've ever been to.. £7 for fish and chips.."
• "Expensive lunch 10.40 for 2 fish as we threw rest away."
• "Its not cheap at all."

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food was piping hot and fresh."
• "Try the battered mushrooms they are amazing. Proper chips. Proper gravy. Amazing fish."
• "The fish and chips are excellent and fresh."
• "Food plentiful hot & fresh,"
• "Food is great, the staff are very helpful and go that extra mile."
• "The food is good, tasty, hot and plentiful."
• "Food always served quickly, freshly cooked and delicious!"

Cons:

• "The meals were cold and soggy, and left a strange sensation in our mouths like some kind of coating."
• "The fish was watery and the chips were completely stale, rock solid."
• "Fish was solid, uncooked and part frozen. Chips greasy."
• "Chips undercooked, fish was mushy and absolutely tasteless with overbrowned greasy batter."
• "Both husband and myself had fish and chips, portion gravy, portion curry sauce and 2 barm cakes. Chips not too bad the fish really soggy stuck to the chips very strong fish taste and extremely greasy 🤮"
• "The jumbo fish was not much bigger than a fish finger."
• "The fish we had resembled a chicken escalope, and so thin that you have to admire the skill of anyone who can slice a fillet of fish into two with such precision! It was also frazzled and as dry as a bone!"

Service

Pros:

• "We love eating at Compos even though we are vegetarians."
• "Always a good sign when there is some sort of queue and the staff were firing out the meals at a good pace."
• "Lovely friendly staff as well!"
• "Only 2 friendly waitresses serving a full restaurant."
• "The table service was fast efficient & friendly, ( a young lady called Kelsey I believe ), hope I've got that right !"
• "The staff are very friendly and helpful."
• "Service was excellent, the young lady who served us was lovely."

Cons:

• "Zero atmosphere. Takes ages to be served."
• "Staff are nice but today the service was much slower than usual."
• "Service poor too. Seem to wait ages to get served."
• "We had to wait over 25 minutes for our food to arrive."
• "Service so slow despite the chippy being empty."
• "Was waiting 25 minutes to even be acknowledged and order taken."
• "Service so slow 20 mins to serve 4 people."

Ambiance and Decor

Pros:

• "During these strange lockdown times it was great to get out AND eat out."
• "It's nice to sit in a fair sized dining area to eat your fish and chips."
• "They look after you here."
• "The new decor is very neutral, but well done."
• "Refurbishment is good, looks nice, clean and fresh."
• "What a beautiful place, the view of the Yorkshire countryside from the window is stunning."
• "Fish chips nice hot and crispy, and peas so tasty, all reasonably priced, a tourist hotspot."

Cons:

• "Zero atmosphere. Takes ages to be served."
• "Soulless and extremely expensive."
• "Walls bare and it wasn't as inviting as it used to be."
• "The new decor is very bland not inviting like it used to be."
• "Dont like new decor looks so dull like a hospital."
• "The place has turned into a clinical room, with no atmosphere."
• "The inside has been redecorated and genuinely looks like a desolate hospital canteen."