Vinegar Jones | Fish & Chips Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Some of the best fish and chips we have had, very friendly and polite service and very clean."
• "Best fish n chips ever tasted perfectly cooked fish, crisp light batter, crunchy and tasty."
• "Fish and chips excellent - fish tasted so fresh."
• "The chips were the best we've had! The curry sauce was just exquisite, and then chicken bites, absolutely beautiful."
• "The fish and chips was delicious with home cut chips."
• "Best fish and chips! Food was fresh and service was super quick."
• "The batter was golden and crispy and absolutely delicious."

Cons:

• "Absolutely disgusting service! Chips were so tasteless."
• "The fish was not cod or haddock but the thinnest overcooked cheap fish I've had the misfortune to encounter."
• "Expensive and tastless food, chips were white and looked uncooked, batter on the fish was soggy."
• "Barely any cod in the fish and the batter wasn't the greatest."
• "The chips are absolutely lousy, they are definitely bought in - either vac-packed or frozen!"
• "Awful fish and chips, batter flat and shiny, fish thin and seriously overpriced."
• "Worst fish and chips, no flavour, hardly any fish and the batter too oily."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff really knowledgeable about gluten and cross contamination."
• "Every time I go there it's always good food and very helpful staff who run the shop."
• "Absolutely could not do enough for us brought tables in from outside with having our grandson and being cold (November) and to top it off the fish & chips were stunning would definitely recommend."
• "All of the staff are lovely."
• "The service was very friendly and quite quick considering how busy it was."
• "Amazing service, especially from the lovely Kate."
• "Service was good, despite them being dead busy, the staff were coping well and all of them had a smile on their face!"

Cons:

• "Woman who served us was very rude asked if we wanted a fork didn’t tell us that they were plastic or that there was a charge for them."
• "Great food its a shame the counter staff ruin the experience by being rude."
• "Food ok, but terrible customer service from the girl behind the counter."
• "Appalling service. When ordering I specifically said we would like to eat in. After being served I was told we could not eat in."
• "They seem a bit rude and they didn't have any manners whatsoever."
• "Customer service is poor, asked to sit in and was as if it was a problem."
• "Not the happiest of staff said hello when I walked in and no response from the 3 staff behind the counter."

Value

Pros:

• "Food was very good, if a little small in portion size, but it filled the gap at a decent price."
• "Picked up a cone of delicious chips (plenty for a light lunch) for just £1.50. Bargain."
• "Prices are fair."
• "Portions were generous and well worth the price!"
• "I think the food was good value for money (albeit on the more pricey side) but it was definitely worth the extra."
• "All fried fresh and to order. Big portions, probably could share between two if you’re not starving!"
• "It filled the gap at a decent price."

Cons:

• "Expensive for the quality."
• "At over £10 for 2 large chips we expected so much better."
• "Very pricey especially when dining in (you get charged more for that)."
• "Absurdly expensive for an area that isn't exactly central London, yet charging those prices."
• "It’s so overpriced, the portion size of both the fish and chips were very small."
• "Extremely average fish and chips, insanely expensive (£10)."
• "Coming from a fish and chip town this was the most overpriced and underwhelming chip shop meal I have ever had."

Accessibility

Pros:

• "Location in the heart of town so does get busy."
• "Situated in beautiful Bowness-on-Windermere, who wouldn't want to take in the stunning sights, wander around the shops and tuck in to delicious food."
• "Just a short journey from the lake, about 3 or 4 minutes walk, you will find Vinegar Jones on the main st."
• "The shop is located two minutes away from a beautiful lake front."
• "Wifi works perfect and the view at the top is amazing."
• "The upstairs area is well presented and had a nice view over the high street."
• "Dining room upstairs. Lovely views."

Cons:

• "Seating upstairs but if there is a large group/tour booking then it is unavailable for everyone else."
• "No parking and the upstairs would benefit from some air con as it was very humid."
• "Not a wheelchair friendly seating place upstairs. Toilets also upstairs."
• "Only downside is that the seating options were upstairs so we couldn't sit inside with my grandma."
• "However, the sitting area upstairs was full of loud children running around and it was very unpleasant to eat there."
• "Not the happiest of staff said hello when I walked in and no response from the 3 staff behind the counter."
• "Will not come again here again."