Charmouth Fish Bar Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Fantastic, freshly prepared cod and chips."
• "The fish and chips are nice. Chips are tasty and the fish is flavoursome and firm with a nice batter."
• "Best fish and chip shop ever ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ just amazing."
• "Really amazing fish (and chicken nuggets, scampi and all that we had!)."
• "The fish was perfectly cooked with light crispy batter."
• "Fish and the chips are to die for! Absolutely exquisite."
• "I had the best piece of battered cod I've had in a very long time here."

Cons:

• "Absolutely disgusting, just paid £25 for mush."
• "When we got the food back it was dry and bland."
• "Really disappointed. Not sure what happened this evening after reading other reviews prior to our visit."
• "The worst pizza margarita ever. On one side of the pizza the dough was still dough."
• "Pizza seemed to get cold very quickly and the meatballs on the mighty meatball pizza were like cheap canned substitutes."
• "The most mediocre fish I’ve ever had in a seaside town and remarkably expensive."
• "Pizzas are quite good but the chips were like leather, and lukewarm, totally inedible."

Service

Pros:

• "Staff always plentiful and pleasant, great menu and outside seating while you wait."
• "Big well done to the staff too. When we went they were really short and it was really busy."
• "Online ordering is swift and efficient."
• "Very efficient even though very busy! You can pre order and bypass the queue - worth doing."
• "Despite being so busy the service was good and the wait time for the excellent fish and chips was reasonable."
• "Fantastic service! I’ve had great communication with them via their app and Facebook messenger."
• "The staff too were incredibly attentive and kind, and didn’t put a foot wrong with our order."

Cons:

• "Chips seemed to be end of night dry and chewy…."
• "Messed order up, prices on the high side for the quality of the food which I have to say was not the nice at all."
• "3 times out of 5 wasn't given full order on departure and had to go back."
• "Very rude staff who asked us wait outside as we were blocking the airflow to the restaurant."
• "Awful rude owner who berates customers in front of other customers."
• "Major disorganisation behind the counter, to the point that we almost left."
• "However, we had to go back as the fish for one order was missing which was a pain."

Value for Money

Pros:

• "Not really cheap but definitely value for money."
• "It was so nice and pretty good value for money."
• "2 portions of haddock and 1 chips £16.20 very nice huge portions enough chips for 3 people."
• "2 medium cod and a medium chips to share left 2 of us nicely full."
• "We sat outside so paid takeaway prices which is good value."
• "The portion sizes were on the generous side too with even my appetite defeated by the amount of chips I was given (large portion)."
• "All the food was great! We weren't able to get a pizza the first time due to staff shortage but we were told ahead of time on the website."

Cons:

• "And 9.80 for a large haddock is a little pricey too."
• "The fish was slightly dearer but the menu has an asterisk saying it might change so I took that risk."
• "The worst pizza margarita ever. On one side of the pizza the dough was still dough."
• "The ham and pineapple is a bit bland but the base was so nice."
• "The most mediocre fish I’ve ever had in a seaside town and remarkably expensive."
• "Had both cod and haddock - the batter wasn’t crunchy and the portion sizes really small for the high price."
• "Visited in July 2023, it was expensive for very poor quality food, we waited 50 minutes after ordering and paying for the food to be ready."

Ordering Experience

Pros:

• "Online ordering is swift and efficient."
• "Very efficient even though very busy! You can pre order and bypass the queue - worth doing."
• "Easy to order online and pick up so no waiting around (can get very busy as it's popular)."
• "Fantastic service! I’ve had great communication with them via their app and Facebook messenger."
• "Called in the morning to reserve a table later that day."
• "Free WiFi while you wait is a plus."
• "Visited last night. Ordered from Take away counter and it was brought to us at the outside tables- served open."

Cons:

• "After waiting in the queue from opening for 40 minutes, was expecting much better than we got."
• "We decided tried here while on holiday and attempted to pre-order by phone but it was constantly engaged!!"
• "Tried to order online but website didn’t work as there were no slots available, apparently."
• "Food is expensive and not that nice, don't have a pizza or burger they are undercooked and disgusting."
• "However, I just don't understand why or how they take so long, over 50 mins for fish and chips."
• "From queue to food was 1hr and 40mins."
• "There was a queue of about 15 minutes to place your order and then a wait of 30 minutes for it to be prepared."