CATCH Fish & Chips Reviews Summary

Food Quality

Pros:

• "Food is really good. Crispy batter, fresh fish and really nice chips."
• "The tempura prawn was amazing, and the battered chips, wow!"
• "The fish gujons were melt in your mouth. The batter light and crispy."
• "The fish and chips were fantastic as always. Huge portions and tasted super fresh."
• "The fish was very well cooked, lovey, and crispy batter."
• "Fish was top quality batter even better."
• "The fish and chips, of course, are the quintessential favorite, impeccably prepared to a golden, crunchy exterior with flaky, melt-in-your-mouth fish within."

Cons:

• "Sorry to say the portion size has reduced drastically, expensive but was good value. Now it isn't worth over £6 for a tiny single fish, we will not return."
• "Prawn tempura was greasy and overcooked as was the sausage."
• "Fish was tasty enough but portion sizes are verging on insulting."
• "The fish was better than last time but the chips - which are supposed to be twice cooked - were anaemic and tasted of earth/dirt."
• "Food below average. One fish supper more batter and very little fish. Prawn tempura very poor. All meals cold."
• "Fish not fresh and dry, overcooked. Batter greasy."
• "Very small half a slice of haddock batter that was soggy and white cream in middle."

Service

Pros:

• "The service at the takeaway counter was quick and the staff were very helpful."
• "Service was excellent."
• "Had a very nice meal here, food very tasty and reasonably priced, service was quick and friendly."
• "Staff were all very nice and the food came out nice and quick."
• "Recommend booking in advance if sitting in and staff friendly and attentive."
• "Staff were friendly and helpful and I will definitely return soon."
• "The staff were fab, particularly the girl serving us she was so friendly and attentive and really made our visit."

Cons:

• "Service was pretty poor."
• "Shouted on waitress several times, and was ignored."
• "I had to call and chase it three times. Hugely disappointing."
• "last 3 times i have been they have got my order wrong and had me waiting 30/40 mins. finally when the food came half the order has been cold."
• "Service a wee bit slow but worth the wait (and cost)."
• "Got ignored again, i could understand if i came in during busy hours, but the restaurant was fairly quiet."
• "Had to wait 30 minutes before I decided to hunt someone down to ask for my child's ice cream."

Value

Pros:

• "Great value for what you get."
• "The lunch offer is good value for money and a big portion of fish and chips is given."
• "It is a little be expensive but worth every penny for freshly sourced fish and they also use environmentally friendly products."
• "Whether you sit in or carry out always freshly cooked and good value for money."
• "Very reliable, excellent service. Absolutely gorgeous haddock and chips."
• "Very fresh, very generous portion with chips which were not greasy."
• "Kids fish and chips was a good sized portion for a fair price."

Cons:

• "Absolutely disgraceful and overpriced. £2.45 for a can of fanta and 12 chips with the half haddock supper which was over £9."
• "Bit over priced for what you get."
• "Will never buy from this chippy again....the food doesn't equate for the cost and wasn't great got half box chips with the fish supper and a threat of salt n vinegar the fish was halfed wasn't even a whole one pure rip off merchants."
• "I get it prices have risen but why reduce portion sizes and hike the prices up."
• "The portions were small, the price sky high."
• "3 x small fish and chips for £37.35 is extortionate."
• "Very overpriced for what the place is same fish as everywhere only found it to be smaller portions also!"

Ambiance

Pros:

• "In this restaurant we celebrated my fourth trip to Scotland. It is beautiful restaurant with lovely waitresses :)"
• "Cracking wee place, nicely decorated but I bet it could get tight in the evening."
• "The ambiance is a contemporary nod to the sea, mixing the familiarity of traditional seaside charm with sleek, modern design elements that make you feel instantly at ease."
• "The decor inside was really nice."
• "I absolutely love it here, the decor is beautiful."
• "The setting was amazing, plenty of seats on the outside, inside and upstairs."
• "Visited at the end of August with a friend and was really impressed with the set up."

Cons:

• "Sitting upstairs, the atmosphere is ok, rather bright lighting, small tables with no divisions between them, bit open."
• "It's busy and bustling and quite noisy so not the place for a romantic meal."
• "Good food poor seating, smell needs better extractor...you come out of the place like you have been working in the kitchen...smelling of fried food...fish"
• "Was not happy table too close upstairs back to back with people no screens no sanitizers at tables."
• "It's busy and bustling and quite noisy so not the place for a romantic meal."
• "Upstairs was a lot warmer as kitchen was directly below, hopefully some fans could sort out that issue."
• "The 'banana blossom' is the only vegetarian main and has a strange texture."