How English Are Our Fish & Chips?

Excellent news – we have gained entry to the Fish2Fork guide, which promotes restaurants that champion sustainable fish.

What could be more English than enjoying fish and chips on a balmy summer evening, strolling up and down the pier? Fish and chips still acts as a continuous reminder of what our mums and dads loved as kids and what their parents feasted on before them. Therefore it's all the funnier to learn that in 1860, the first fish and chip shop was opened in London by the Jewish proprietor Joseph Malin who married together "fish fried in the Jewish fashion" with chips. Furthermore, in Ireland the first fish and chips were sold by an Italian immigrant, Giuseppe Cervi, who had stepped off an America-bound ship at Cobh and walked to Dublin.

Anyway, enough with history and all that stuff.  We launched our very own Fish and Chip Friday last week with more than 150 of you enjoying the dish washed down with complimentary Chablis for those on our mailing list.  The arrival of fish and chips celebrates our recent top ten inclusion in Fish2Fork, the UK restaurant guide for those who want to eat fish - sustainably.

I hope you enjoy our line-caught British Pollock, house-made chips and lovely mushy peas all in for £9.95, including newspaper.

Andrei