REVIEW LOCATION:
New Plymouth
Store: California Takeaways, 201 Coronation Ave.
Price: $6.70
Price: $6.70
Amount of chips: 2/5
Chip quality: 4/5
Size of fish: 4/5
Fish quality: 3/5
Total Score: 13
Well drained of oil?: Nup.
Satisfied?: Just as hungry as I was before I ate them.
Comments:
There are few things in this world more precious, more fulfilling, more genuinely heart warming than when the person you marry and have been with for most of your life looks you square in the eyes and says those magic words to you, "let's have fish and chips for dinner tonight".California Takeaways looks so awesome from the outside. The window sign writing, signage and chalkboard menu are pretty pro but it's juxtaposed with a sandwich board painted in white enamel paint with content poorly written in a fine tip vivid.
As soon as you walk inside you're greeted by a drastically different vibe. The walls are absolutely covered with posters of the All Blacks in some bizzare obsessive way that made me feel weird. Like they were trying way too hard to let their customers know that they love rugby. Something was just really off about it.
Behind the counter was about enough space to fit two upright kelvinator fridge freezers and it was impressively occupied by 5 staff members frantically buzzing around getting orders out. A squeaky kid on the register anxiously dealing with customers as a zen uncle up the back was zoning out while working the deep fryers solo. Was good to see that all 5 of them had already implemented masks in the workplace after NZ very recently moved to alert level 2 which has yet to be rolled out at surrounding businesses.
The chips were delicious but there were barely any of them. They could have done with a longer oil drainage time but were good other than that. I just wish there were more of them.
The fish was also delicious but again let down by oil draining and size. It was super thinly sliced.
This place got talked up to me and while yes it was pleasant on the tongue and on the wallet, they were greasy little hold outs to be very honest.
As soon as you walk inside you're greeted by a drastically different vibe. The walls are absolutely covered with posters of the All Blacks in some bizzare obsessive way that made me feel weird. Like they were trying way too hard to let their customers know that they love rugby. Something was just really off about it.
Behind the counter was about enough space to fit two upright kelvinator fridge freezers and it was impressively occupied by 5 staff members frantically buzzing around getting orders out. A squeaky kid on the register anxiously dealing with customers as a zen uncle up the back was zoning out while working the deep fryers solo. Was good to see that all 5 of them had already implemented masks in the workplace after NZ very recently moved to alert level 2 which has yet to be rolled out at surrounding businesses.
The chips were delicious but there were barely any of them. They could have done with a longer oil drainage time but were good other than that. I just wish there were more of them.
The fish was also delicious but again let down by oil draining and size. It was super thinly sliced.
This place got talked up to me and while yes it was pleasant on the tongue and on the wallet, they were greasy little hold outs to be very honest.
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