Best Fish and Chips in Melbourne

[Daughter of the West]

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Same goes for Westmeadows

The one next to the "Old Broady" Milkbar? If it's the one and the same, that used to be awesome! Haven't been back there for years and years though.

[Desipura]

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(and no my family aren't Greek, they are Cypriot Turks)

Mine are, you got a problem with that?

[Bulldog4life]

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Rosebud Seafoods 4/967 Point Nepean Road, Rosebud is our best local fish n chip shop. Great Fish and Chips and the best dim sims in Rosebud too. If you are ever visiting the peninsula and want a great feed you know where to go.

[chef]

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I suggest everybody has a go at making your own, better than anything you can buy in a shop and not very hard to do.

I do an awesome beer battered Murray Cod with triple cooked chips and serve it with some home-made aioli and a rocket and red onion salad.

[jazzadogs]

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That's what happened to Jungle Jim's in Vermont South. When the Greeks owned it it was top 10 in the best fish and chips in Melbourne then it was taken over by the Asians and it has gone downhill.

Jungle Jims has improved since it first got taken over...took them a while to figure out what they were doing. Captains Choice is the family choice these days though.

[Eastdog]

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Jungle Jims has improved since it first got taken over...took them a while to figure out what they were doing. Captains Choice is the family choice these days though.

Have you tried Hook, Line and Sinker Fish and Chips in Glen Waverley.

[chef]

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Love this thread -- the best places to eat in Melbourne cannot be found in the Age Good Food or Cheat Eats guides, which tend to be written by and for a very narrow yuppie/hipster subsection of society. The best places are all local, very uncool joints surviving on word of mouth and kept secret by loyal patrons who don't want to be crowded out by pretentious hipsters discovering the latest thing. I've always found these places through discussions like these or tiny uncool food blogs. Tried a couple of the suggestions above, and they were pretty good (7-8 out of 10 range).

I'll keep my top 2, very local, very uncool places secret for now (we call the guy who runs one of them 'the professor' as he is so careful about how he handles his fish and he looks like he's working in a lab with his white coat and spectacles), but a third one that is out of town is the joint in Airey's Inlet (I think there's only one there). I haven't been there in a couple of years, but everytime I've been down there over the last 15 years or so the fish has been been melt in your mouth fresh and creamy.

Hi Lantern

Can't agree with that. It's a bit of a bible for someone like me and comes in very handy when traveling.

[azabob]

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I'll keep my top 2, very local, very uncool places secret for now (we call the guy who runs one of them 'the professor' as he is so careful about how he handles his fish and he looks like he's working in a lab with his white coat and spectacles),

But why? Are you afraid it will be over run with bulldogs fans?

Also when is now over so you can tell us.

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Archies in Burwood (Ashwood?) have great chips but the hamburgers are soggy.

[Bornadog]

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I suggest everybody has a go at making your own, better than anything you can buy in a shop and not very hard to do.

I do an awesome beer battered Murray Cod with triple cooked chips and serve it with some home-made aioli and a rocket and red onion salad.

Whats the recipe for your batter. I can never get it right.

[GVGjr]

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Archies in Burwood (Ashwood?) have great chips but the hamburgers are soggy.

Barlyn street Mt Waverley near the corner of Huntingdale and Highbury roads?

[Sockeye Salmon]

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Barlyn street Mt Waverley near the corner of Huntingdale and Highbury roads?

That's the one.

[Eastdog]

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There was a Fish and Chips place down in Queenscliff that was really good but I can't remember the name of the place.

[jeemak]

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Arthur's at Lum Road Shops used to be awesome from the early 80's through to the mid 90's when they decided to give it away. I swear the guy would buy a new yacht after every Good Friday!

They covered everything perfectly, and when I moved out of the area in 2001 it had picked up a bit after being taken over by a Greek family for the few years prior.

There's been a trend in Asian business people taking over fish 'n' chip shops over the last decade, and I think the general stereotyping of classic fish 'n' chip shop ownership from the populace has sold them short in terms of being able to produce quality goods compared to their Greek predecessors. Like any FnC experience, it can be very hit and miss no matter where you go or who runs it, but one thing I will say since sampling souva's from the shops run by Asian owners is they really know how to whip up a ripping garlic sauce. They don't get lazy and bust out the Tzatzici because it'll do.

[Doggy]

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The one next to the "Old Broady" Milkbar? If it's the one and the same, that used to be awesome! Haven't been back there for years and years though.

That's the one.

There is another one across the road called Fish Eyes which is pretty good. It's owned and operated by a guy who was runner up In My Restaurant Rules Melbourne a few years back.