Overall Rating:

3 out of 5

Golden Fish Bar not so golden, March 24, 2009
By sfindie

"2.5 STARS (food)
4.5 STARS (service)

My wife and sister-in-law arrived at 2:25PM, which left us about 5 minutes to eat as they close at 2:30PM. When I told the woman we'd read about how great the place was and that we were from the States, she kindly say us down with a 'you have to be finished by 3PM' comment. Fair enough.

We ordered scampi and chips, plaice and chips, and fish roe and chips. Now I love fish and chips and will go out of my way to get some good stuff, but this really let me down. Maybe we caught them at the wrong time, but I wasn't at all impressed with this place. The fish roe was a dinosaur egg-sized, American football-shaped chunk of goodness, except for the goodness part. I'm no roe lover, but my wife is and she was really put off by its weird texture, blandness, and dryness. We all loved the scampi and the plaice was average. The latter two had the right amount of crispiness, but again lacked the extra oomf I search for.

The decor of the pace was outdated, but I mean that in the best possible way. It was a treat to be there as you don't get many places with that much history in the states. The slight stinkiness of the table, outdate wall art, and rickety wooden benches made the experience quite worth the trek. I wish I could say the same about the food."