The best bag of chips in Galway?

barone

i know its the city section but im gonna name luca's takeaway,bridge st athenry as the best (imo)
ive had chips all over galway
home made style chips,salt n vinegar...yummmmm, curry aint bad either, whats your favourite bag of chips?

Terrier

Nico's ClareGalway

inisboffin

Sit in, the Townhouse. Mc Donaghs and the pizza place opp Kebab house on Mary St are good too.

barone

mc donaghs are good chips alright

s_carnage

Don't like greasy chips unless it is 3 in the morning and at that time I'd eat anything but love China Garden chips. It's the Chinese in Wellpark.

McDonaghs imo. Loads of salt and vinegar.

Drool

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

Vinnies are fairly decent.

Wompa1

Vinnies and Bethlehem... maybe Bethlehem more so because they are so different

ourtrail

+ 1 for Nico's in Claregalway - chips are beautiful!

JONJO THE MISER

Burger Kings.

dr.bollocko

That Harry Fitz place on shop st. that opened recently does some pretty good chips.
That's of you like real fresh cut chips though. Not the frozen shoite they seem to peddle everywhere these days.

ben.schlomo

dr.bollocko wrote: »

That Harry Fitz place on shop st. that opened recently does some pretty good chips.
That's of you like real fresh cut chips though. Not the frozen shoite they seem to peddle everywhere these days.

+1 for Harry Fitz.
Had rotten ones in Pizza Shack last week, tasted like the oil had cooked about a million pieces of fish prior to my chips.

Vinnies.

Bad times when I used to live on dominic street!

jdee99

McDonaghs - had some today lovely!

JD

Mr Keek

'Marios' near Gleann na Ri out by Merlin park

TheCosmicFrog

Tried Harry Fitz' chips last night for the first time. Probably the best bag I've had in a while. Homemade, but cut thicker than McDonagh's/Vinnie's.

JohnCleary

I have a voucher for Harry Fitz - can't wait to give it a shot

squonk

+1 Harry Fitz!

jackthelad321

Kettle of Fish across from Buscar Browns is my fav. The guy who owns the place is sound out also

barone

ive not had harry fitz's or vinnie's ....:eek:

must remedy that

ben.schlomo

jackthelad321 wrote: »

Kettle of Fish across from Buscar Browns is my fav. The guy who owns the place is sound out also

Are you that guy??? If not then try finding the Kettle thread on here and see what most people think of it, its a disaster, bad food a lot of the time, woefully poor service from all bar one current staff member and a rotten attitude from the owner/ manager/ frier. And to make it worse it actually used to be good.

jackthelad321

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Are you that guy??? If not then try finding the Kettle thread on here and see what most people think of it, its a disaster, bad food a lot of the time, woefully poor service from all bar one current staff member and a rotten attitude from the owner/ manager/ frier. And to make it worse it actually used to be good.

Wow, I did not know all that. Well, i always thought their chips were really good, I used to live over Buscar browns and always got them, though that was around 3 years ago.

The Welsh owner fella always seemed sound to me, last staff girl I recall was a Polish girl who I found lovely.

I'll have to go in again and see what you mean, clearly if there is a whole thread open about it there must be something to it.

Someone posted about the China Garden, which i live beside now, don't remember thinking they were anything special but their 4-in-1s are tasty and giving me a bad stomach:D

AlanBr

JONJO THE MISER wrote: »

Burger Kings.

Haha good one!

TheCosmicFrog

ben.schlomo wrote: »

Are you that guy??? If not then try finding the Kettle thread on here and see what most people think of it, its a disaster, bad food a lot of the time, woefully poor service from all bar one current staff member and a rotten attitude from the owner/ manager/ frier. And to make it worse it actually used to be good.

Jaysus, their fish is mighty though. Much nicer than McDonagh's.

PomBear

Don't like Harry Fitz at all tbh, they were too oiley and too hard and didn't soak up vinegar at all.

Kettle of fish are nice but the portion is tiny for the price.

So, i'd have to say McDonaghs, other places are Nicos and that chipper near Ulster bank in Lisbaun

Madame Razz

Capones

/drool

biko

I'm going to get hammered for this but:
a) Mustard's skinny fries
b) MacDonald's

I like fries, not chips.

moonflower

biko wrote: »

I'm going to get hammered for this but:
a) Mustard's skinny fries
b) MacDonald's

I like fries, not chips.

Mustard do skinny fries? I'll have to try them, I love skinny fries.

My favourite chips vary, depending on what I'm having with them. If they're being loaded with salt and vinegar it's McDonaghs, if I want plain chips I'll go to Charcoal and if I want chips with sauce or cheese I'll get Kebab House or maybe Vinnies. Burger King and McDonalds are my favourite hangover chips.

ben.schlomo

biko wrote: »

I'm going to get hammered for this but:
a) Mustard's skinny fries
b) MacDonald's

I like fries, not chips.

down with that sort of thing.

jd007

Jack Jordans out in Doughiska

biko

moonflower wrote: »

Mustard do skinny fries? I'll have to try them, I love skinny fries.

They stopped doing them when they changed the menu a while back

Robbo

Madame Razz wrote: »

Capones

/drool

Really? Anytime I've got Capone's chips you can taste that the oil hasn't been changed in ages and there's a bang of fish off them.

Im not a big fan of the type of chips served in McDonaghs and other similar places, too thick and greasy and you never feel right after them.

To be honest if having plain chips, i.e. not taco or curry etc Id chose McDonald's over anything, they are lovely.

kc66

I would love to travel the 120 miles from here just to have some McDonaghs chips + curry sauce and chicken.

ben.schlomo

marcusgunn wrote: »

Went there once about 6 yrs ago. Had garlic chips. Found a thick black pubic hair in my garlic sauce within a few seconds.
Wouldn't be easily put off my food, but this was stomach churning.

Never been back

that post should have had a health warning, i was just about to make some food, gonna give it a while now. :eek:

gandroid

Had McDonagh's recently, great chips have to say...proper chips as opposed to fries. It's shameful they import their cod though.

Placebo Effect

gandroid wrote: »

Had McDonagh's recently, great chips have to say...proper chips as opposed to fries. It's shameful they import their cod though.

All Cod is imported ...very little fish got off these shores anymore.

gandroid

Placebo Effect wrote: »

All Cod is imported ...very little fish got off these shores anymore.

Oh there's plenty fish caught off these shores, it's just that Irish trawlers are not allowed to land much of it.

Placebo Effect

gandroid wrote: »

Oh there's plenty fish caught off these shores, it's just that Irish trawlers are not allowed to land much of it.

So how are McDonaghs supposed to sell Irish Cod?

gandroid

Placebo Effect wrote: »

So how are McDonaghs supposed to sell Irish Cod?

By sourcing it here.

Madame Razz

Robbo wrote: »

Really? Anytime I've got Capone's chips you can taste that the oil hasn't been changed in ages and there's a bang of fish off them.

They've been very good of late....

GuessWho2009

ive never got the fuzz with mcdonaghs, ate there a few times, average. chips okay, like ya would get in most places e.g nico's , la salsa, vinnies, norio's. chicken want great. prefer supermac's

magentas

the chips in bar8 are unreal!

but for a normal bag of chippies I'd have to say McDonaghs even though most galwegians I know hate it!

kebeb house curry cheese chips nyom nyom

Placebo Effect

gandroid wrote: »

By sourcing it here.

Not viable unfortunatley.

gandroid

Placebo Effect wrote: »

Not viable unfortunatley.

In terms of price? Or what do you mean? It may well be an economical issue but if more Irish businesses helped their own and insisted on Irish produce (including fish) maybe our fishing industry could lobby for a fairer quota of what is our fish and support more jobs....anyway sin scéal eile as they say...and this thread was about chips in Galway I believe!

Mr Keek

Mr Keek wrote: »

'Marios' near Gleann na Ri out by Merlin park

Do you mean "Norios"?

joeKel73

Harry Fitz for me. Although they're less than half the size from when they opened! Still a good feed for one in them though.

Placebo Effect

gandroid wrote: »

In terms of price? Or what do you mean? It may well be an economical issue but if more Irish businesses helped their own and insisted on Irish produce (including fish) maybe our fishing industry could lobby for a fairer quota of what is our fish and support more jobs....anyway sin scéal eile as they say...and this thread was about chips in Galway I believe!

Manufacturers like Donegal Catch actually import most of their fish , it's processed here therefore they're entitled to call it Irish, All the big Irish distributors import the majority of their fish from the Nordic countries, sad but true, so McDonaghs really have no chance ...nice chips though

Owldshtok

Anyone tried that new place JD's Kitchen in middle street?
they've a logo that looks like cap'n birdseye

barone

had cod n chips on friday in harry fitz, cod was nice size,batter was lovley, chips were grand,7 out of ten for the chips, a tad undercooked

SlipperyPeople

had harry fitz on saturday after a few drinks hanging around the main stage for the latin festival...thought it was poor to be honest chips were way undercooked and my mates chicken goujons were burnt to a crisp...probaly wont head back there tbh