Chippers with a good reputation

Milky Moo · 05-05-2011 06:10PM

Badgermonkey wrote: »

Only visited once, chips were horrible, burger like pedigree chum and the place was grotty.

Joes in Irishtown kicked its ass imo, bag of chips the weight of your own head and they were crisp etc.

Subjective topic if ever there was one though.

Sir you could have insulted my mother and it would not have enraged me as much as that comment!

Azureus · 05-05-2011 06:15PM

Some like it hot, drumcondra.

Best chips ever!

And its nowhere near me, but worth the 20min drive!

kfallon · 05-05-2011 06:21PM

Azureus wrote: »

Some like it hot, drumcondra.

Best chips ever!

And its nowhere near me, but worth the 20min drive!

Some like it raw more like, hate that kip!

The chipper that used to be next to Kitty Kiernan's on Collins Avenue was beautiful, Italian owned! Loved their curry sauce!

If ever in Waterford check out the chicken fillet burgers in The Cleaboy

ElaElaElano · 05-05-2011 06:23PM

The Fairview Grill, surprisingly enough, in Fairview. Belissimo.

kfallon · 05-05-2011 06:25PM

ElaElaElano wrote: »

The Fairview Grill, surprisingly enough, in Fairview. Belissimo.

Don't they do a great egg burger?

Aoifey! · 05-05-2011 06:26PM

Everyone goes on about how great The Penguin is near me, but I'd take Jimmy Allen's chips anyday. Although the Penguin does have better sauces.

pragmatic1 · 05-05-2011 06:27PM

Soggy, greasy chips with loads of salt and vinegar rule.

Azureus · 05-05-2011 06:35PM

ElleEm wrote: »

Cafe Caira at the top if the pier in Howth, Dublin serve amazing fish and chips!

I must try there-chips on the pier in Howth is one of my fave things ever, but I always go to beshoffs!

kfallon wrote: »

Some like it raw more like, hate that kip!

Ive heard loads of people say they dont like Some Like it Hot, but its my fave place ever! Even caused me to hop off a bus for sneaky bag of chips once or twice!

saintsaltynuts · 05-05-2011 06:42PM

Mona Lisa in Crumlin is very good.

Degag · 05-05-2011 06:44PM

DrumSteve wrote: »

McDonalds chips FTW

Even when they are cold they are moreish... Like heroin.

Uggggghhhhhh, they're horrible even when slightly cold.

The_Kew_Tour · 05-05-2011 06:58PM

Lennox's in Cork. Have tried quite a few in Dublin but nothing beats it.

Dublin has actually got some shocking chippers. Pity cause great city otherwise:D

slavetothegrind · 05-05-2011 07:23PM

themadchef wrote: »

Chips, lol, dont go there, it's a Minefield.

Advice of the day: You should see your chips being cooked in front of you in a chipper.

Chips should be: Spud, chop, blanch, fry, serve. There are loads of "fúck with me" stages along that chain that makes for an inferiour end product. Good places tend to stay open though, so ive no idea how their chips can be so bad, and they stay so busy.

you have it there sir,
i saw a delivery into burdocks beside jurys christchurch, the chips were precut and bagged in clear plastic, not so fresh then?

for me the aprille in perrystown takes some beating

Duckworth_Luas · 05-05-2011 07:26PM

Paparazzo wrote: »

Does anywhere still use lard to cook their chips?

I don't even bother with the chips any more.

Deep fried lard for me.

murrayp4 · 05-05-2011 07:32PM

Burdocks in Christchurch is very poor. Soggy tasteless fish, ditto for the chips. Got mushy peas there once, may as well have been mushy soylent green.
Oh, and its pricey too.

aligator_am · 05-05-2011 08:46PM

Haha, all this talk of chips takes me back to my youth, my Ma was a real staunch Catholic, would always make fish and chips of a Friday, Jaysus I'd demolish a plate of that now:)

Also used to make Lemon Sole, nicest fish I've ever tasted but have never seen any chipper sell it

jesus_thats_gre · 05-05-2011 08:50PM

Tony's, Kierans and The Roma in Dundalk. Not a single chipper in Dublin come near any of them.

Quite the statement but myself and my mates have scoured half of Dublin so far. The chips up here are just consistently rubbish - as is the curry sauce.

slavetothegrind · 05-05-2011 08:54PM

i'm tellin ya jesus, get up to perrystown, beside the famous submarine bar and order in the chipper chicken and chip curry

you will not be dissapointed, nice chicken breast ( no ****ty bits) and lurvly curry sauce, not that crap that chineses use that goops up and crusts before your eyes!

Zimmerframe · 05-05-2011 08:57PM

McDonaghs Galway is the biz for me.

STIG83 · 05-05-2011 09:01PM

The Marian Takeaway in Waterford, yum yum

rossie1977 · 05-05-2011 09:10PM

five guys in the states, yummy

kumate_champ07 · 05-05-2011 09:13PM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

I lived in Glasgow for a while - great city - and the sterotyped, near mythical things you can get in chippers are all there, deep fried mars bars and deep fried pizza slices among them. Hardy stuff. I'd say if you want to dispose of an incovenient corpse in Glagow you just drop it off at a chipper and they'll deep fry and distribute it for you.

Anyway, best chippers for me are Dino's in Terenure, for the food and the immortalisation in song, Dionysus in London for the same reasons. I'll buy chips for the first person that can name both songs.

'The Boys are back in Town'

Kevin Duffy · 05-05-2011 09:15PM

Good man, that's one of them. You can have chips, but no salt and vinegar. That's worse than no chips.

Korvanica · 05-05-2011 09:16PM

The Premier in wexford... nommmmmm

onlyrocknroll · 05-05-2011 09:23PM

CHealy wrote: »

KC's, Douglas, Cork has an unbelievable reputation, and well deserved too. The crowds that would be coming out the door is something else. Iv even heard of Norries coming down for a taste.

Defo, when a chipper has a list of Bridgestone awards going back every year for a decade you know it's good.

How places in this country get away with selling frozen chips is beyond me?

Aarnikotka · 05-05-2011 09:29PM

Johnny Walker's in Waterford have smashing chips, except it's a rare evening when he's open!

Lennox's in Cork are tasty too... I love those things that are, I don't know, a kind of cheese and onion potato cake thing? If someone knows the name please enlighten me

Dead Kennedys · 05-05-2011 09:34PM

Macari's in Blanchardstown village do the best Fresh Cod and Chips I've ever had, not been disappointed yet!

orourkeda · 05-05-2011 09:36PM

Daegerty wrote: »

What is it with these places, everyone goes on about how such and such a place is supposed to have the best chips within a 100 mile radius, and all these famous people go there to get chips and it's the best place ever.

Then when I go there I get served a bag full of greasy spud-like substance that is more like soggy mash with a couple of dried out ould things in there vaguely resembling a chip. and everyone else who is there also gets the same sh1te as me

Then I go into some cheap ould place that is known for serving roadkill and order some chips and they turn out to be great, now the rest of the food they serve is probably sh1te but the chips are great.

do most people prefer their chips soggy, with too much grease and a few chips that have been left dry overnight thrown in?

And chips are?

Kevin Duffy · 05-05-2011 09:37PM

Aarnikotka wrote: »

I love those things that are, I don't know, a kind of cheese and onion potato cake thing? If someone knows the name please enlighten me

Is that in a ball? I mean shaped like a ball, not packaged like a Kinder Surprise

orourkeda · 05-05-2011 09:37PM

Dead Kennedys wrote: »

Macari's in Blanchardstown village do the best Fresh Cod and Chips I've ever had, not been disappointed yet!

Many is the night I've staggered out of the bell or the greyhound into the bould macaris

Aarnikotka · 05-05-2011 09:47PM

Kevin Duffy wrote: »

Is that in a ball? I mean shaped like a ball, not packaged like a Kinder Surprise

Shaped like a ball, yes. Approximately.

Although I've only eaten them twice I think and on neither occasion was I in possession of all my faculties

But damn they were good!

Chippers with a good reputation

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