It’s a sad reflection on what I suppose is our national dish that, so often, it will be very, very mediocre. So often, they will have batch fried the fish, keeping it warm on a steamer shelf which means that, unless it’s sold very quickly, the batter will lose its crispness. The trick, which is not guaranteed to work, is to know which fish is the popular one in the area - cod or haddock - and then order the other one. It should mean it’s freshly cooked.
Maybe the same place, Peter, but I also had an awful chippy lunch in Brighton. It was back in the days when I posted on egullet and soemone had recommended the chippy on the pier. But that was closed the day I went , so I went to somewhere just near the pier. Horrible, by any standard.
