The Traditional Chip Shop - Bondi Beach

The traditional chip shop is a fish and chips restaurant on Bondi beach that serves authentic style food very similar to that served at Fish and Chip shops in the UK and Ireland. <br/  <br/ The restaurant is attractively decorated, and has a range of tables and chairs, both inside and outside in a covered patio. The range of menu items is large, going beyond fish to chicken, pies, sausages and a wide range of sauces.  <br/  <br/ Service is counter style. it is prompt, friendly and polite. I have visited twice this trip and once before, always around lunchtime. <br/  <br/ I ordered Pie and Chips because I like British/Australian pies more than fish. Both were great. <br/  <br/ This restaurant gets a 5 star from me because it is very authentic to my experiences growing up in England. Especially the chips are great large, crispy but also soft and fluffy. British style chips are quite unlike chips that are served elsewhere. They are closer to what is called 'fresh cut ' fries in the USA, but still very different from that. That makes the food here very different from the inauthentic stuff that counts as 'British fish and chips ' in most places I go.  <br/  <br/ I notice a few critical reviews here, and this reminds me of the dilemma for anyone trying to run an authentic foreign restaurant. The truth is that for a restaurant to survive, it has to have lots of local people who want the food to be truly authentic. But more often the route to success is to gradually adjust the food to be less authentic and to match local tastes and desires more closely. That is a difficult tension for a restaurant to resolve, and I notice that this chain has gone from several locations to just one in the few years since I was last in Australia. <br/  <br/ Based on my life experience, this is a great, highly authentic restaurant, just like the UK and Irish notion of fish and chips. If that 's what you want, I am sure you will be very happy.

I ended up in this place just by chance but it was one of the greatest fish and ship experiences I have had outside of Borough Market in London. I dare say that Bondi was better because of the OUT OF THIS WORLD cheese sauce. Honestly if Bondi was the same distance to me as NY city I would have gone there twice annually just for the fish and chips and the shrimp and chips. As a tourist I didn't find the price to be high and I liked the funk rock star attitude of the women that served my wife and I. Place was a 10 on that Sunday evening last November PRO TIP: Once its all digested head straight for the Icebergs...pay the nominal access fee and and just relax after a good meal against a great backdrop with the pool, waves and all that.

Lovely small fish and chips shop along the main beach strip at Bondi. Service was friendly and the store looked clean and modern. There is a few tables and benches for seating but why not enjoy your meal across the road so you can take one of Australias most iconic beaches. Oh I should mentioned the food which I rated high but the prices were a bit higher (just under $20 fish) than what I usual get fish for but this I would say is because you are paying for much higher quality produce.

I have been waiting to eat fish and chips all week while I am in Sydney and I see this shop everyday as we walk to the train station.

More appropriately it should be named "Greasy Traditional Chip Slop".