Desborough Fish Bar in Kettering

Better food in a Russian gulag I would imagine

Wow, the most fantastic food. We had heard about the shop from relatives and grandchildren, my wife tried it first with the grandchildren, she raved about it and persuaded me to try it. I was not sure as it a small back street establishment. What a surprise I got, the food is fabulous and so fresh. The staff were wonderful and jolly, the fryer was established at his work and knew exactly what he was doing. Would I go back, absolutely and have already recommended to friends. Truly the freshest and most moreish scrumptious fish and chips I have ever tasted.

Don’t bother whilst the service was great the fish and chips were as bad as you can get. Most of it ended up in the bin. Soggy batter tasteless fish and chips that were all stuck together. Feel that quantity over quality was the issue.

Chips are pretty ropey. The cod is questionable because I can’t say it is cod. No taste to it. The servers are a bit loud and rude. The prices for their deals are very good just a shame on the quality.

Staff always super friendly. Chrome always gleaming and super clean. Food nice and fresh. And those moni meals are amazing value at £2.99.

If I could give no stars i would absolutely the worst chip shop in England greasy batter and dry fish chips disgusting, staff look like they need a good wash and learn how to count, pay more attention to hygiene in the shop and not chat up men certainly will not go back and would ask people to avoid at all costs unless you want to be ill cant even batter a sausage

Recommended this chippie good food good everything.

Can't complain great chippy never misses and the kids love it

The best Fish and Chip shop in the county. We moved to Desborough from Cottingham and the Desborough Fish Bar is now only round the corner to our home. This is fabulous and we look forward to our pensioner portion of perfectly cooked fish and chips.

Excellent food and loads of it.

I've experienced many chip shops and I'd happily say this is the best. Their fish and chips are generous in size and taste amazing. Staff friendly and amazing.

They used to be good, but now the prices are much more expensive than other local chip shops (e.g. a large cod is £8, large chips £4.50, but the same are only £4.20 and £3 elsewhere), and unfortunately the portions are noticeably smaller than they used to be too.

Great chip shop, freindly staff and great food

Visited from Rothwell yesterday evening (Friday) which was busy with queues running out of the door in the wet weather, but I can understand why. The doner kebab and chips were lovely! I got a very generous portion in a large tray which was filled to the brim and wrapped neatly. Brilliant value for money at £8 for a large portion. I didn't realise it was cash only here until I stepped in so I had to nip to the Co-Op across the road to draw some money out, so if you plan to visit - bring cash. My fault on that however. There are two ladies and a gent who are very bubbly and friendly with the customers which makes the experience as a whole nice :) I would highly recommend, even if it's a 5 mile drive down the road!

Our usual place was closed so we tried Desborough Fish Bar. £17.70 for two fish and chips with a small curry and small mushy peas. The fish were tiny, more a child's portion and £5 each. A regular size, large on their menu, was £9 each. The batter was soggy and extremely pale, definitely not cooked properly. Large chips was £4.50. They even charged 20p for a small, flimsy bag to carry everything in. A very poor quality but expensive takeaway. We won't revisit.

Everyone knows this is the best chippy around. I moved to rothwell 8 years ago and I'd still make the trip down to Alex's every time without question

Best fish and chip shop for miles and so cheap ! Cod is £2.60!

Absolutely gutted! Usually one of the best chippy. Ordered 2 kids fish meals, chicken meat and chips and a large mixed kebab. Kids meal wouldn't feed a toddler. Chicken meat was given kebab meat, large mixed kebab was more like a small. Such small portions!

Do not by fish is dead dry and dry chips dead dry

Always a lovely kebab and big portions

Absolutely fantastic 🙂👍 The staff were amazingly helpful and very friendly and the food was banging!! A⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Allows excellent portion huge, great value, I do a 15 mile round trip because they are the best.

Best in the area by far, good sized portions of chips, the battered fish are huge, nice selection of other fast food, nice staff

Lovely experience with mandy and donna!! Friendly, nice to chat to while we waited for our fresh fish hot chips and kids meals! Loads of food for the family at a great cost. Will never go to a different chip shop again!

Great food , great portions, best fish for miles , staff are friendly and helpful , great value, and they gave free food to stranded Ukrainian truck drivers , outstanding

Very nice chip shop very friendly staff good portions ,and who would moan about a cone of chips not being right,someone yesterday did how sad

Great food great people, small chips could feed 4 people so great value! Friendly and helpful

Brill food friendly service with a smile always impressed large portions and good quality food highly recommended staff always happy and bubbly a pleasure as always

Brilliant place to eat, the food is absolutely gorgeous! Never fail to impress, and the lovely lady Mandy who works there is always so smiley, welcoming and polite. Well recommend.

Mandy and the ladies are lovely! Portion sizes are massive aswell!! Always have a good laugh when going in to get our food, and they absolutely love my son, always giving him treats. Best chippy in Desborough

Just AVOID !! Don’t know how people can say this is a 5 start chip shop I’m being serious it was inedible

Brilliant service always greeted with a smile by all staff portions are very generous highly recommend 5*

Upon entering what used to be my local chip shop.... I was behind 2 people I'm the shop and my phone rang, I answered as was important. Whilst on the phone the shop cleared only leaving my self and the ladies serving customers however if was still on the phone the ladies asked me if she could help 3 times whilst clearly seeing I was on the phone so I quickly ended the call... I then asked of she could see I was on the phone or not and was very very rude towards my self. Lost a customer here for sure !! Such a shame lovely chip shop as well

Huge portions, friendly staff, all round good old fashioned Chippy.

The best fish and chips in town, in my opinion! 👍

Huge portions. One fish and chips will feed two. I get the small £4 portions. More than enough. Great food

Great chip shop, generous servings of chips and always freshly cooked. Highly recommended.

Descent fish & chips, portions large and friendly atmosphere. If you like fish & chips give them a visit. You won't be disappointed.

Great friendly staff, fantastic value as well!!!

In all the years of using this chip shop have only ever had one off putting meal from here and that was only because they gave us curry sauce instead of mushy peas first class service and food

Staff are always friendly and welcoming, food is always great and always hot the time we get home would recommend to to anyone

Only had chips they were very nice

Manda's chips are the best around.

Enormous portions, always fresh, good value, friendly helpful staff

Nice friendly staff and helpful

Always friendly. Always good quality. Always big portions.

.very nice food staff brilliant

Fantastic food the best kebabs around.

I have been using Desborough Fish Bar for several years but have never left a review. A negative review prompted me a write a long overdue positive one. I like my fish very lightly battered and this is cooked for me to perfection. The chips are only cooked in relatively small batches to ensure that they hot and of good quality. On the very rare occasion that they have been of lesser quality the staff have resolved the problem immediately and without question. The service by the experienced team is cheerful, friendly and efficient. I never go anywhere else locally, this is excellent. I f you have a problem, tell them and they will fix it.

Fantastic chippy. Staff are friendly. Food is cooked to perfection

Brilliant chippy. Great food, massive portions, friendly staff.

Great service loads of chips ,covid organized

Popped in to grab some chips! Was greeted by the most lovely ladies (can’t remember your names) we had a couple of mins wait as they were making fresh chips, so we got chatting! All I can say is the 2 ladies who worked on Friday 14th Aug u are brilliant! Great sense of humour! Lots of giggles & great customer service! I’m not gonna lie...I enjoyed waiting in the chippy rather than being in the pub - it was a barrel of laughs! So not only were the ladies welcoming, funny & polite! But the food was fresh & lovely! Defo be going back!! Ps - covid rules were followed during this vist! :)

Always lovely and staff very friendly

Great food everytime, great happy staff

all great bunch of people's who work there really friendly and the food taste great

best chippy in Desborough-- always generous portions lovely staff n highly recommend 😋

Always impressed with cleanliness and staff conduct food very good

One of the few places still opening, keeping to social distancing and only allowing two people in at a time. Please be aware it's cash only, no cards

Amazing food fantastic service so friendly. Cant be beaten 10* in my opinion

Desborough Fish Bar is probably the best fish and chips shop in the universe! The ladies that look after you are really friendly, very helpful (I'll explain why shortly). The shop is super clean and tidy. The portions are amazing. And it's great value for your money. I was working on Station Road on Sunday, I spotted the local chippy, got all excited, couldn't wait for 4 o'clock to come round. Had a chat with my supervisor Phil (top man), we agreed that I could take my break just after 16:30, straight into the chippy, the lovely ladies greeted me and WOW! The biggest fish potions I've ever seen (nicknames the SHARK!). So big I asked the ladies (sorry I didn't get your names) if they could cut it in half, which they did (thank you). I ate some of the other half with chips and saved the other half to share for breakfast in the morning. Thank you so much for the best fish and chips I've experienced in ages. You're the bestest, brilliant xx

Great service, very friendly staff and best of all delicious food.

Whatever you want to order make sure that you order small. Portions are large. Too much to eat. Very generous. Kebabs are superior to any other in town

Lovely traditional fishshop - enjoy.

Best fish and chips in the area. Go hungry, the portions are big!

Very generous portions with good quality food and options. The place is clean and has friendly staff. Always a pleasure to return. Highly recommended !

Best fish and chips by far fantastic service fantastic service always a pleasure to visit will definitely use again without a doubt

The portions of chips are pretty large but the quality of the chips leave a lot to be desired. You can tell they are pre cut and frozen. The fish batter isnt exactly gourmet either. All in all its ok

great portion size and nice tasting food

This is deffo the place to eat 🐠🐟

The best fish and chips around ... By far.

Did enjoy food on our trip but service was laking someone quite rude in fact and felt rushed and hurried through the entire process of ordering and taking our food will try again just to see if improves

Great food and great staff especially the owner Alex, top bloke

Only place for fish and chips massive piece of fish

Not long lived in desborough so decided to try this chippy. Wow what massive portions you get here!! Not complaining and glad to see portions aren’t limited. Wide range of food available and we thoroughly enjoyed the chips, sausage and pies. Prices and meal deals are well priced too. Glad this is on our doorstep and will be back again (when I’m not on a diet!!)

Great food and lovely staff! Highly recommended fish and chip shop

Tried the large portion of cod, it seemed nearer whale and chips so excellent value. The staff were very busy on a Friday evening but maintained a fast and efficent and friendly service.

This is the best chip shop in the town - the staff are always welcoming and friendly and they have huge portions. We order a large fish and chips and it feeds 4 of us - they really have fillets the size of an average persons thigh! (If you eat all the fish, you'll soon be bigger!!!) We look forward to our bi monthly visits here :)

Popular place, friendly quick service

Tried this as town firar shut in rothwell. Lovely fish and chips and dare I say better than town firar of late

Best fish and chips around by far! Staff really friendly!

Amazing value and quality food. lovely service from mandy & allison definitely recommend and will br coming back

Great food lovely service from the girls food for all the family even the fussy eaters best chippy around

Always fab fish n chips, the best, served with a smile

Best fish and chips in town. Friendly helpful staff, open on Sundays too! Near to co-op supermarket, school and post office.

Great fish and chips in generous portions

honestly id hate to break it to ya but the quality of the so called co was overly salty an under cooked in nature, the staff are rude and unhelpful and look like working there is a terrible burden,chips taste as if there have been deep fried in a homeless mans urine

It's nice little chip shop chips realy nice I'll definitely go bck there

Best in Town!! This shop far exceeds others in the area and the portions are massive and cooked well. A whale from them is a real treat.

On our return journey home from doing a bit of shopping in nearby Market Harborough we decided to give the Desborough Fish bar a return visit.

Recommend tasty large portion and lovely stuff

Always a pleasure in here. great staff.

Best fish and chips for miles 😁😊

really painful, you can not pay with the ATM and are not equipped for anything to eat ... without glasses to drink and cutlery to eat ... shameful.

Been coming here for years always great fish & chips .

Massive portions. Nice friendly staff...

Have been using this place for many years and am sad to say seen a steady decline in quality of their fish and batter. Lately the fish seems to have shrunk while the thickness of the batter seems to have compensated. Tonight’s freshly cooked offerings were not good, supposedly COD and Chips the fish was dark and quite ‘strong’ tasting, thin and ridged inside overly thick and soggy batter. Not at all appetising. Last week on Friday we visited hoping being busy would improve freshness and quality but no, the fish was the same and the batter was dried and chewy.

Very generous portions and very tasty

Large potions and nice an fresh, be qarned sometimes get order wrong

really good food, great friendly service, recommended