fishnchickn Colchester, St Johns in Colchester - Phone Number, Reservations, Reviews

Chips so squashed when wrapped then we’re just a mush. Saveloy tasted awful and was soft. Given 2 stars as the fish was cooked well, otherwise would have been a 1

Such a lovely man who delivered our food

Half the order missing, restaurant not interested. Freezing cold.

Chicken was over cooked, or kept warm too long. Not a delivery issue as only a couple of minutes from the restaurant.

no chicken delivered, not much help when calling them

delicious fish and chips, still hot when it arrived. would definitely order again!

Excellent service, friendly driver

Ordered large portions of chips which cost me nearly £10 and when I got the food home there was hardly anything inside.

Had chips and cheese burger delivered this evening, burger was poorly made falling apart and cold a few chips I had were Luke warm.. First and last order to this place 🙁🙁

Chips were lovely best I had in along time and service was great. £3 guy

Used to be a great fish and chip shop but tonight's dinner was far from good. A large cod was really only a small, was dry, luke warm and had not much fish in the batter. The mushy peas had an unpleasant bitter aftertaste and could not be eaten. V expensive for what I got

The driver said sorry for the wait but I had problems with the car … the food was cold .. who wants to eat cold chips .. seriously for £30 I wished I had got it myself

Food has gone downhill here... 😕

Chips were black and inedible and fish not very pleasant. The person service did not really listen to my friend

Great food always buy from here from now on

Unfortunately, they do not serve cod roe

Ordered large chips and got a small

plus 45 mins late and delivered cold spite only living 3 ,oles away.

the food was lovely it's just real shame the food turn up little late .

2 hours we waited after expected time!!!

Efficient service and good food

Just Eat's 'estimated' delivery time was a complete waste of time, as it was constantly being put back. What's the point of an estimate that is continually changing? We eventually received our food 30+ minutes after the initial latest delivery time 'estimate'. The food was not hot enough for our liking but we ate it as we were very hungry by then

I would like to write a good review but unfortunately they left out one of the meals

A place of child hood nostalgia, its always great to treat yourself on a Friday. However the staff seem to be getting younger and with this comes ignorance and lack of service. Not to mention hygiene issues!! Watching a member off staff remove a hot dish from the warmer to then go out the back which is clearly visible to the public to them start mopping the floor and squeezing the bucket as they spilt oil on their journey out back, to then only return to the front to serve our food!!! When the disgusting lack of hygiene was mentioned it was greeted with loud exaggerated Huff's of and dismissive body language.

Haven’t ordered from St John’s for a while - nothing wrong with the food but Just Eat claimed to be “at the restaurant” for an hour. Placed order at 16:55ish for ASAP as was driving home with my toddler, meal didn’t arrive until almost 2 hours after confirmation and the estimated delivery time just kept re-adjusting. Rang St John’s who confirmed the order had been ready for a while and that the courier wasn’t there, despite the app saying otherwise. Recommended I request a refund - shame on you

Easy to order and kept up to date with delivery

Ordered battered sausage and received plain sausage. Even though informed of delays, disappointed that we had to wait so long for delivery.

Ordered a LARGE chips and Curry sauce. Firstly shocked at £7odd for those 2 things. Then to see the size of the portion. Absolute joke! Will not be returning.

2nd time I have ordered from here now and both times had lovely food , the burgers are so big and juicy perfectly cooked!

Tasty, and a great selection of veggie food for the other half, 10 / 10

Nothing to say really was all fine

Excellent food and can be trusted to deliver on time. My fav Fish and Chips on the area.

Very happy, 1st order. Chips and fish perfectly cooked.

Saveloy skin had come off - didn’t look very appetising! Never seen that before. Really shouldn’t of gone out like that!

Fabulous service. Food piping hot and chips lovely, big and freshly cooked. Courteous driver, and friendly. Thoroughly ejoyed meal.

First time ordering and food was OK. Chips were a but undercooked and fish was a bit greasy but tasty. Packing both fish on top of each other for delivery resulted in a soggy batter.

Time kept being changed and food was cold when it did arrive

But did not turn my order and I have go myself go fish and chips and I told the manager and where my order and I show my phone and the time and not turn up

This place is yet to disappoint. Each time I've been there, everything is on point, cooked freshly, well wrapped, steaming hot and very tasty. The fish is ALWAYS cooked just right and super flaky and the batter is perfectly light and crispy. Keep up the good work guys!!

£4.99 Hake & Chips is to die for 👌🏼

Normally very high quality but lacking today. The batter for the fish was soggy and chips were rather soft without any crisp.

Chips tasted off, no salt and vinegar as requested. Pie that hard I could have put it under the wheels of my truck and it wouldn't have rolled away. Peas nice. Ordered 2 cans of coke only got one! Needless to say the meal went in the bin will not be ordering from here again

Fish and chips were good . But holy jesus £24 !!

The delivery driver ate half of one of my portions of chips

The chips were nice. But I was shocked when I ordered a large chips, paid £4.45, and opened them up at home to find I had literally a large handful. Small portion sizes, beware.

Excellent service. Lovely and hot. Good portion sizes.

Excellent as always, great fish and chips and service for a reasonable price, banging stuff

Usually very good. But tonight delivery let them down. Tepid food not a good way forward

Not had fish n chips in a while so was looking forward to a treat. But Should of gone elsewhere. The food is not like it used to be here , we had dry tasteless chips, burnt pie and after taking a bite of the battered sausage realised it was still pink inside! No wonder no one else was in there at tea-time!

Service was great, but "large" fish wasn't large and was over cooked.

You make the best fish and chips! Thank you.

Arrived hot and on time. Friendly driver.

Worst chips ever and extremely expensive. No wonder I was the only customer at lunchtime.

Shocking piece of cod. Batter was quite hard and it was all batter and hardly any fish! Bad for £10.95. Chips are nice.

lovely food very tasty, however the price of the chips were very expensive and rather small considering i got a large?

As always food was fresh and hot. Service/delivery was fast and delivery instructions were taken notice of. 👍

This is probably now my favourite chip shop food is amazing!

Food was lovely, lovely chips and chicken burger, the packaging/bag was lovely

Ordered a large portion of chips but, received a small. Other than that, the food was lovely.

Used to be a very good chip shop, last night's experiance has put me off going there again. I ordered jumbo sausage in batter and chips, bur i think they had 'jedward' serving and endered up with a 'very' small portion of chips(which tasted awful) and a rather anemic sausuage in hardly any batter. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY IN THIS OUTLET.

Really impressed by how fresh and tasty our meal was! Would highly recommend and we will be ordering again!

Really good as always. Would always recommend this place.

Above an beyond great service from them

Arrived colder than previous times l have ordered considering l live quite near was surprised it took longer and was not piping hot.

Really disappointed :( delivery was very late so food was luke warm. Had rung twice prior to this to find out where our food was. Hubby had to spit a large amount of fish out as was just full of bones. No point ringing as would have to, no doubt, wait an awful long time for a replacement. This was a special treat as we had some money spare from pay day and at £35 it isn’t cheap so really gutted & feel very let down :(

Went there tonight and they offer half chicken and chips £4.99 on a Wednesday but tonight there was NO Chickens at all. So had haddock and chips and sausage in batter and chips. When I got home the chips where so bad they where rotten some where hard as well and the chips with the sausage in batter only 10 chips could be eaten What a waste of money the 4 lads that where there had NO customer service skills they where just talking and no care for service This was my local chippy but not anymore I will go else where Manager really needs to take control and get the lads more trained on customer service I will now let my friends and family know and tell them to go else where

To start was a very good chippy but last couple of experiences have been upsetting by not listening to what customer wants by getting order wrong and no care for customer service, hope it goes right for next customer because I am not doing anymore

Food was well over cooked and burnt

Took to long to deliver and they said it was on its way before the timing.

Best fish and chips and pies in the whole of Colchester, better than any restaurant in the area. Been going there for 5 years and it is always consistent with amazing quality. Went tonight and although they didn't have 2 pies they accommodated us with fish no extra charge. Staff always friendly and smiling even though they were extremely busy.

Freshly cooked, very quickly delivered, yet again an amazing delicious order. Highly recommended

The best chips and the fish really fresh!! 11/10 👍 we never go anywhere else!!! Would recommend highly!!

Worst chippy ever, as the chips are always dry like they been left for hours and they are pale. You can't even tell if they have been fried in oil, that's how dry they are. Real chips should be crispy on the outside and soft like mash on the inside.

This is the best I've been to in colch

Why did the app say it’s been delivered when it hadn’t even left the shop?

Great food and straight forward ordering

Haven’t been here in a long time and use to be my wife’s favourite. Very disappointed this time round, especially spending over £50. Half chips were cold and the cod obviously wasn’t fresh. Kids meal sausage was like rubber and had to throw away. Looks like I’ll be cooking later.

Not as good as we normally have from here, and prices have gone up a lot!

Chips were lovely curry sauce was amazing hot food kids loved their bartered sausage would definitely order again

First time ordering. Food was excellent, delivery time was fantastic. Some items had been forgotten on delivery, I called and they were sent out straight away. Staff on the phone extremely polite and apologetic, delivery driver returned very quickly and was also very apologetic. Definitely will be ordering again & definitely recommend 👍⭐️

Delicious! Never had any issues here - our Friday night treat!

Friendly service , food hot when we got home . Highly recommended

It was late but the restaurant did advise it was delayed so was still handled great

Missing food from order, not the first time either.

Been here many times. Never been disappointed. Great chip shop

Great customer service and quick responses with great food

New restaurant in our neighbourhood. Nice staff, fresh food, I wish them luck :)

Had fish and chips and pie and chips. Both fish and pie was nice . Chips how ever taste as if they had been sitting a while. dry and hard . Quite disappointing for a chip shop.

Food was good, both fish & chicken burgers, took 20 mins to get ready & large size chips not very generous

Sorry wont be coming back use to be amazing but now over priced, chips poor fish average onion rings perfect but overall very disappointed

Love fish n chicken the service was great. Couldn’t get any better!!! 😎

Parked right outside. Lovely and clean inside with pleasant presentation. I was served today by Josh who was very helpful. Been going here on and off since I was a child. I used to know it as Peggotty’s (not sure of spelling). Thanks👍🏻

Lovely food. Decent amount for a child’s meal aswell. Friendly delivery guy 5*

Lovely food as always , but my compliments are to the young man that delivered . He has delivered to us a couple of times and remembers who we are , toghight he asked how our dog was by name and just thought it was lovely that he remembered , such a lovely guy

Food was good , delivery driver was very friendly and polite

I ordered battered sausage meals and got unbattered

Always love getting fish and chips from here

Good quality fish and chips - never been disappointed. Friendly staff and good range of fish, chicken, halloumi, sausages, etc.

Always a good call, food is decent chip shop grub and the service/delivery is always spot on.

Lovely food and delivered on time.