Marino's Fish Bar in Maidstone

I never write reviews, but I feel compelled to talk about the simply incredible service I had today from Marino's. I ordered online because I'm lazy like that. Unfortunately, Just Eat were being absolutely useless. The food was delayed because they couldn't get a driver. I got a call from the owner herself to update me and apologise. The restaurant had prepared my order 3 times while waiting for the promised driver in order to ensure my food was fresh, and I suspect possibly a fourth time after our call. It was instantly obvious, talking to the owner, that she cared greatly about the quality of their service and food. Eventually a driver materialised and I received my food hot and fresh and absolutely delicious. I have ordered from Marino's a few times and never had delivery issues and the food has always been amazing. As if all that wasn't enough, a hand-written apology as well as a bottle of Prosecco came with the order once it arrived. Absolute above-and-beyond service. Cannot praise and recommend these guys enough. 10/10

Amazing staff who show concern for their customers. Food always good. Smiles and laughter shared always

My visit was just after the August Bank holiday. It's a fab little chippy that I spotted by chance tucked behind the golden arches whilst walking back to my hotel. The guys were brilliant, friendly, chatty, funny, and provided me with a superb supper. It was just the ticket having walked too many miles on the Shaun in the Heart of Kent Sculpture Trail. I opted for a small, plain sausage and chips, which I sat and ate a short distance away at the river front (River Medway). As a bonus, they were skin on chips, too!!! Just perfectly cooked, crisp on the outside, soft and fluffy inside, and not at all greasy. Throughly enjoyable. Great value for money.

Last minute treat, simply stunning haddock and chips on a summers evening sat by the river. Seriously one of the best, fish was without doubt the freshest crispiest I've had

Excellent service! Wonderful staff! The fish and chips were amazing! Will visit again when I come back to the UK. ~Lots of love from Tennessee ❤ P.S. Do you deliver? Lol

First time at this chip shop, very friendly staff freshly cooked food, the best chip shop in Maidstone lovely fish and chips!

Wonderful cod and chips. White soft tangy flesh on the fish was lovely. So tasty. Was still piping hot when I got home. Very generous portion of delicious chips. Couldn't eat them all mainly because I was poorly with a migraine. Finished off the chips next morning for breakfast and they were just as nice cold. Really nice owners. Lovely couple.

Best chippy in maidstone! Freshly cooked to order, generous portions and yummy!! 10/10

This has to be the best fish and chip shop in Maidstone. Great friendly service great food. Allways quick.

The best fish and chips by far in Maidstone, first time a couple of weeks ago, and I won’t be going anywhere else from now on I had cod and chips my daughter had burger and chips both very nice would definately recommend.

Best chippie in Kent, hands down. Always a warm welcome, fun, friendly, great bants. Food is always hot and perfectly cooked - a must visit!

Love there food it's simply the best

Fantastic fish and chips So fresh and tasty!! Crispy batter and lovely chips swathed in salt and vinegar. My favourite Friday night treat after a long week at work. The staff couldn't be nicer. Friendly and lots of banter. It makes you realise humans still exist in this way. Ones who can't still have a chat, ask you how you are and make you feel welcome. Can't recommend this place highly enough. So often I have been let down with greasy chips or soggy batter! Not here. Give it a try and support a great British tradition and a welcoming , hard working family business 👏

Best Fish and Chips great service lovely family. These are the kind of places you pray stays for generations. Keep up the great work guys. We love your food and your service Just Brilliant. Rudi "The Indian South African"

1st timer, 1st customer as you opened up we had 2 X open chips. And we can safely say they were the BEST chips we have had in a long time even better then chips from the seaside 😀 lovely guy serving and super friendly. we will be back 🥳🍟

Chicken Stripes one of the best I've had so far! Nice crisp, cooked to perfection in my opinion, they're nice juicy inside and well seasoned! Fish and Chips was AMAZING too and so the rest of the food!

Best chip shop in Maidstone by far, Very friendly staff, food is perfect and generous portion sizes

Loved our chip shop chips and making sure we got the all important scraps / batter bits - super important as a Yorkshireman!

Must have changed ownership since i last been here, no longer have fish and chip shop chips, disappointed.

Best chippy around pensioner fish chips big portion best sausages service great friendly banter make you feel welcome lovely hot food good value well done guys lov3 cath xx

I had a great experience tonight. The food was piping hot and delicious. The kindness of the lovely people working there is unmatched. Thank you.

Hadn’t used Marino for about 6 years, but have to say the fish and chips was easily the best I’ve had for ages. Service is prompt and friendly. Would definitely recommend.

Put in a telephone order, said I would be about 5 mins, wandered in, place was full, lovely banter, had to wait maybe 2 minutes. Great food great staff. Fact

First time we had fish-and-chips and it was delicious! A real concurrent for the Belgian fries 😋👌

Great customer service. Always fresh food, tasty and amazing quality, very good value for money. Best chipshop! Highly highly recommend… ☺️

My first time here and I’m seriously impressed. Even though the place was packed they got through orders quickly and still had time to be friendly and have a laugh with every customer. Food was absolutely delicious - crispy, fresh, well cooked and packed. The best cod and chips I’ve had in years by far. The only chippy I’ll be visiting from now on, see you soon guys!

Fantastic local fish n chips shop. The owner is friendly, and so are the rest of the team. It's probably the best fish n chips in Maidstone. Cooked fresh and always tasty and value for money. They offer an OAP size for which is perfect for my folks. Family favourite fornfish n chips to take away.

Food delicious. Never had a bad meal from here. Highly recommended.

So went here again recently after much persuasion after being left disappointed. This time couldn’t fault it chips were excellent especially loving the Greek chips. All the food we ordered was fresh hot and good quality.

Been using for many years and will use for many more food is always fresh and the staff are very friendly. Very highly recommended

I really liked the restaurant, a varied menu, delicious dishes.

since having a baby we’ve swapped swigging stiens down bierkeller to fish and chip friday from this lovely establishment. Highlight of the week now! Lovely food all cooked fresh to order, staff are welcoming and the banter is there! Generous portions too not like the scabby pots of curry sauce you get in some places that wouldn’t even be editable after swigging them stiens down bierkeller. More fool them people queing up for a McDonald’s when you have this a stone throw opposite! One of the only places that actually do a spam fritter too! Not even expensive too. Looking forward to next Friday already 🎣🍟

Excellent cod chips and scampi. Freshly cooked to order. First class.

Great portion size and a good variety of food staff are friendly best chip shop in the town I've used them for years

I'm a regular customer.the food was fantastic as always but the boss looked like he had to much to drink night before

Very good service and the owner always happy good fish and chips shop

Used to get fish n chips from here and had a good rapport with the staff as we went here every week. Sadly, we stopped and will not go back because of bad customer service. Shame because the situation could have been easily resolved.

I have lived away from Maidstone for a long time (over 20 years) and I never forget Marinos. No fish and chip shop anywhere can better it. That's a fact! Went again at the weekend and it was as awesome as usual and the staff were as friendly as ever. I'm a bit biased as I think memories flood back being in there as a child and after a few drinks when older but i love the place and the accents. A maidstone bastion. Pretty much always a queue. Says it all. Hope its there for decades to come.

Excellent cod without the skin. Yummy 😋 Thank you guys 🙏

Best fish and chips in Maidstone.

What can l say yet again a superb fish and chips best in the town and so missed when you had to shut because of a building problem. Ps tried another chip shop when you was closed and well............. no comparison

I was very disappointed with this place. The fish was over cooked, hard around the edges because of this and grey, the chips were undercooked…hard, the onion rings were very undercooked..tasted of raw batter..and everything was extremely greasy….it went in the bin. Even the cat wouldn’t eat the fish. Yuck. I reviewed on JustEat and they left a reply which has been bugging me ever since. They said I reviewed them by mistake and I was thinking of somewhere else, with a laughing emoji like it was funny I was so thick. This is impossible as I didn’t order from anywhere else and JustEat give you the option to review only from the place you ordered food from! Rude, telling me they had 31 years experience…well one would think that they could cook a bit of fish and some chips very well by now then…apparently not! It’s that kind of response that makes people boycott places. Which I will. Never again. If you accept that mistakes are made and apologise then that’s one thing, but to accuse your customers of basically being stupid and wrong is out of order. Terrible. If I could give no stars I would. Update…you can all see the reply…I rest my case. Do they think I’m lying? What would that achieve? Why didn’t I bring it in to show them…because I am housebound ….why didn’t I contact them..because I left a review instead and frankly didn’t see the point in calling them as I didn’t want any more food from them to replace the horrible stuff they sent out..trust gone! They also said it couldn’t have been them I ordered from because I ordered at 4:45pm but they don’t open until 5:00pm…it’s called ordering in advance, an option sometimes provided. You would think they know that. They obviously will say anything to divert attention from the content of my very honest review. I repeat..the food was inedible, grey overcooked fish..so over cooked that the batter had pulled away from the fish on one side, and raw chips and onion rings, like really raw. If they say they cook the chips and fish and the same time then I can only call BS on that….what is the fish sitting in the cases then? That’s already cooked! This must have been sitting out for a while to be so disgusting. My granddaughter could have made a better job of cooking this and she is 9. Rude people who don’t except their mistakes. How awful to talk to a customer like they have..well an ex customer now. Anything else Marinos? Bring it on….

Quality, classic fish and chips. Nice staff.

Best fish and chips I've had for a while

Ordered several fish suppers recently. Fresh and tasty!

Best place in Maidstone for fish & chips, the only shop I ever use. Been a customer for 20 years + Food always cooked fresh and served how I prefer 😉. Keep up the good work guys, your doing great 🤩

Lovely fresh fish and chips as always. Phoned order through then collected.

Top quality food, well cooked and served with a smile with no single use plastic in sight. Even better, I walked passed the golden arched place to get there. I'll recommend this place to anyone.

Great family run fish shop. Top quality food with a top quality service 👌

Best fish& chip shop around ….beautifully cooked food …always fresh …generous portions…always hot and cooked then and there …brilliant friendly staff …who are happy to have a chat …and a bit of banter ..a lovely couple ….who make you feel welcome..we will be back again soon …as we will only only use you 💕

Lovely service and freshly made fish and chips

Came here last week for the first time in ages. Great chips and the batter on the fish bites was the best I’ve had in a while - nice and crispy and fresh tasting! Sausage and saveloy weren’t bad either. Guys behind the counter were welcoming and up for a chat which was nice. Good to see this place is still going strong after so many years.

Very good value chip shop, very friendly staff. A large portion of chips is actually large!

Superb Fish and Chips. Freshly cooked, large portions and also very friendly staff. Definitely be going back in the future.

Excellent chippy. Great and friendly service. Good portions. I'll be back.

Thought I’d try this fish and chip shop for lunch and wow best chips and curry sauce I’ve had from a shop before chicken burger was great a real breast not all processed and put together. Fish cake was massive and very tasty. Will 1000% be returning thanks

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Absolutely brilliant, great service, fresh, hot, good sized portions. Recommend the cod bites...yummy

Amazing fish and chips and great service from the 3 mouchoteers

Lovely fish and chips piping hot. Couple very friendly. Highly recommend this chip shop. From the ladies from Dover

The best fish & chip shop in Maidstone! They cook the food fresh and the service is friendly and efficient. You won’t regret a trip to eat here it’s amazing!

Love this fish and chip shop great food and two minutes away

Lovely fresh fish and generous portion of chips. Couple who run the place are lovely too, a real gem of a place

Lovely food and very friendly staff.

Lovely little fish and chip shop, good size portions and friendly service

Absolute delicious food!! Beautifully battered cod and large portions, chips chunky and full of flavour.. really recommend this place to anyone!!!

Brilliant staff, great food, good value

Marino's is a family-owned business that is an oasis of quality in a sea of mediocrity. Proper old-fashioned chippy, food cooked freshly to order, well packaged in recyclable paper and cardboard, so it stays hot on the journey home. Friendly owners provide a true community service that is so well appreciated and so rarely found these days.

Friendly and helpful staff. Good food, decent sized portions, reasonable pricing.

Best bit of fish I've had in ages

We have had fish and chips delivered several times during lockdown. I have to say Marino's from Hart Street are the best. They arrive really hot and beautifully cooked. And the very best thing is, no polystyrene trays, all recyclable cardboard

Delicious food, big portions and lovely staff!

Fantastic food. Fresh and crispy fish with great chips. Regular portions are very generous.

Excellent foods and really nice people

Best fish 🐟 and chips 🍟 in Maidstone

Just had our first delivery, we usually call & pick up, but standard was just as excellent & piping hot ! THE BEST fish & chips in Maidstone !! Delicious perfectly cooked cod, haddock & chips with curry sauce & mushy peas - thank you !

Such a good atmosphere and the fish is always cooked fresh infront of you. The fish is succulent covered with batter to die for.

I live local and this fish bar is a little gold mine, the food is first class and the staff are even better, warm friendly atmosphere with great food well recommended 👍👍👍

This has to be my all time favourite family run Fish and Chip shop, the staff are so friendly, the food is excellent especially the Haddock, and they keep a very clean establishment. They also do the largest unsalted spam fritters, naughty but nice.

Just had a delivery from here and I’ve got to say it’s definitely the best cod and chips I’ve had for a long time. Food great and delivery was quick. We couldn’t fault it. Thank you

When i asked for a large portion i thought there will be some left for my cat, not that i could feed a family of four. Recommended to me by other people and they were definitely right about it. Fresh and tasty.

Hands down the best fish and chips in Maidstone. Very generous portion, lovely crispy batter, perfectly cooked flaky fish - what more could you want? Thank you Marino’s - it was scrumptious

Haddock cooked to order. Fresh, melt in the mouth, with light crispy batter. Old school service. Recommended.

Cod bites and chips - an absolute must!! Cooked fresh to order .... fresh flakey cod in a lovely light batter and full of flavour .... very friendly guy serving in a Covid secure way ... highly recommended perfect portion as well !

A great chip shop really good food, and friendly service

The only place to purchase fish and chips class highly recommend Tried the rest not as good no where near 🙏

Very good service and tasty food...good portions too

Found Marinos by chance. Large haddock so tasty, light batter and cooked to perfection! Generous portions, great value for money. Immaculately clean premises and welcoming, friendly owners. Can recommend and will visit again next time in the area!

People if you want to know a secret, then marinos fish and chips is the place to be. Great friendly people, who are happy to engage in conversation. Fish and fish batter are second to none. Huge amounts of chips prices are good, plenty of choice, people's you won't be disappointed. Parking is awkward, double yellow lines, but you can park just outside.

Thank you for the most amazing fish and chips and best value for money fantastic friendly couple we won't go anywhere else for our fish and chips 😀

Just had large cod and chips from here and have to say the best fish and chips I’ve had for quite a while. Large cod was huge and both fish and chips tasty and cooked well. Staff very friendly. Will definitely visit again. Thanks guys

I spend far too much in here but how can I not when the food is good and the staff awesome? Most visits feel more like visiting old friends.

Dropped in for fish & chips. Must say still the best chippie in Maidstone good value too £13.00 for 2 cod 1 portion of chips, hot and tasty

Always had the best there great service n amazing food

Brilliant experience excellent staff and food

Large portions, chips were good and fish was absolutely perfect - never had fresher. The batter was crisp without being greasy. Better than any that I have had back home in Grimsby.

Great location, only been there a few times very friendly

Best fish and chips in Maidstone - great value too.

Love this chippy! Best around for miles and the food is always hot and fresh. Great prices, great service. Always feel like a valued customer here :)

So dissapointed usaly so good.The batter was like a pudding..