Renato's Fish & Chicken Bar in Highland

Been using this chippy since I was a child and we returned to Dingwall and wanted to try it out and it did not disappoint- great to have a king rib and steak the way they should be cooked -chips to die for - fish supper delicious and disappeared quickly. Staff friendly service quick. Do you deliver to London!!!

Very overpriced and underwellming Very small portion Very pleasant staff. Never seen such small portions for the money what a rip off will not be back.

Been living in dingwall for three years , this is the best chippy in town , the food is amazing , customer service could improve, very miserable staff,

Was reading some of the bad reviews and I'm assuming they've confused Mr Fish with Renato's. I've still not come across better chips or batter than Renato's. Yes the place looks a little dated but I don't go in there for the f##king ambiance- I go in for a good bit of scran and never leave disappointed.

avoid at all costs, overpriced for the portions poor quality and just about everything is frozen, including the battered sausages and burgers ribs steaklets fish to, dont waste your money, i'm 56 and have to say this is the worse fish and chips ever had.i ordered fish and chips, battered burger supper and double cheeseburger. the fish was a frozen battered one kept breaking up because it was frozen fish batter was gloopy and thick not light and crispy, the battered burger was a frozen battered burger??? why??? your a chip shop why are you buying in rubbish prebattered thick batter items do them fresh with your own light airy batter most places get the sausages or burgers in front of you put them in batter in front of you then in the fryer. you dont even hide the fact you just kept going in the back or behind the counter and just produce a pre battered item, even my burger bun had to be microwaved.... have some pride in your food. when i ordered the double cheeseburger i expected a couple of gridled burgers like most places but no frozen burger that were over cooked due to being deep fried to long nd as hard as bullets, was asked if i wanted all the salad so said yes, one slice of tomato and one lettuce leaf nothing else. and dont even get me on the chips. reheated refried, so they tasted stale and were hard and you could taste the old grease on them, absolutely the worse chips ever. and such a tint portion too. curry sauce for a teeny pot was £2 same for the gravy, shocking you cant justify that. 23 quid i spent for the worse i have ever ever had. avoid at all costs.

We've recently moved to the town and wanted to try the fish and chips, how disappointing, the chips were okay but the fish batter was awful, thick and dense, soggy in the middle, no taste, a good batter should be flaky and airy to protect the fish, I will not be back.

Diners in Dingwall aren’t exactly spoiled for choice. This is the sort of sleepy town where ambition comes to die, and they leave the Christmas decorations up all year round. So I was reassured when I saw a queue of locals snaking out the door of this place, which was doing a roaring trade. Appearances can be deceptive. The chips were good, and the fish was cooked nicely, but the dense coating was more tempur mattress than tempura batter. A centimetre thick in places, it wasn’t fit for a dog. I picked it off and abandoned it. Just before I abandoned Dingwall: hopefully never to return.

Local to the area a short drive away. Been a customer for many many years with no issues and usually swear by the place, hadn't actually been for a few months as i hadn't been through that way and decided to stop in on a drive home to feed myself and kids while the husband went on a night out . Got home to open the food for my kids to complain there was only 2 nuggets in a kids meal (i won't get into it with the state of the chips I'll just leave a photo as it was dry and inedible) both boxes had the same so i phoned to find out if the portion had changed as i believed it to be more. Spoke to the same lassie who had served us and she confirmed there was to be 3 in the box and offered me to go through but had to be in 15mins as they were closing. I advised it wasn't possible as i live 10 mins away (and didn't say this but lets face it im not making a drive back for 2 nuggets, the call itself was more so i don't make the mistake of ordering again in future ) she then hummed over the phone to then say to me well im not sure what you want me to do, no 'im sorry that happened' or anything like it. Eyebrows raised at the tone she used I said oh ok, bye and hung up. Conversation done or so i thought and i didn't think it was unfair of me to note it since i didn't ask for anything back from them or verbally abuse the girl etc i was hardly trying to pull a fast one over 2 missing nuggets! the conversation was over quickly no squabble either side, figured this was the end of it obviously, nothing more to be said. 1 minute later i get a call back from the owner where he calls me a liar. He cooked it (true) and bagged it (lie! that he backed down on when i said not true) and 100% adamant there was definitely 3 there and he should know, taken aback that he would call me back over 2 nuggets to accuse me of lying where i haven't asked for anything back at all, i assured him there definitely was not and that both of my children could tell him this too.. He told me he doesn't need witnesses because he knows it. Clearly something went wrong between cooking and bagging but he stuck to his guns and kept repeating himself, i honestly could not believe the audacity of someone to call back a customer that had the food in front of them, which was most definitely not up to the usual standard i would normally associate them with just to call them a liar, zero need. He got shouted at down the phone by the end of the call and since he gave such a ridiculous call over something i let go off and is in my opinion not worth the argument he phoned to have, he got told what he was and told where he can go in a non polite manner and this is why this review is being written. Not because of 2 missing nuggets but very much because of his bad behaviour and ridiculous attitude towards a family that has spent alot of money at his establishment for many years! Disgusting and unnecessary! Obviously we will never be back and spreading the word to save people the trouble of dealing with this fool!

Stopped for supper whilst doing the NC 500, good choice . Fish supper and pie supper wee a real treat. Definitely recommend

Absolutely fantastic chips and suppers to be had in Renatos, all managed by Ruth. The small unbattered sausages are fantastic too.......in fact try everything..

Four of us stopped off here whilst driving around the NC500 and to be truthful the fish and chips that we all had were not all that – we all found them a tad greasy. We all agreed that, after eating them, we wished we had visited a restaurant or pub and had some other meal. I wouldn’t really recommend the fish and chips from Renato’s (we have much better fish and chip shops in Leicester where we come from, which is quite surprising due to this fish and chip shop’s close location to the sea, so you would think that they would serve up first rate fish suppers, but not on this occasion).

We are coming to the end of our holiday and rather than cook on the last night decided to get fish suppers. Our nearest fish and chip shop was closed so I looked in some reviews and found Renatos in Dingwall about 6 miles away. I arrived to find folk queuing outside the shop and others waiting inside. Obviously a popular place. When I ordered two fish suppers I moved back to join others waiting for their orders. Within 3 minutes I was served and that should have alerted me. When I got back home we opened the boxes to find battered fish so soggy it was like wet cardboard. When broken open the batter was uncooked and a sickly yellow colour. The chips were not properly cooked and many had blackened edges. All for the princely sum of £18,plus travel! Perhaps I'm cynical but it would appear that tourists are being taken for a ride by serving food that has been lying around for ages and or not kept at the right temperature. Needless to say the whole lot went in the bin apart from the actual fish which the dog ate! When you are on the NC500 surely you want to keep customers returning, not complaining, after all Scotland relies on tourism for much of its income. Making a fast buck by serving sub standard food is beyond greed and a sad reflection on the hospitality industry.

Fish was brownish, covered in a pretend batter.that yellow sort of paste.Nowwhere near as good as an economy packet from tesco.Seriously it was discusting.even chips were crap

Visited this takeaway just now, Sunday 6pm. Staff that didn’t really want to be there said it all. The chips were reheated, the fish a weird orange tinge and just bitterly disappointing and overpriced. The oil they were cooked made the chips taste off? The fish was mushy and fell apart it had been cooked so much. I wish I’d got a bag of chips from Tesco and cooked them myself. Definitely would not recommend, will not return. Save yourself and go to Tescos.

Visited for a carry out for first time. The staff were welcoming and very efficient. Sadly the product did not meet up to our expectations in that the batter on the fish was tough and felt like thick skin. Hard to describe but certainly not the golden crispy batter we would expect. The fish was Good though and the chips were fresh and very nice.

The food was very good and the service was also good. I had the battered sausage and it tasted like a sausage

We stopped here for fish and chips. Service was a bit slow as it was a Friday evening. Good social distancing and COVID precautions in place. Easy to find by the traffic lights on the main road

My dear departed best friend used to swear Renatos had the best fish and chips in the area so we thought we'd have ourselves a takeaway. Being mindful of the size of portions we get back home we ordered a fish supper to share, BAD idea. The fish portion was tiny, more batter than fish and was dripping grease everywhere. Not a good experience.

Chips were greasey left with a horrible film in roof of mouth . It will be last time I ever go there

I ordered a pizza supper from this shop it was a tiny cheap pizza with the smallest portion of chips I have ever seen with a supper it was warm and no more than that and pretty greasy definitely wont be back

Here min .. Best chipper on the right side of the Bridge! Been open for years and will be open for years to come. Top Notch!

Very disappointed after travelling from Perth ( 2 hours 30 minute drive) too this so called ‘best chippy’ in the highlands once I arrived there was no car parking spaces had to park my camper van down at the football stadium and go by foot!...

The Fish & Chips are beautiful and never disappoints! This place has been open for years and there is a reason!

Great food and service. Fantastic fish suppers, highly recommended! Excellent value for money, portion sizes are great. Will be recommending to anyone looking for somewhere to eat in the north

This is a great chip shop which I can highly recommend.We went in on Xmas Eve and the place was packed but the service was fast and good.

Please don't waste your money. They charge 7.50 for the worst battered fish I have ever had in my life. Small portion of fish covered with greasy, rubbery inedible batter. I hadn't been for a few years but thought I would see if it was...

This is our go to chip shop when we are in Dingwall the staff are super friendly very talkative and very welcoming. The food was great and a lot of choice for kids.

Well, I’ve been to many fish and chip shops in my time but Dingwall holds the prize - the worst of them all. Sure, you can have battered just-about-anything if that’s your fancy. Ribs, pizza, whatever. But being able to serve up a half decent...

Used to go at least 2 or 3 times a month now it's twice a year. Food used to be good but tonight's fish was like chewing rubber, chips the same. Staff seem to be in constant battle with each other to get out of...

Really bad experience. There is no way we will ever return. This place is going down hill fast. The batter reassembled some kind of synthetic material and was very greasy with a strange taste. Better to avoid.......

Had a great experience here, fantastic food and staff were all friendly and accommodating. It was busy when we arrived but we could see why, great value for money and food was cooked fresh, absolutely worth it! We'll definitely be back!

" It looks a bit soggy yes but it's ok for me, but then again I eat pretty much anything!" She then laughed and gave me a ten pound note. I told her that it cost me £15 and she said " Some of the...

Been going here since it opened. Haggis supper is a must. Everything is cooked fresh from spotless kitchens.

Poor Quality Fish and Chips batter soggy, fish over cooked and tasteless pale Chips we will not be back

Second visit to this dark, wet town. This fish supper was less than fresh and at £7 was not good value. Only nice thing about it was the smiley, last time I found a chippy on hill on north side of town, far better

Great chippy fish suppers are spot on good size portion place looks spotless staff are friendly would recommend.

Normally the meal in Renato's is very good unfortunately tonight got my takeaway meal home, seven miles from Dingwall, the chips were very pale and interesting with a good al dente crunch, not impressed.............................................with part cooked chips!

Been for many lunches and the quality is always fresh and good and the prices are quite reasonable. Friendly staff and clean premises.

Had the most amazing fish supper from Renato’s recently when visiting family nearby . Had always gone to the Fryary in Beauly previously as we did on this visit and after travelling to get there it was closed. We then thought we would look for somewhere nearer where we were visiting . We found Renato’s Fish and Chicken Bar In Dingwall and low and behold it was open !!! I’m so glad it was as we truly had the most delicious fish supper , just perfect . So in future when up North we will head to Renato’s for our fish as it certainly did not disappoint!!!!

Went for brunch and a coffee. Good quick friendly service and reasonable prices. Plus, they had deep fried Mars bars, which I'd never tried before, and it was lovely. There is seating inside, and it's a good town centre location. I'll be going back!

One middle aged woman was very rude behind the counter. Shouted at me in front of other customers. If I could rate a 0 I would. Never again

Nous avons mangé 2 fish and chips excellents ainsi que des croquettes de poulet. Personnel très gentil. On a bien ri et franchement je recommande.

Best ice cream you can get and the chips are very good 9/10 aswell ! My favourite chippy by far ... they offer kidsmeals with a drink and a small sachet of tomato sauce in the paddington bear themed box also ... amd you ge a paddington bear toast stamp currently

Pizza crunch was great value for money, thoroughly enjoyed it. A classic high street chip shop well worth a visit for a good value chippy

Very small fish under the batter, chips were just ok, and the haggis wasn’t very tasty, and could have been used as a kosh, it was pretty hard and dry, went in here a couple of years ago, and it was much better, won’t be going back.

Fish and chips twice - yup, that was pretty much straight away. The chips could have been cooked a fraction more and the fish was a tad greasy, but it was very enjoyable and good value (a lot cheaper than down in London).

Never a let down, always get a good fish or pudding supper here. Nice staff and waiting times are not unreasonable when they're busy.

This is a humble fish and chip shop that does exactly what it says on the tin but does it very well. If you want a good fresh, hot fish supper then you won't be disappointed and they have all the other things too like battered sausages. All in all very good value.

Staff appeared to be unaware of how important customers are to their business! Chips served in tiny polystyrene boxes which make them the most expensive chips in Scotland!

I always call in to Renato's for a supper whenever I am in the area, chips are always first class! And always taste the same as they did 20 years ago - love it

The best chicken fillets and chips in the world, served by friendly staff. I quite often travel a 50 mile round trip just to get their chicken fillets and chips when I am hungry!

Fuimos por una bolsa de patatas fritas, simple gente alrededor, por todas partes - no hay cola clara. Me paraba detrás de un chico en la puerta y esperó. Personal ignora por completo los que llegan y r = la cola era salir por la puerta. Finalmente alguien en uno de los extremos de la barra decidimos empezar a servir a algunas personas y otra mujer dijo que iba a venir en todo el mundo.

Mozzarella sticks were ok but chips poor. Would avoid if in the area again. Staff very friendly however.

Como estaba trabajando este cuello de los bosques, y no podía comer la comida que se sirve en el hotel nos alojamos en fuimos aquí un par de veces y tuvimos llevar. Tuve una cena de pescado una vez y no me decepcionó el pescado se derretía en la boca fue genial. La próxima vez que tuve torta de carne con patatas fritas, que estaban recién preparado y sabroso, también tenía una bañera de helado de vainilla, muy sabroso para todo servido por el personal de lo más agradable.

Just fancied a snack so popped in for a portion of chips which I sat inside to eat. They were lovely. Staff friendly and seemed a very popular place.

Se acaba de mudar a la zona y pensamos en probar. La primera vez para mi hija de 3 libras. 70 para patatas fritas y queso que es escandaloso y tan fría que no se derrita las patatas fritas. Pensamos que este podría ser un...

Estábamos cerca mientras visitaba a mi hermano y Él sugirió el pescado y patatas fritas y luego sentarse en un banco con vistas al río. La comida era muy buena y el pescado recién preparado. Sin duda recomiendo Renato's Si quieres pescado y patatas fritas....

I often get chips here when I'm in Dingwall - always disappointing if it is on a Monday as Renato's is closed! I love their chips - and that is usually all I have - staff are friendly and if you can avoid the seagulls there is usually a seat outside.....although there are benches on the high street! Go for a large portion!

Only popped in for a "blast from the past" chicken fritter and chips. Not had one from here for 40 odd years since I used to bunk off from Dingwall Academy at lunchtimes. (class of 86)Chicken fritters still the same,.....chips amazing and a bit weird to wander down the high street with a bag of chips in my paw.Would definitely recommend for freshly cooked, inexpensive, tasty, eats served with a good bit of banter and a bit of a catch up about Dingwall.I'll be back on my next pilgrimage, next year.

Delicious fish and a lovely little town. We ate our fish right outside of the restaurant. Pleased to find the restaurant as we were starving after a fun day of sightseeing. The fish and chips were a generous portion and really good.

Popped in here for a quick take-away. Tasty fish and really good sized portions and good value for money. What I liked about it that the food was ready and you got it quickly. No waiting about. Also had a vegetarian dish. There is a little seating area outside the shop.Located near a corner on the High Street but car parks are only a few minutes away on either side.Would I go back? YES.

Perfect if your driving through and dont fancy cooking. Stop off and get some off the tastiest fish and chips. The ice-cream is one of my favourites too.

ate here a couple of nights whilst working locally. never failed to get a good meal, was better than the hotel food.

My fiance and I had a take out from here one night. I had haggis and chips and she had chicken nuggets and chips, it was around £8 which i thought was very reasonable considering the size of the portions. There wasn't a massive wait on the food and it was very tasty, the chips were very nice.Would definitely return!!

Just been 20 min ago. Pity i cant mark it less than 1, worst fish i have ever had very over cooked so much so the fish was chewy and the batter was sickly yellow and even the seagulls wouldnt eat it. The chips were poor. My daughter had calamari and only got 4 pieces but they were at least edible. Myself i would rather go hungry as this has made me feel ill. Worst £12 ever spent, will never return or recommend.

Long standing favourite chippy...staff are a bit off at times... Nasty towards each other or about people but the foods good and good prices.

Chips were ok, but he fish was poor. The batter was thick and rubbery. I won't blame Renato's for the badly behaved gulls on the car park though - that was my fault for putting the tray of chips on the roof whilst I opened the car door! Goodness me those gulls are fast!!

Never had a bad Fish Supper out of here. Look forward to returning soon when I next come up to Dingwall.

We arrived in Dingwall at 8pm on a Thursday evening feeling very hungry so we ordered 2 black pudding suppers but they were put in the microwave which I thought was unusual....was this because they had been gone cold? We sat outside on a bench ready to enjoy our suppers, but after a few bites of black pudding and eating a few greasy chips we gave up and threw them in the bin. Sorry, but we won't return.

With my family on Thursday, stopped for chips at Renato's and can only say I was not disappointed, the chips were as I remembered them to be, hot, fryed well and succulent, a long time since I stopped here but will be back !!!!

Tried to get a takeaway there earlier today but was totally ignored by the staff - a "hello I'll be with you in a minute" is not hard to say! I went to Mr Fish instead.

Twice before got food from here and never got what was ordered e.g asked for black pudding and got haggis. Despite twice checking with the not too interested staff this time it was still wrong asked for 6 sausages and got 5! Surely staff can count? The food itself was cold, greasy and not very good overall. Sadly I think 3 tries to get an order right might just be the last try - pity.

Tried Renatos this evening for the first time in a few years and was really disappointed. Staff are not as friendly as in the past and the chips were pale and greasy. My haggis was simply stuck in the microwave and then plonked in a takeaway tray.It used to be that you always got the craic in the shop and the quality was always great. Very disappointed that a local institution has let standards slip.

yet another food place thats gone down hill in years past, altho the king ribs are very good it would not take much to get this place back to what it was 10 years ago

Renato's is one of my favourite chippy's, but the owner is extremely mean with his portion sizes (deliberately I would imagine). If you go there, always get a single and large bag of chips, rather than a supper (only costs 20p more and you literally get twice as many chips)

I've stopped at Renato's a time or two when on the road. It does a great job and I have always found it to be very good. It's on the main road through Dingwall, on the junction of the road to Strathpeffer. It is easy to find and there is a car park right next to it. Highly recommended.