The Fish Inn in Tendring

This is so unlike here, normally everything is good but… Chips were terrible, all wrinkley and dark, looked like they had been cooked several times and tasted awful. The fish was sloppy and watery. I don’t know what happened today, but it really was bad.

Fish and chips were delicious,well cooked and not at all greasy. Will definitely order again

Quality of the food was okay- not awful not great but the portion sizes are AWFUL. We usually order from our local chippy (on an Essex seafront) where we get a large cos, large chips and a suage to share between 2 adults and a child who all like food! We ordered the same here with an extra sausage. Honestly there were about 20 chips! Utterly ridiculous!

Don’t read the notes at all. Let down completely!

Ordered chips and rolls took money never washed hands and buttered rolls

really fast delivery, piping hot and delicious. what more can you ask!

Very good chip shop. Moved in around the area good to have a chip shop round you for thoughs lazy days. Good portions and quality.

Really enjoyed the food. Always good, only thing for large 26oz chips there isn’t many.

Had a delivery. Ticked the box asking for cutlery as we were staying in a nearby hotel. Also asked for plenty of salt and vinegar. There was no salt and vinegar. The chips were dry and tasteless. The fish however was nicely battered and nicely cooked. But let down by everything else.

Ordered via uber eats and everything came within the time frame the fish was fantastic and cooked beautifully the fried pickles were absolutely fantastic would recommend and I can’t add photos as we have eaten it all

so happy that the fish was tasty, made up for the size of it, for £10.20 it was probably the smallest piece I've had from there, but the freshest and tastiest

the kebab was decent, large portion. the chips were nice, ai had to add my own salt and vinegar though, I did ask for this... the pies were terrible, very dry and no flavour to them.

Delicious Chicken kebab and chips were ready for me to collect as promised.

Driver went to completely wrong holiday park.

really good quality, the hot honey chicken was lovely, highly recommend 😋

This is thevthirdctomexwe have had to ring and chase our order. I shan't be ordering ftom these again in a hurry, it's a shame because it used to be do good. Tonight the lady said sorry its because we have cheeky Tuesday on. Our delivery was estimated 7.57 pm I rang at 8.15pm to be told could be another 15 20 minutes maybe more

Had takeaway delivered on time but tge food was terrible pie was hard as well as tge chios burger not great either. Not using again.

The server was new bless her and she was absolutely lovely, very friendly and even remembered by curry sauce. Will definitely be back next time I am visiting Clacton which I will be doing regularly now

Always the best quality! lovely and hot when it arrives!

Ordered some food via Uber Eats app. The drive from the restaurant to my residence is 16 minutes, so not a huge way out. The app sat on 'preparing' for an hour before receiving a call from the restaurant explaining that they wouldn't be delivering because it was too far away. I explained that when typing my post code into UberEats that their restaurant came up so it must be within a range they set up initially? The explained this is due to a 'circle perimeter' and if they were to shrink it, they may miss out on customers that are more local. This I understood and was happy for them to just cancel the order and issue a refund. 1) No cancellation came. 2) No Refund came. 3) They made me and my hungry children wait an hour before ringing to tell us we live too far away instead of checking the order address as soon as the order came through and calling us straight away to inform us that we should try somewhere else, they didnt, they led us to believe that they were cooking our food and on the way. I have been in touch with Uber eats and am still battling with them to get my money back. Save yourself money and grief and just order from somewhere else. They have obviously just seen my order as free money.

Excellent friendly delivery. Food was great!

Just ordered 2 large chips PLAIN! And one regular with salt and vinegar and they gave me two large with s&v and no regular chips! When we went in to tell them they gave us our regular chips but refused to change the large ones when the two people these were for dont like it. Not happy!

Beautifully cooked food! One of the best chip shops I’ve ever eaten at! Will 100% be ordering again ☺️

Food exelent not bad price fairly quick with order

Worst fish and chip shop in Clacton, scampi was burnt, homemade tartar wasn’t that nice they didn’t tick an important allergy which is a big No No, the fish was overcooked and had to much batter, the chips was okay.

the fish and the burger was great so tasty and fresh, the chips was old, hard and rotten, as I bit on one of them it cut my gum, very upsetting as the fish inns food is usually the best, and never complained before.

As always great food delivered on time, Thanks

I have frequented this chip shop on numerous occasions (mainly on my way home late from work when I am feeling far too lazy to cook) and am yet to have a bad experience. It's almost statistically impossible to not have been let down at least once but it hasn't happened yet. The food is always really good and the staff are always very friendly.

Yet again a waste of time. Late and forgot the chips, again. Chippy, no chips.

Chicken missing. Phoned & guy who prepd admitted he didnt add it & apologized, manager said couldnt do anything as rest of food was put on a plate! Its now my fault? Paid for chicken but zero chicken in meal! No refund/credit/send out offered by M.

Just had the most amazing food. Prefect!

Fantastic ! Taste delicious and ready bang on time

95% of orders are spot on and really nice meals. On the odd occasion you get hit with major disappointment - unwrapped to find stone cold chips and meat in all meals, no mayo on one meal and no add-on chicken in another meal.

Very pleased, with the quality of the food, We really enjoyed it, the fish was really tasty. will definately use again.

*atmosphere is rated 3 because we ordered our food from home* Good tastes amazing, their new hot honey chicken is incredibly well cooked, portion sizes are perfect and everything arrived hot and ready to eat, 100% recommend

Fish seemed to have been fried some time ago. Quite dry.

Lovely food , nice size portions. Would order again.

Took over an hour to arrive then delivered the wrong food - took 2 calls and another 90 minutes to get the correct food. When it did arrive Shish kebab was tasteless & salad was some lettuce & a few bits of cucumber. Gone downhill the last few times & this is the last straw

absolutey amazing the meal was beautiful! the homemade Tarte sauce was out of this world

Best fish and chips in Clacton! Great delivery service too 😀

Retards serving!!! That's about has polite has I can be!!

wasn’t late due to restaurant but due to my location was difficult. food lovely! kids loved there boxes. driver friendly :)

original delivery time 18.30 - 18.50pm we finally got food around 19.43pm after messaging and ringing. food was only Luke warm. Drinks ordered was incorrect on delivery. worst order delivered normally great service and hot food. order here a lot but let down this time. Due to time delivered finally had to change plans arranged for evening also. would normally have given this restaurant 5 stars but not tonight unfortunately. shame.

Food was dry, chips were burnt and dry sausage in batter had no taste wrong ice cream in kids meal

Pre ordered for 7pm, it arrived bang on the dot. And it was hot!

Fish lovely as usual, every thing hot and tasty. Delivery with a smile

Ordered at 11:45 on their website and I had to call up after an hour to be told they had a technical issue with their ordering system so didn’t receive my order and I’d have it in 10mins half an hour later it came so waited nearly 2 hours for my order and not once did I get an apology or even offered a discount considering it’s our regular will certainly think about going elsewhere from now on, it’s a shame as the food is nice!

Chips could have been better!.

There were no chips with the meal I tried to ring the fish inn and th phone was not answered.

Cod was thin not large no chunks of fish especially as meant to be large.The chips were cold and mostly ends . Only thing we enjoyed was chicken and mushroom pie.This is 2nd time in a week last time chips were warm and ends as this time.

Food arrived hot, missing 1 item but they sent delivery driver back round within 5 mins woth extras and a sincere apology. would recommend fish was delicious will be ordering again for sure.

food was cold and greasy saveloy was really hard and crispy

Good food for the price cod was nice batter was crispy and fish flakey and the chicken fillets and hot fillet burger was spot on

Very good service and food great

Was not happy plus did not get 20 percent off for freebie Friday

I was looking forward to having my weekly treat for the 6 weeks in hospital

fast, efficient friendly staff. had a bit of a wait but that was due to it being so busy. nice and clean inside and all the food being bagged up was all freshly cooked. well done to the team working tonight.

Food was cold. No salt and vinegar on the chips. Was genuinely a stone in the middle of my chip.

Very disappointed in kebabs ordered. Tasteless, hardly any sauce, not hot and no cooked peppers just a few onions.

Food is normally amazing and on time but today was cold and inedible driver went to wrong address and food wasn’t edible it was stone Cold

Fab food, hot and fresh but had to chase up order as ordered a couple of hours in advance for 7 but not delivered till just after 20 past.

delicious food and friendly delivery, easy to recommend!

fish was good size and lovely fish but kebab meat was very small and disappointing

Went here on the 24/01/25 got 2 large cod, fish was not what I would call large. And large chips. when I got back home about 5 minutes away Fish was cold. don't get me wrong chips was good they was sill hot. I usually drive down to Holland-on-sea. but they have gone down hill so thought give The Fish Inn a try don't think I will go back.

diet coke was delivered but other than that good

Delivery Driver wanted me to walk to meet them approx. 10 mins away from my home to collect the food. I paid for delivery.

Quick delivery and absolutely delicious

The chips have improved. However unfortunately our food was like warm/cold when it arrived. We only live 5 minutes round the corner.

Just bought pie chips and gravy. Definately worst ive ever had anywhere. Chips were terrible , cold and shrivelled up. Pie was old and reheated. Had strange smell. Gravy like water. Avoid avoid avoid

Before I start I'd like to point out we ordered from here because it's one of our favourite chippy's in the area. Yesterday we ordered a delivery for dinner and it was awful worst food we've had from here ever. Chips were overcooked & burnt on both portions they also tasted like they weren't fresh from the fryer like they had been sitting in the hot cupboard that they scoop from for a while. The cod was over cooked and dry and the batter was dark and crunchy not to be mistaken for crispy. The only thing to save the order was my partners kebab which she says was spot on.

Excellent food from here.Fish tastes fresh and all food arrives piping hot.Would recommend the fish inn to anybody.

Nice but they forgot my Dr Pepper :(

Awsome as always highly recommend

Only had a delivery and it was okay. But not the best I have had. Delivery was quick though and portion size is good most of the time.

food is always cold , depending on who is on depends on whether they send the correct food

Best chippy in clacton in my opinion

food was greasy, chips were not as good as they were previously. felt like it was old food that they reheated. savaloy was cold

lovely bit of scran would highly recommend

Burger was full of oil, tasted sour, bun was soggy, literally thrown together and chips were half hard and half soggy. Gutted we dont normally have issues

Top marks all round as always, Thank you Guys Happy New year to you all.🥰

Easy to order..Arrived on time..all very tasty...burgers enjoyed...kebeb enjoyed...scampi enjoyed...Great place..

Great food, Great service. Many thanks once again.

He must’ve got lost as food was completely cold!

Brilliant food , so tasty thank you

I would not spend another penny there food is shocking, I paid 9 pound for a kabab and had 4 small pieces of lamb in it with yellow pepper, place needs to be shut down absolutely crappie! Missing loads from my order and this isn't the first time! Never again will I spend my money there! Lucky I don't go there and throw it in there face!!!

because of distance food is always luke warm or cold , always need to heat it up in the microwave

Food was lovely, chips fluffy and fish not greasy at all xx

The chips were cold and the sausages were dry, i couldn't even taste the salt and vinigar, disappointed its normally really nice.

Stone cold Donna meat crusty and hard

The delivery man brought our ice cream to the door but forgot our fish and chips. They had to send another person out with our delivery which was cold.

The order was also delivered to my neighbour! Which is bad enough but it was late and she’s elderly

Delivered quicker than exlected. Food was great, lovely fish, very tasty. Will be ordering again

My experience was good until 2nd December when 2 amounts were taken from bank account. One was cancelled and one was the right one. No refund received. Please investigate.

Food was all cold, very disappointed

Very professional my order was missing some items once I reviewed it but I went and told them and they sorted it straight away also chucked in a freebie to apologize very polite and would definitely go again regardless of a little mistake

As the time is only an estimated time as long as it arrives and is hot, as it always is, I do not mind

Says it’s supposed to get here at 6:35, still not even left the shop. Terrible service. Blamed the rain.

Having tried most fish and chip shops in Clacton I decided to give this one a try. I wish I’d read the reviews first! Early Friday morning 6/12/24 I placed an order for two large cod A very large portion of chips and a battered sausage to be delivered at 15:50 At writing this review at 16.10 The items still have not arrived. I gave them a telephone call and he told me that the delivery drivers don’t start until 16:00 And no one is there yet, but my order is ready and waiting to go. Why except the order for 1550 if you know damn well you’re not gonna be able to deliver at that time? Now by the time I receive my order, which could be any time that will NOT Be freshly cooked! So disappointed, And it’s not as if Fish and chips is a cheap meal these days I would’ve thought if they want to keep their customer base They would’ve been trying as hard as possible. I will update this when I actually do receive my order to let you know what time it arrived or if it even did and what the quality was like! If I could at the moment, I would give -100 Well, after the telephone call to the Fish Inn, he told me my order is ready, but they didn’t have any drivers to send it to me So it was sitting there in a warmer getting cold. On arrival at 16.20 The chips were stone cold not a very good quality, Yet the fish was pretty good. It was still hot And was cooked pretty well. We also had a battered sausage well it must’ve been all of 3 inches long I always felt battered sausages were at least double that I am going to post some photos. Very, very disappointed, considering also that I paid for delivery at 15.50 not 16:20 even though the fish was good, Everything else let it down, especially the customer service and being able to order a meal for the time of 15:50 when No drivers even start work until 1600 Is a ridiculous decision. Sorry, but It’s a big letdown from me! Photos below

Food delivered cold which is a shame but sadly not the first time either.

every time i order food , its always luke warm and has to be warmed up in the microwave , may be they should not deliver to Weeley and charge £3.50