The Ridgeway Fish Bar in St Albans

Delicious generous large cod and chips. The service and quality of food here is excellent as always. The battered sausage too was delicious.

Went there for the first time on 5th October 2024 for a cod and chips for supper. It seems a popular place, so there was a delay on getting served but that is par for the course at a chippy in my experience. I thought the place looked immaculate, and I particulately liked the flooring (just a personal thing I suppose). The staff seem to know what they were doing and obviously had a workable system up and running that seemed really efficient. I was served by a friendly woman and got my order promptly but I expect that's because I wanted a single portion of medium cod and chips with curry sauce. (Obviously larger orders would likely take longer.) The batter was the best I've tasted in long time and the size of the 'medium' cod generous. Can recommend the curry sauce too. The 'medium' portion of chips was more than I could manage and they were good. All in all a great experience. Though I don't eat fish and chips that often I will certainly go there again - and maybe next time take advantage of phoning my order in beforehand - another service they offer - to do away with the wait time. There was a very good range of choices offered on the clear and easy to read menu boards, and of course plenty of free parking nearby in the quadrant. Excellent experience.

I ordered the food just after 4.00pm and it arrived around 6.15pm. Not impressed, though the food was excellent.

THE BEST FISH AND CHIPS AROUND 100%

Tasty food, all cooked to order. Repeat visits confirm good food and service. Been back many times since and always good. Back again and tasty as ever. Repeat visits say all.

Very lovely fish and chips The bar is very clean and service was great food very well packed, my grandchildren were offered sweets for while we waited for food to cook, excellent!!

Highly recommend this place! Menu has so many new options and great lunch time offers.

New management completely transformed this chip shop from average to amazing!

Amazing fresh fish and chips, not greasy at all and enjoyed by all the family! Thank you.

First time to get food here since the ownership changed. The particular attraction is the availability of gluten free rock eel on Wednesdays. Ordered online so the food was waiting for me on arrival. Once home, both sets of fish and chips were hot, crisp and obviously newly cooked. Very enjoyable overall.

First time to get food here since the ownership changed. The particular attraction is the availability of gluten free rock eel on Wednesdays. Ordered online so the food was waiting for me on arrival. Once home, both sets of fish and chips were hot, crisp and obviously newly cooked. Very enjoyable overall.

Loved the ridgeway before, however chips weren't not cooked , cod roe was still semi frozen, not happy will not return

The large Cod fish is getting more and more small !

Not been too this place for a long time because of the quality of food previously but decided to try it again. Big mistake I only live up the road got home chips were cold more crispy bits than potatoes, cold beef and onion pie. The only thing that was good was the piece of haddock that my wife had probably because it was cooked fresh. Will not return very disappointing after spending shy of £20.

We had a big fish ans chips, was delicius.

The fish and chips were delicious and the staff are Awsome.

They seem to have been taken over by someone else..Chips not as nice (hard and crunchy). Gf Fish didn't seem to have the same batter... Might give them another chance next week...

Gone down hill.. Was a regular customer due quality of food and generous portion sizes. Last visit uneatable meals, smaller portions.. I took it back and was refused to be refunded and frankly they did not seem to care... One family that won't be going back EVER.. …

Gone down hill.. Was a regular customer due quality of food and generous portion sizes. Last visit uneatable meals, smaller portions.. I took it back and was refused to be refunded and frankly they did not seem to care... One family that won't be going back EVER..

Not as good as it used to be. We'd ordered and collected. Luke warm fish and chips. Chips were hard, like they had been warmed up. Not good. Disappointed.

Simply the best fish and chips in the UK, if not the world!

Used this fish & chip shop for the first time, excellent food & service, I look forward to more fish & chips .

Best fish and chips in st albans in my humble opinion.

Used to be excellent but fish now delivered soaked in oil. Even more significantly they did not respond to courteous constructive emails or take a phone call

Disappointing quality of chips and size of large cod. Arrived lukewarm. Remember this shop in its heyday- what’s happened?

Always a reliable choice for fish and chips in the area. Service is generally fast, but you can order in advance and just pick up.

Same quality as most other places at double the price, taking advantage of the more affluent area. Last few visits got me a front row seat to an employee arguing with a delivery driver.

Do not order anything from Ridge via Uber or any delivery service. Order missing 3 items this evening. Arrived cold and staff member fobbed me off onto Uber for a refund when it was largely the restaurant’s fault. Uber don’t even have a customer service number or Help function online so you have zero options. Massively disappointed.

Food was very good very pricey tho and the curry sauce was very weak more like gravy otherwise nice

Great fish and chips - good quality and not greasy. Very polite staff. We order online and collect - never had any problems.

Everything is freshly cooked and very nice indeed. There is a much wider choice than you would usually expect from a 'chippie' but then they are a step up from others. You can pre-order on-line which I recommend as this is a popular place, and rightly so.

Absolutely delicious fish and chips with battered sausage. 👍 Staff here from year to year are friendly and always give generous portions.

Our favourite chippy in St Albans, even though it's a fair way away from us

Had pie and chips on the go, I was a bit surprised at the price but tbh it has been a few years since I've had a chippy take out. It tasted great and the shop was clean tidy and very busy.

What a rip-off. Just paid £4 for a large portion of chips that were cold and the portion was so small it was barely enough for one, let alone the two of us.

Great tasting fish and chips all freshly cooked

Gluten free Wednesdays are the best, will definitely be going again!

Lovely fish (a bit too oily though), Expensive, expect to pay 15 per person

Our go to F&C in St Albans. Excellent service as the staff are always so lovely. Definitely recommend!

I have used this fish bar since I first discovered it during lockdown 1, but my experience yesterday was disappointing and I won't be using them again. Dry, tasteless chips, fish swimming in oil. The price was far from cheap as well ! They used to be good......

Very good food, but F and C is no long a cheap option, just an easy one.

THE BEST fish and chips!! Added bonus is they do gluten free Wednesdays. Very friendly staff and great food!

Very good value and very good quality. Really enjoyed it.

Gluten Free got the thumbs up . The regular was generous but the large did not seem much bigger. Next time save a pound or two and will have the regular. We will go again and not just on a Wednesday!

Really good food, seemed like the operation behind the till needed a bit of fine tuning as people were getting orders in very confusing timescales. But we will be back!!

Best fish and chips ever, including gluten free. I ordered and paid online and arrived at pickup time. They were literally packing it up. Gluten free haddock was superb and crispy and perfect batter. The normal haddock was similarly delicious. Chips crispy and plentiful.

Best Fish and Chip shop. Highly recommended

Clean inside, batter was thin and crispy.

Good quality fish 'n' chips. Four stars as large cod wasn't quite that large. The last 3" - 4" were basicly skin in batter which should have been trimmed off! Naughty!

Had to wait a very long time and it is extremely expensive. So much oil in the meal, which all leaked out of the bag and ruined stuff in the car! Being generous giving 2 stars....

Good quality fish and chips. Gluten free once a week and that is very good.

Delicious, huge portions. Good selection of meals and anything we tried was top notch.

The food is spot on Never had a bad meal from there Dan and the staff are all great people and always polite and make you feel welcome 6 out of 5 🌟stars

First 2 were crispy and chips were just as good, last two chips looked like a 90 year old fingers wrinkled and tasteless. Fish well if you like batter you might get half of it covered other half sticks to the paper the wrap it up in. Honestly zero idea if place changed hands but please avoid like bloody plauge it's crap

Just had the most delicious cod, chips and mushy peas meal. It was cooked fresh and just tasted amazing. The staff are brilliant, so efficient and work so well as a team. I would say this is the best fish and chips I’ve ever tasted

Excellent Fish & Chip Shop if not the Best in St Albans, Staff & Owner are Lovely, The Food is Always Top Notch, Hot and Tasty and the Delivery Side is Quick and Easy....Definitely Recommend...The Burgers are Out of This World as Well as The Fish

I have written before about these guys but wanted to acknowledge their fantastic delivery service through lockdown and the quality of their fish and chips. I have moaned previously about portion size but that is definitely not an issue anymore. Lovely fleshy crispy battered fish and good chips. Big thumbs up from me!

This is our regular "go to" for Fish & Chips. We order every Wednesday as they have Gluten Free options for my partner, and it is always consistently very good... so good we are happy to drive this far to get it from Hatfield. Pricier than some places but worth it in my opinion.

Great fish and chips. Good size portions

Best chip shop around!! Vegetarian option of battered halloumi is amazing! Chips always cooked to perfection and halloumi never soggy! So nice to be able to enjoy fish and chips without the fish!

Really pleased with the quality and service received. The batter is so light and the quality of the cod is fantastic. The whole family gave today's meal a thumbs up. We ordered a sausage that was accidentally left out of the order but Ridgeway we're back in minutes with an extra sausage on the house. I felt the need to leave a good review as most of the time people are compelled to leave a negative review after an incident. This is not the first time I have ordered from Ridgeway and definitely won't be the last!

Great gluten free Wednesday.. fantastic

What a treat! Beautiful fish & chip dinner grease free crunchy golden batter,gluten free version delicious,easy to order time slot for collection..will be returning for sure.

I understand in these times you only deliver , so I rang up and made a order coming to £13 I live above the quadrant on my own I even spent more than I wanted to just to get the order value up but £15 is the minimum I am disappointed that that for the value of £2 you Couldn’t pop the order up stairs

Lovely fish in crispy batter with chips cooked in good oil and excellent quality potatoes grown on a Bedfordshire farm. The lunch time special is great value at £5 per person for fish, chips and mushy peas. The food is packaged well and staff friendly and helpful. They aim to extend their range of food- with the possibility of home made pies. Only just relocated to St Albans and no need to find any further fish and chip shops!

Gluten Free Wednesdays, excellent crispy crunchy moist fresh hot fish n the chips. First rate takeaway with friendly service, can get busy so pick your time. Recommended, sorry no photo it didn’t just that long.

Gluten free and delicious, worth a journey From Edgware. It’s a shame more fish and chips restaurants don’t offer this service for coeliac sufferers. One day a week so check.

Having not been able to eat fish and chips for years, but still having to buy/watch everyone else doing it, I was over the moon when the Quadrant Fish bar decided to serve Gluten Free opetions every week. (wednesday evenings). Their fish and batter have always been perfectly cooked and chip portions generous. Most packaging is recyclable too and well labeled and the shop has up to date info on the wall about where its supplies are from. When its my time to go, I think I would like a memorial bench outside this place - I like the thought of

My first experience of this chip shop. Very poor quality.fish was very bland & chips not of chip shop standard.was cold when I got it home & only live 2 mins away in car. Not impressed!!..

The meal was below average barely any fish it was mostly batter. The sausages were also sub-par. We didn't even receive the chips and when we called up to complain they just told us tough luck they wouldn't redeliver.

I buy fish & chips most Friday’s here as there is simply nowhere else serving such great fish! But the last 3 months waiting for your order has become a bit much. I contemplated looking for another fish shop, but they are around the corner and the fish & chips are simply great. So I called up the owner to tell him I needed a solution as I didn’t want to search for another shop. He told me to phone in my order; but he also explained the efforts they go through to ensure the fish is fresh and ready to eat. This is my second week back and it’s much better! Great to know that the owner cared to listen and suggested a way to make sure I could enjoy our weekly fish and chips without the wait!

Not quite sure about this place now. The last time back this year I had an experience eating the fish and chips from this place when I was overcome with a feeling of nausea and could no finish the food. I suspect, but do not know, that they maybe frying with Palm Oil, my apologies if this is not so. It does mean however that I shall not be a future customer after many many years.

Fòod always goood and fresh fantastic service the shop is very clean and the staff recommend to anybody in area

Yes, proper Fish and Chips cooked to perfection. Good local chippy with varied menu. Friendly place to go.

Always fresh and tasty. Excellent service always with a smile. Possibly the best fish shop in St. Albans.

I waited 25 minutes for a small cod and chips. A wait is to be expected in busy periods but this was chaos. No apology given. The shop has repeated this performance on two recent visits. Loads of people just standing around waiting !!

Great service, quick and efficient. Yes it's only a take away but the food was delicious. Not all greasy like some places and very enjoyable. Fish was excellent and the steak and kidney pies are scrumptious

I used to be a regular a few years ago and thought I’d check back in after switching loyalties. Service was very sloppy, took >20 mins to get served at 7.30pm on a Thursday. Also didn’t get a good feeling off the people. Reminded me a bit like the customer service standards in the 80s, basically customers are a huge inconvenience. When I did finally get my order, it was wedged in and packed very badly which damaged the fish. I’ll try them again some time, when this bad memory fades, but not for a while.

Used these guys regularly over the last few years, but tonight service was sloppy, slow, people ordering after me getting served before me, then the chap can't remember whats on my order.

I’ve lived in St Albans all my life but have never come to this fish and chips. It was absolutely delicious, huge portions, especially the onion rings, I was shocked to see the size of them! No fish ordered this time, the chicken burgers were very tasty, as were the battered sausages & chips

First visit here to get cod & chips for all the family. Staff were so helpful as we didn’t know what size portion to have . The chips were chunky & not at all greasy. Cod had lovely crispy batter & no skin which was a bonus. Didn’t have to wait more than 10 mins. Thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Poor experience with the customer service - first the order was put through wrong (a mistake which is understandable from a young boy) but then arrived home with half the order missing. Phoned up a lady answered promised to throw in extra food. My husband had to drive all the way back to approach a defensive woman with no apology at all and no food thrown in as promised or token for their catalogue of mistakes. Poor poor customer service from her which is a shame as the food is good. Won’t be going again, you gain customers from good customer relations!

great quality fish and even better customer service, quick and polite never have any reason to complain, perfect place for a quick and delicious meal.

Best fish and chips around Hertfordshire food was cooked perfectly very quick staff was lovely will be going back very soon

Best fish and chips in St Albans by far, been going for a couple months now and the quality is the highest around

A big thank you to Daniel and his team for arranging the party order for fish and chips yesterday evening. Was perfect - all cooked , delivered and presented very nicely. Lots of our guests complimenting and asking where they came from 😊

Waited half an hour for a fishcake, despite being told it would take 2 minutes! The pie was so hard on top I couldn't break into it - must have been sitting there all day and I have never seen such a small portion of standard chips. I called the owner to give him a right of reply but he denied everything and proceeded to harass me on my mobile using a no caller ID number (conversations of which I have recorded for my safety). It seems other people who post online reviews get a pleasant response back but this guy has proceeded to character assassinate me and even lie about our conversation, making out I swore and wished him terminal illness. He obviously has a huge 'chip' on his shoulder - excuse the pun!

Waited half an hour for a fishcake, despite being told it would take 2 minutes! The pie was so hard on top I couldn't break into it - must have been sitting there all day. I have never seen such a small portion of standard chips. Gave the owner a right of reply but he denied everything and proceeded to harass me on my mobile using a no caller ID number (conversations of which I have recorded for my safety).

Just witnessed a member of staff loft floor matts up. He then proceeded to touch food. No washing of hands etc. Gross really!

I organised a school quiz for 80 people and as part of this we had a Fish and Chip Supper. Daniel was brilliant, he made the ordering so straight forward and due to the number we were able to get the food delivered straight to the event which was amazing! It arrived exactly at the time agreed. I have to admit I was not expecting large portions as we had gone for small cod and chips, but wow was I mistaken, the portion size was fantastic, the food was really tasty and all in all it was great value for money....I would definitely recommend and the Ridgeway Fish bar will now be my go to Fish and Chip Shop!

Tasty Cod cooked fresh for you and skinned too, Chips are not Greasey.Friendly staff.. Best Chippy in St Albans.

I organised an evening event for 20 people and we decided to have a Fish & Chip supper. The organisation and pick-up ran smoothly. People at the event loved the fish & chips and kept asking me where they came from. Several people said "These are the best fish & chips I've had in years!"

This has got to be one of the best Fish & Chip shops around! I don't think I've ever had a bad fish from here. The chips are cooked perfectly too.

Our grassroots football club held a fundraising quiz night and asked The Ridgeway to supply the half time food. 61 portions of fish and chips arrived on time, piping hot and individual wrapped and boxed. The feedback was ‘amazing’, superb’ and ‘the best I’ve had’.

Good food faultless staff great clean and fresh well worth top rating easy to find in parade of shops Thanks

After a hard days working & then choosing a new kitchen what better way to wind down than fish & chips with a lager. We both had rock & chips which took no time at all to cook. Service cannot be faulted as very polite & about the right price.

This is our regular fish & chip shop and deserves a mention as the quality here is always of a high standard. You are told via a chalk board on where you fish is caught,also where potatoes are from.Service is of a high standard,with the staff friendly and helpful,we will continue to purchase here and I recommend you do also.

This outlet provides an excellent fish & chip offering. In addition, fried chicken, pies and kebabs are on offer. The staff are friendly and with a small pre-cooked stock, service is quick but fresh. Whats not to like, treat yourself!

My third visit to this great shop and food has always been excellent. Like the information on where the fish was caught and the name of the boat that actually caught the fish!

Just wanted to say how brilliant our experience was here yesterday from one harassed mummy!!!