Unique Fish Bar & Kebab in Colchester

Friendly staff, chips ok, but oddly, don't accept cards, which most places do these days, and I certainly don't carry cash anymore! Though their burgers are very nice and their medium cod is massive, and can't fault the food and portion sizes, which is the main reason for our visit, obviously.

Great food and service every time from these guys. Best takeaway on Mersea Island. Definitely recommend them to everyone. But please note, cash only no cards.

Lovely chips and curry sauce friendly staff

Fantastic food. Especially Fish and chips!

You can't get a better Kebab than this! The fish is good too.... the batter is great. The Unique Fish Bar is a pleasure to visit, Abi knows the names of all the Mersea locals, which is something special. Highly recommended!

The best kebab we have ever had! Huge portions and did not disappoint. Yum!!

Big portions very good food quick service. Can be very busy on fridays

Delicious fish and chips. Beautiful white flakes of cod and a melt in the mouth piece of rock salmon. Staff very friendly. Didn't pre-order but waiting time was minimal. I will be back. Best fish and chips in Mersea.

Prepare for an explosion of flavour in your mouth when you come to Unique Fish Bar. This place is nothing short of a stupendous culinary experience that blows me everytime. When I ate here for the first time, I was blown away by the quality of the food, the speediness of the preparation and the friendliness of the workers, which brings me to my next point. The young man I spoke to on the phone was nothing short of extraordinary; efficient at taking my order, well spoken (not rude like other youngsers), and overall a top chap! I will certainly be ordering my fish and chips from Unique Fish Bar from now on, and I strongly advise you do to.

Without a doubt The best chippy by far for miles and miles...cannot fault it, fish was proper tasty and crispy batter, huge portion of fresh hot tasty chips, and lush battered sausage....best ever

Brilliant food owner a great host who welcomes you every time

How do you get away year after year as cash only.??

i hate the workers here, so rude and disrespectful called them the other day and al they said is that they were going to call the police dont come please foodnice tho

Great food, always quick, always nice. Had kebabs, dish and chips, and many other items from their menu over the last 9 years. Never had a bad takeaway. Always massive portions.

I came here 2 years ago and found the staff very welcoming. Fabulous chips, great kebab and tasty fish. You can eat in; take it to the green in front of the church or a short walk to the beach to enjoy, but enjoy it you shall. Nothing has changed in 2 years. I must go back more often. Thank you guys 👍👍 When you visit take cash as cards are not accepted.

When we come down to the Island from Cheshire this is where we have dinner on the first night. If we are down Friday, Saturday and go home Sunday we will grab dinner from there both evenings. Curry pancake roll is a favourite along with the battered cod (huge pieces in comparison to where I live) and grilled chicken kebab. The only downside is they don’t sell curry sauce.

Quality and service always first class

Lovely fish & chip shop with great food. Nothing is too much trouble, they are always friendly and helpful. Highly recommended with handy parking outside too.

The chips are the best on the island...but go round the corner for fish if your fussy. Kids way prefer here

Lovely service, good food every time. Cash only!

Always beautifully cooked and tasty. Lovely people ❤️

The very best freshest ingredients and food. And always a friendly smile and a chat while you wait. Fabulous. We are lucky to have you on Mersea island!

Nice chaps. Best chips in town and fantastic kebabs.

Cash only which in itself is a pain but parking is also a bit hit and miss.

I’ve never been to Unique before. Very warm, friendly people. The best customer service and lovely food. They could not have been better. Thank you

I suffered sickness after consuming as little as six mouthfuls of a Donner kebab. Would never recommend it.

Every single 1 of them in there are very friendly make you feel very welcome and all of the food is superb. My personal favourite is the chicken kebab so my man on the grill is very very good highly highly recommend 👌

Most polite respectful place on mersea thank you to all the staff very welcoming and great food

Best place for fish and chips on Mersea island.

Just ordered mixed grill for 2 Wow it was fantastic. Nicely cooked and plenty of everything. We ordered a portion of chips to go with it but couldn't eat them as there was so much delicious kebab variety. Great value too. It's our last night of holiday or we would be eating here every night!

The chicken wrap was actually pretty tasty, fair price Service was hectic, but they were busy which means good business Atmosphere, who dosent like a busy fish and chip shop

The only place I'll eat a burger from great service staff are very polite & friendly.

Excellent service very friendly all food cooked freshly to order and was large portions very tasty one of the best takeaways we've had for a long time

Been getting our fish and chips here for the last 5 years, always spot on. Last night tried the chicken and lamb shish and it was the best I've ever had. Highly recommend Unique

Omg best kebab wrap ever ,ordered 6 meals and not one disappointed us. Very busy for a Monday night bit busy with locals coming in good sign for good food.

This has not been the best place for me to buy food as the lamb kebab was very oily and just did not taste right. However, it was a large portion and quite costly and not value for money. As with the other food on offer I am not sure how it all tastes. The atmosphere inside not so great and I honestly feel its not the best fast food takeaway I could recommend to anyone when ordering lamb kebab. It does have limited seating. After eating from here the quality and taste of the kebab was sitting on my chest and needed a hot drink just to wash down. I definately could not recommend eating from here.

Best fish and chips on Mersea by far. My family has been coming here for years. Love it

Gr8 place, extensive menu & friendly staff

Really nice takeaway, run by lovely people!

quick and easy food workers are happy and welcoming

I have already left a review for their kebabs which were spectacular.... Last night we tried the fish - prepared to be disappointed. The haddock was amazing. Fresh, not dry with an excellent crispy batter. We will definitely be coming back soon for another! Many thanks Unique!

Staff were friendly, food was fresh and tasty

Allways good but let us down on this occasion with chips for a meal of 4 ,i whent back and the guys gave us a complete meal as would have been cold bye this time great service thank you guys 👍

Absolutely packed out with customers ...must be good ... and it was

Lovely food with friendly staff highly recommended

Absolutely fantastic. The food is amazing and the service fast and all the staff are very friendly. All cooked fresh to. Thank you. This is a cash only establishment.

We had to eat our take away fish and chips on a park bench as there was no outdoor seating, we have a dog. But the fish was lovely and the chips also! Very tasty!

Been getting our regular Saturday night takeaway from here for years now and always excellent ,great chippy. We ring our order through always 10-15min to collection.

Gotta say not to bad atall Burgers wer nice prices a tad high But it's a holiday area so I get it

Great portions and tasty food. Would highly recommend

We had Chips in Pitta Bread and battered sausage and they were both excellent, I would say the chips in Pitta were the best I have ever had, very reasonably priced and lovely and hot. Would definitely use again.

Did a semi-big order, very pleased with the food. All fresh and tasty, absolutely no issues at all.

Just had fish and chips to take away. Decent portions. Tasted good

Chippy for the thinking Mersea Island Man Woman. Good quality white flakes of Fish wrapped in light crispy golden batter with a shedload of chips on the side. Great Kebabs with superb Chilli sauce and service with a smile not a grimace. Fill your boots!

Great chips, friendly staff 👍🏼👍🏼

Chippy for the thinking Mersea Island Man or Woman Shed load of perfectly fried chips, so if you are on a budget one portion will easily serve two kids, get the chip spoon out and wop those chips on their plate they will be in heaven, Light crispy golden battered quality Fish Wrapped in paper as they should be to be honest. Not pre cooked chips, an underwelming sized piece of Fish and served with a little slice of Lemon in a little cardboard box. Thats for babies that is. To top it all off friendly service that appreciates your custom. What more do you want ?? DO IT

Food is nice but there isn't many tables. The service is also quick and friendly

We started coming back here a few weeks ago and noticed a big improvement in the fish and batter. Huge portions and very nicely cooked fish and chips. Will be back.

Luvly food.. love there chicken burgers but they do the best chilli sauce ever.. I have 2 order fee extra pits to take home with me 😋

Terrible service and food. take advice dont pre order as they don't have a clue what they're doing, I ordered 20 mins in advance and still stood there for poor food and tripe we didn't order for 25 mins what a joke

Great fish and chips. Freshly cooked, excellent portions and highly recommended.

Had a great lamb done kebab. Very happy

Used to eat from here quite often but recently prices have increased significantly like just about everything else in life right now!!! Honestly the grub is fantastic though! Can't fault them at all, other than price increase :( staff all seem pretty friendly. Give em a try you won't be disappointed.

Food is really nice, good quality oil - huge choice. Went again today, nothing but impressed, friendly service, good prices and nice cod and chips.

Been there a couple of times, food is good and staff friendly.

Great food made to perfection 👌

Very good fish& chips as always

They do the best chilli sauce ever..... 😋

We regularly use Unique - about once a month. The food is always fresh and the fish cooked well. The staff are polite and the prices are reasonable. If you want F&C then this is the place to go on the Island

It's not bad in here we normally do a stop of if we ride the bikes to mersea foods pretty decent little bit pricey for what you get but overall it's worth a visit

Good service, good food. Donner wrap perfect. Good portions.

We get fish and chips there every other week, when we take the in-laws shopping down, and they are such a friendly bunch, we phone the order through and they usually say 10 minutes, when we get there they see us pull up and start bagging it up. Never had any problems

Great food great service. Just remember to take cash!

I've just recently had the worst customer service from this store. I'm not very happy with the food since it was cold. The food isnt fresh at all .. I was very surprised with a guy working behind the desk and have noticed that other reviews have said he is extremely rude to. I should have walked out but instead waited an hour for food that wasnt even worth..

I gave 1 star because bad customer service and terrible cold food I wont be eating here again once again bad service.

Order and pay up front. Was told 20 minute wait for food. Ended up waiting nearly an hour! When I asked how much longer was food going to be, the man behind the counter was extremely rude! Then he took a box that had been sitting on the counter for over 20 minutes and said I'm just doing it! He was so rude and aggressive. I was patient because they was busy but I said to him that food has been sitting there for ages and he told me 'so what' . I will never use this shop again based on the aggressive attitude of the staff in there, I don't care how busy you are. Common courtesy and manners cost nothing, something they clearly need staff training on! Would be zero star if it was an option. Also the food was cold. The cod and lamb was dry, chips cooked in old oil. All in all an awful experience!

Wanted over an hour for appalling customer service and the food was cold 😡😡 will never eat here again

And they also need to learn what 20 minutes is! Went to get a take away tonight, was told 20 minutes which ended up being an hour. When my wife asked (after an hour) how much longer, she was told “IM BUSY” food had been sat waiting for 20 minutes in a box on the counter. Then she was told to “just take her food!” Needless to say when we got it home, it was cold. The guy is lucky that my wife filled me in on what was said once we were way way down the road. Had I known while we were there, he would have been picking his teeth out of the chip fryer! If you want cold food, hideous attitude to customers as a 1 hour wait, you’ll get all three here! The only plus side to this establishment is that you get to meet some really nice people who are also waiting…. Unfortunate for this shop, I don’t think they’ll be shopping here much longer!

Great food and friendly people.

Great quality fish and large portions make this excellent value (I'm an ex fish wholesaler so I know good fish) have used unique many times so this is an opinion gathered over several years

We were camping in nearby East Mersea when we had a major kitchen malfunction, so we abandoned our tent and half cooked meals, jumped in the car and found this little gem on Google, Excellent food, good portion sizes, friendly staff and very reasonable prices. Thanks guys 👍

Often visit when in mersea...nice food and lovely staff...visited again July 2021..good as usual ,But unhappy to see they still not taking card payments. Come on boys ,move with the times. Cash points on island are few between and often run out of cash ...

We both had quarter pounder cheese burgers and shared a portion of chips. Fresh burgers were displayed in a cabinet before cooking. They were really good quality burgers with salad and we opted for burger sauce. The sesame seed buns were lightly toasted which was a nice touch. The regular portion of chips was quite large and we didn’t manage to finish them. They were delicious. Will definitely go back.

Alway busy, having to queue in the drizzle outside is a bit of a pain but worth the wait as their food is great. Fish and chips cooked very well and their chicken kebabs are smashing. Will definitely return here.

Originally from east london, Unique is now our local chippy. Can be a bit hit and miss but 9 times out of 10 its spot on. Portions are decent, chips are really nice and the staff are always friendly. Its our after school treat on fridays now and the kids love it.

Visited from London and checked out this place and everything we ordered was delicious, so much so we came back the next night as well. Thank you for your lovely service and your lovely food. Next time we are in Mersea we will be back!

It’s a solid chip shop/kebab house offering. Chips aren’t the best and saveloys are poor; fish is ok. Biggest problem is they only take cash!!! For a seaside destination, in current times, just unacceptable.

Excellent service and food. Very friendly staff

Oh so generous helping of poping hot fish and chips!

Battered sausage and chips were top tier👌 very good value for money. yet to try the cod or kebabs

Best fish & chips on the Island. Use frequently and never once been disappoint.

Not bad battered sausage and chips!

Food and service is quality, love it!

Excellent food and service, great staff

Got myself a kebab and I was not impressed!! The customer service was very poor and rude and not to mention I only had 4 chunks of lamb shish which is ridiculous costing nearly 10 pounds, another thing lack of sauce... literally it's like they used one of them small ketchup sachets on my kebab and thats it... it's so not worth the money and I'm very disappointed, will not be eating here ever again. Oh and please dont stare at my girlfriend like shes a piece of meat... thankyou :)

Another chippy as part of the seaside tour me and my daughter are doing. The chips at this place were winning until we went to Frinton, they are currently second out of six locations visited. Good chips and would recommend!

Really good service and first class food. We visit most weekends and they have never let us down !!!!

Nice people and really good fish but way to many chips they should do a small portion as well I'm not fond of throwing away food

Every thing from fish and chips to burgers and kebabs. All reasonably priced, cooked fresh on order.

High quality food, little queue time