Old Smithy - Barrow-in-Furness

Best fish and chips for miles!! Well 30 miles to be exact, I live the the Lakes, and now travel a wee distance to have extremely tasty , freshly cooked fish with light crispy batter and great tasting chips. I love chippy curry sauce. Always really friendly staff. Thanks for another wonderful Sunday treat!

Wow....how not to do customer service! Aggressively asked if I wanted anything in the fryer.....then no acknowledgement...too busy on her phone. Staff in small black shorts...working the fryers! No apron...just no.idea of customer service. Used to love that chippy in its hay day...kind staff made the difference. Chips were OK though!

I ordered from this restaurant a few months ago and was very disappointed with the food. I complained directly and was given a free replacement of the same meal the following week, which was slightly better but still disappointing. Despite this, I decided to give them another chance and ordered again, but it was a big mistake. The food was delivered cold, the batter was not crispy, the chips were soggy, and my haggis was just a lump of doughy batter. I will not be ordering from them again as there are many other places in town that offer delicious, hot, and better-presented takeaway food for £18.

Good food but 2 hours to wait for delivery . Shocking .getting slower . All you get is not enough drivers and busy . Happening to often . Never again

Well what can I say about the Old Smithy other than I am terribly disappointed, As a local member of the Holbeck community, where the Chipshop is based. I tend to be biased towards the restaurants in my local vicinity but you have made that impossible, I ordered on Saturday April the 8th, as this was Easter weekend I believed the food I would receive would be fresh and covered with crispy batter due to the amount of business I assumed it would receive. Oh how I wish that was true, the meal that I received was far from what I described, the batter surrounding the lifeless fish would have won first prize on the great British bake if entered as a Victoria sponge. It was the thickest, oil sodden batter I have ever tasted to date. The chips tasted like the were cooked last week and then microwaved to an inch of their potato existence and then tossed in with all the burnt pieces of batter and then served. If you do have the misfortune of having an experience here I had then my heart goes out to you.