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What's the best chipper in Dublin?
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In the old days, Lorna's on parnell street. also Fuscardi's on Capel Street, still good last time i was there but that was a couple of years ago,
but my all time fav has to be Forte's Chipper on Dorset street. i remember going in there at 5 years of age, maybe younger and it looks exactly the same today as it did then. Still visit that place regularly.
PS, I used to be a fan of Leo Burdocks but it has to be said, they've become drunk on their own propaganda, the food out of that place is complete shoite these days. at least in the Phibsborough and Liffey street branches.0 -
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I'm so surprised that this thread has gotten so far without anyone mentioning Howth- Caffe Caira at the top of the East Pier is the best chipper around. Yummy food, and lovely scenery.
Lynch's in Killester is lovely too, they wrap the food in paper as opposed to bags- I love that 0 -
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Not so sure about that, their chips are always undercooked.
I've never been to a chipper that didn't undercook their chips. Horrible bendy greasy things they are. God help me but McDonald's fries are better than every Irish chipper's chips and Ronnie Macs food, as we all know, is muck of the highest order.
So there. And of course I say that with all due respect.
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Haven't seen it mentioned so far - my fave by far is Beshoff Bros on Mespil Rd (just off Baggot St near Mespil hotel).
They also have branches in Clontarf and Howth (different to Beshoffs in O'Connell St afaik).
It's normally quite busy in there with people from all walks of life. Not cheap, but the chips are great and the batter is fab - the chicken goujons are divine!
If only they did home delivery - I'd probably get it every night 0 -
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Osgoodisgood wrote: »I've never been to a chipper that didn't undercook their chips. Horrible bendy greasy things they are. God help me but McDonald's fries are better than every Irish chipper's chips and Ronnie Macs food, as we all know, is muck of the highest order.
So there. And of course I say that with all due respect.
Sorry, mate but "undercooked" doesn't mean something other than a crispy shell with nothing inside like Mcdonald's farcical fries. A good chip should have a golden brown skin, not droop when held at one end and when one bites into the marvelous al-dente texture, a waft of spud-scented steam rises from the fluffy white innards of the chip. The diner must then inhale, position the hot chunk forward in his/her open mouth and breath gently on it to cool it. A fit of coughing may ensue if the chip has been doused with vinegar and our hero has inhaled the asphyxiating acetic acid fumes.
Alas chippers aren't what they used to be. But many are still good. The Airport Chipper on Swords Road near the Viscount was unreliable. Somedays good, somedays crap. It was always second best to the Rimini but now is better, which isn't saying much since the Rimini is appalling.
"Rimini owners, if you're out there reading this, YOU SUCK!! Give it up. You are not Italians! You can't make chips. You are sickening an entire neighbourhood!"
Is Fusco's still on Collins Avenue? Also I remember Wonder Burger on Westmoreland Street used to do good chips and their burger was ace. And you know, Abrakebabra's crinkle cut chips always impressed me (but I was locked). Still these aren't chippers, pe se, so don't really count.
Can't say what the best chipper is but i was in the worst one years ago. It was in Cork City. I was on hols and my mum decided to get some chips. This place was a kip. There was a pall of smoke from the ceiling down to about six inches above the head of the guy cooking. He only had one eye, the other eye being just a white socket. Shocking for me, a boy of 8. When we got our chips and left we discovered them to be undercooked as in they had a hard external but were still white. And they were made from the waxiest, soapiest, poxyest potatoes known to man. They went straight in the bin.
I've always wondered if the eye thing was a result of serving his chips to someone of a more discerning palate.0 -
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