The Chip Shop - OUT OF BUSINESS

The Chip Shop is one of my favorite restaurants in NYC. Great food, nice ambiance. I get to drink Britishy drinks as fodder for my other blog. Better yet, everybody else feels the same way so we can always agree on the Chip Shop.

Chip Shop! Chip Shop! Chip Shop!

Chip Shop, you hold the strings to my heart, and you gave them a good yank when I tried your delivery.

Ordered:

Cod and Chips
Plowman's Lunch
Deep fried Twinkie

I knew things weren't going well when I unfolded the paper around my fish and the batter came off. All of it. I don't think there was a single bit of fried goodness stuck to my fish after I unwrapped it. My sobs echoed around our large, Bay Ridge living room. Alas. Scraping the goo off the paper didn't give me back any of the fried goodness. It was all mush. Everything about my fried fish that was "fried" and not "fish" had turned into gelatin and stuck to the white wrapping paper. It was like unwrapping a burn victim.

That sucks.

The french fried fared the same as almost all delivery fries. Mushy and gross. More like a big potato lump than little individual bits of goodness. That sucks too, but it's expected.

My wife got the plowman's lunch, I can't quite remember what was in it except that the pickle was missing. I think it was a salad and some cheese, no pickle. My wife likes pickles, this made us sad.

I was resigned to the worst when I had the Twinkie, only to be completely taken by surprise. It was delicious. I always eat the deep fried Twinkies for desert, and this was the best I'd ever had. It was like a sugar coated handjob, liberally slathered in berry sauce, where the creamy filling wasn't bitter and salty. The incredibleness of the Twinkie almost made up for the failure of the rest of the meal.

A favorite in person, not so hot at home.

EDIT: OUT OF BUSINESS