"Since living in the UK, there's been a constant mantra that I've heard: If you want good Fish and Chips you have to go to the North. (To be fair, it's made mostly by Northerners. Since we were in Blackpool for the weekend, I decided Fish and Chips was a definite requirement, and since the majority of restaurants in Blackpool were absolutely frightening looking from the outside, we went to Harry Ramsden's. It's a fairly big restaurant, so it was quite easy to walk in on a Saturday afternoon and get a table. The service is great, as they woman seating us gave us a large table so that we could put all of our stuff (including a trombone in the seating next to us. And since we were only two, it was especially nice of her to use that much space for us. We both had fish and chips, because that's what you should have at a fish and chips restaurant. Now to be fair, it was a little bit better than our local place back in Enfield. The fish was well cooked and had a crispy, tasty batter. The chips weren't soggy. The mushy peas were fairly average. There wasn't enough tartare sauce for my liking, and I'm sure I could have asked for more, but the service wasn't that attentive. So good Fish and Chips but hardly the best (that is still reserved for a place in Cornwall . I think I'm still on the lookout for that perfectly amazing Fish and Chips in the UK."
