Friday 7 August 2015

It’s Friday and what do we eat on Fridays?  fish!  (Well OK, not all of us)

And what’s the best way to eat fish?  with chips! (Probably not everyone will agree but for present purposes it works)

And where do we like to get our fish & chips?  Well, that depends on where ‘we’ are but when I’m in Essex, it really has to be Peggotty’s in Rayleigh.  It’s quite a new shop but we’ve been going there for 2-3 years now and it’s consistently good quality, fresh. hot and served up by really nice people so what more could one want?

Actually while researching this I did find on the internet that there are a number of Peggotty’s scattered around, but not sure if they’re all related.  Not least there are at least two in Spain on the Costa del Sol .

Seems also to be one in Epping, another in Hadleigh near Southend, also Grays, Benfleet, and somewhat more distant, Leeds, of all places.

Now, I’ve only tried the one in Rayleigh but if the others are as good then they’re well worth a visit.

You’re probably wondering why my image shows the shop and not the food and it was indeed my intention to take a picture of my cod and chips before I devoured it but hunger got the better of me and I’d eaten half of it before I remembered.  But then I thought that while everyone knows what a plate of fish and chips looks like, not everyone knows what the Peggottys take-away looks like, so there you go, win-win.

Viva Peggottys!