The Guardian
Grace Dent visited Spike Island in Bristol’s harbourside where Daniel and Joie Rosser have created a “rare breed of chip shop that underpromises and then overdelivers” – you may expect (and will indeed find) battered cod or haddock with chips, mushy peas and tartare sauce, but there’s also “a menu with more joie de vivre than your standard megabucks speciality seafood restaurant”.
Highlights include “at least a dozen types of spankingly fresh fish and shellfish from Brixham and Newlyn”, “world-class Orkney scallops”, and “huge, grilled wild Atlantic prawns that came with their heads on and whiffing of sea salt and thyme”.
And in another departure from the standard chippy, it’s an “elegant space” with turquoise banquettes and a terrace at the back for warm days — all in all, “one of the nicest restaurants I’ve come across in years”.
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