Best Regional Fish and Chips
Escape the CBD and get some of Victoria's best regional fish and chips!
1. L’Ocean Fish and Chips || 19 Myers St. Lakes Entrance. Ph: (03) 5155 2253.
If you don’t think healthy fish and chips exists, think again. Open since 1992, they serve everything from fresh local fish to chicken burgers. Golden and crispy, both the fish and potato cakes have a great flavor, coasted in their own brand of wheat and gluten-free batter and cooked in rice bran oil. They even do free home delivery from Wed-Sun (in a 5km radius). Now that’s service!
2. Fish in a Flash || 602A High St. Echuca. Ph: (03) 5480 0824.
Opening in 1989, this basic fish and chip shop owned by a 70-year old employee Paul Rowe (yep he still works there) is renowned for its battered Queensland tiger prawns. Serving native river fish like Murray Cod and Yellowbelly and occasionally some Redfin (great grilled), ask for fried and your fish comes coasted in a beer-free batter (a 20 year old recipe) for a terrific crunch. Recently opened a sister store in Bentleigh East.
3. White Salt || 7 Vista Place. Cape Woolamai. Ph: (03) 5956 6336.
Premier take away food in Phillip Island. Offering a gourmet version, they’re renowned for a tempura-style batter on everything from the veggies to moist fish to those big crunchy hand-cut chips. Word is the grilled calamari salad is divine.
4. Trident Fish Bar || 4 Gellibrand St. Queenscliff. Ph: (03) 5258 2334. tridentfishbar.com.au
There’s big competition in Queenscliff by way of food but if you’re after some classic fish and chips, head to Trident. Order in advance and tuck a butcher’s paper bag full under one arm. Head down to the wharf and devour the lot. Car bound in winter, sun-drenched with legs swinging over water in summer.
5. Wisharts At the Wharf ||29 Gipps St. Port Fairy. Ph: (03) 5568 1884.
Amazing seafood at this Port Fairy restaurant. Order the Captains Choice for a variety of hot and cold seafood specialties or a platter of battered and crumbed flake, prawns, scallops and calamari with chunky chips. Great water views from the wharf so go on… wash down those battered favorites with something marvelous from the quality wine list.
