
Lakeside fish and chips
Quick info
About Lakeside fish and chips
Lakeside fish and chips serves a walk-in customer base on Brooklands Ave in Bedford, with no advance reservations taken. The counter menu runs from fish and chips to pies and a jumbo battered sausage, alongside cod and saveloy. Orders are prepared one at a time in the sequence they arrive, so a smaller order can sit behind someone else's fish while it fries. Lunch hours regularly bring a wait at the counter. Payment is cash only, a detail worth knowing before joining the queue since no card option is offered on site.
Good to know
- ReservationsWalk-in only
- AccessibilityWheelchair: entrance, parking lot
Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention cold or dry chips, long wait times, cash only and orders missing or wrong.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention cold or dry chips, long wait times, cash only and orders missing or wrong.
Customer Review Summary
Complaints about long waits dominate the pattern, with several diners describing queues built around a strict cook-to-order system, one noting over 45 minutes for pies, sausage and chips that still arrived missing an item and off the hotplate. Chip quality is the most repeated frustration: reviewers call them dry, overcooked, hard, or "like oven chips," and one describes portions so thin they seemed like lunchtime leftovers. Others report cold pies, watery vinegar, undercooked saveloy, and one account of hairs found in a chip bag alongside an overcooked burger with a bloody bun. Several trace the decline to a change in ownership or management, contrasting it with earlier visits when staff were friendly and food arrived fresh. Against this, a few reviewers still single out the cod and a jumbo battered sausage with mushy peas and curry sauce as delicious. Cash-only payment is mentioned as an added inconvenience. One diner who ordered just chips ended up waiting behind a fish order being cooked ahead of them.
Customer Review Summary
Complaints about long waits dominate the pattern, with several diners describing queues built around a strict cook-to-order system, one noting over 45 minutes for pies, sausage and chips that still arrived missing an item and off the hotplate. Chip quality is the most repeated frustration: reviewers call them dry, overcooked, hard, or "like oven chips," and one describes portions so thin they seemed like lunchtime leftovers. Others report cold pies, watery vinegar, undercooked saveloy, and one account of hairs found in a chip bag alongside an overcooked burger with a bloody bun. Several trace the decline to a change in ownership or management, contrasting it with earlier visits when staff were friendly and food arrived fresh. Against this, a few reviewers still single out the cod and a jumbo battered sausage with mushy peas and curry sauce as delicious. Cash-only payment is mentioned as an added inconvenience. One diner who ordered just chips ended up waiting behind a fish order being cooked ahead of them.
Featured reviews
- Google user
“We had our first fish and chips supper from the Lakeside today. I'm afraid it will the last time, the fish was very nice. The service was good and the staff were friendly. Unfortunately the chip's were awful, I don't know if it was because of the oil or dodgy potatoes but we didn't eat them all. Overall rather disappointing.”
- Google user
“It's a chip shop. Nothing special but never had a problem and I do like chips!”
- Google user
“chips and sausage hot but not cooked had to recook at home sorry but true ,vinegar like water”
- Google user
“Absolutely appalling portions of chips again Seems like they are serving up the left overs from lunchtime Fish was amazing Just a good job we had beans all over the chips else they’d have been so hard they wouldn’t have been edible Not the first time either”
- Google user
“Too long waiting for 2 pies, sausage and chips. Over 45 minutes wait. Got home and only got 1 pie. Food not hot left on hotplate. This is not the first time and as nice as some of the staff are if you continue to get orders wrong then they definitely will not be returning. Got a lady in there appeared so stressed and just rushing around and ended up getting orders wrong.”
Amenities
- Wheelchair accessible entrance
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- Accessibility· 1
- Wheelchair accessible parking lot
Location
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| Place | Rating | Distance | Mentioned in reviews |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeside fish and chipsWheelchair accessible | 4.0104 | — | cold or dry chips, long wait times, cash only |
| Nando's Bedford - Interchange Retail ParkGood for kids | 4.0154 | 1.6 mi | chicken, chips, mac and cheese |
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| Peri Peri Grill & Pizza | 3.8151 | 3.4 mi | peri peri chicken, peri wings, pizza quality |
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