Oakwood Fish Bar
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About Oakwood Fish Bar
Oakwood Fish Bar is a fish and chips takeaway at Unit 6 in Derby, serving food for collection only with no seating on site. The menu covers fish and chips, mushy peas, battered sausage, and tikka meat, and chips come in small and large portions. Curry sauce is offered in both sizes, alongside salt and vinegar as standard condiments. Orders are taken on a walk-in basis, and a queue forms during busier periods.
Good to know
- ReservationsWalk-in only
- AccessibilityWheelchair: entrance, parking lot
Reviews
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention chips mushed together, fish and chips, battered sausage and tikka meat.
What reviewers say
Reviewers most often mention chips mushed together, fish and chips, battered sausage and tikka meat.
Customer Review Summary
Cod and chips form the clear draw, with several reviewers calling the cod some of the best they've had and the chips delicious and plentiful, while one describes a small fish meal at £5.50 as an absolute bargain for the quality. A longtime local customer calls it well run and good value. Set against that, a recurring decline shows up just as often: multiple recent visits report soggy, greasy batter, rubber-like fish, and chips that arrive dry or mushed together and stuck to the paper after being wrapped too tightly. One reviewer found a battered sausage with no batter at all, another says the mushy peas were more juice than peas, and someone questions whether the tikka meat recipe changed after it came out a different color and taste. Several also describe long queues, being skipped or wrongly charged at the counter, and curt treatment from staff, though a couple single out the longer-serving staff as good and lovely to chat with.
Customer Review Summary
Cod and chips form the clear draw, with several reviewers calling the cod some of the best they've had and the chips delicious and plentiful, while one describes a small fish meal at £5.50 as an absolute bargain for the quality. A longtime local customer calls it well run and good value. Set against that, a recurring decline shows up just as often: multiple recent visits report soggy, greasy batter, rubber-like fish, and chips that arrive dry or mushed together and stuck to the paper after being wrapped too tightly. One reviewer found a battered sausage with no batter at all, another says the mushy peas were more juice than peas, and someone questions whether the tikka meat recipe changed after it came out a different color and taste. Several also describe long queues, being skipped or wrongly charged at the counter, and curt treatment from staff, though a couple single out the longer-serving staff as good and lovely to chat with.
Featured reviews
- Google user
“Normally go here and went here as a kid the small portion of chips used to be a regular all the chips are smashed together and stuck tothe paper the large curry sauce is tiny I'd say its a small not a large, when ordering chips you get a mix you either get alot or not alot but the regular size is mixed sometimes it will be the size of a small sometimes not and most of the workers in there seem to give you dirty looks especially the blonde lady that works in there she looks like she's in her 30s also the lines are always massive way too long to eait like just gimme me chips”
- Google user
“Was first in the queue but the young woman serving proceeded to serve someone who came in after me. I corrected her and advised I was before him, to which she didn't seem over pleased about. After taking my order, she then proceeded to try and charge me for the order of the person she thought was in front of me. She said I had told her we were together, when I had said nothing of the sort. This woman obviously took the huff and again asked if I wanted salt and vinegar, when I had already told her I only wanted salt. She also stated slamming things around which I thought was very childish. Could do with learning a few manners. Chips and pie were only average. Sadly very disappointed.”
- Google user
“Best cod I’ve had in a long while and the chips are delicious and plentiful.”
- Google user
“Oh dear, first time using the Oakwood Chip shop and we won't be back, Fish batter was soggy and greasy, chips were dry, insipid looking and tasteless absolutely dreadful 😕”
- Google user
“Been today. Ordered fish and chips with mushy peas. Chips seemed under cooked. The fish was like rubber and the batter was 3/4 of the portion of fish. The mushy peas was more juice than peas. The worst I have had for a long while. It went into the rubbish bin. I will not be visiting again. There used to be a queue when I have been before. Not this time. Now I know why”
Amenities
- Wheelchair accessible entrance
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- Accessibility· 1
- Wheelchair accessible parking lot
Location
Restaurants near Oakwood Fish Bar
- Sussex Circus Fish Bar4.65150.9 mi£1–10
fish and chips, chip portion size, mushy peas
- 2.3 mi
lotus bun, lamb rogan josh, buffet variety
- Al Mehrab karahi4.32242.9 mi£10–20
nihari, chicken cheese paratha, karahi
| Place | Rating | Distance | Price | Mentioned in reviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakwood Fish BarWheelchair accessible | 4.3225 | — | — | chips mushed together, fish and chips, battered sausage |
| Sussex Circus Fish Bar | 4.6515 | 0.9 mi | £1–10 | fish and chips, chip portion size, mushy peas |
| COSMO All You Can Eat World Buffet Restaurant | Derby | 4.36,268 | 2.3 mi | — | lotus bun, lamb rogan josh, buffet variety |
| Al Mehrab karahi | 4.3224 | 2.9 mi | £10–20 | nihari, chicken cheese paratha, karahi |
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