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Topic Originator: onlytakes
Date: Fri 9 Mar 20:52
Maybe should be on the food forum but I think this needs a wider audience. Since moving back I've tried out the Abbey Fry (hit and miss), Gennaro's (decent) and Marinis (was great but recently crap).
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Topic Originator: shrek par
Date: Fri 9 Mar 21:04
The wee one in halbeath is decent.
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Topic Originator: Parplod
Date: Fri 9 Mar 21:48
Another vote for Armandos in Halbeath.
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Topic Originator: Captain Desmond Fancey
Date: Fri 9 Mar 21:50
Hook and Catch looks ready to open at last.
Hope it's decent as Dunfermline is utterly rank for chippies.
The good old days
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Topic Originator: DRFC_no1
Date: Fri 9 Mar 22:00
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Topic Originator: Boomer
Date: Fri 9 Mar 22:15
Another vote for Armandos Halbeath
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Fri 9 Mar 22:16
Going back in history to the '60s and '70s, the fish and chip shop next to the old bus station used to make the best post-match fish suppers in the universe. Forgotten its name, but I think it was Italian.
Don't know if it's the oil they use these days or whether it is that they don't wrap them in newspapers anymore or simply it is that your tastebuds change as you get older, but fish suppers don't have the appeal they used to.
Here in Oz, the fish is very different - they call it flake, but is generally believed to be shark.
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Topic Originator: DBS
Date: Fri 9 Mar 22:24
Would that Have been the "Stance restaurant" in Chapel St next to Peter Smith's
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Topic Originator: saltonsgonagetu
Date: Fri 9 Mar 22:30
Armando's in halbeath , traditional chippie
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Topic Originator: Kintos
Date: Fri 9 Mar 22:42
Had an Armando's tonight. Was excellent!
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Topic Originator: MikeyLeonard
Date: Fri 9 Mar 23:35
Armandos. . .no contest. Braw big helpings tae.
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Topic Originator: dover par
Date: Sat 10 Mar 00:05
Armandos is worth the wait
"Pressure is something you feel when you don't know what the hell you're doing."
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Sat 10 Mar 00:28
There seems to be a clear winner here...
Must say I've never tried Armandos... But I will next time I fancy a supper.
There's a chipper no far fae me but its rank rotten imo.
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Sat 10 Mar 07:57
It was indeed the Stance, DBS... good chippy as I recall and a complete time warp of a place... every time I was in there I felt like an extra in "Quadrophenia"..
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Topic Originator: kelty_par
Date: Sat 10 Mar 09:01
Must have been very unlucky as when I tried the Dalgety Fish Bar the better on the fish was mushy and the chips were firm. Willing to give them another go though. Used to like the Brig but they seem to be quite expensive and not as good quality. Marini's on Aberdour Road is pretty good and they do good grilled burgers of that's your thing. Armando's is good too of you like old school stuff. The one in Kincardine was always good for a sit in but I think they had a fire?
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Topic Originator: StevenPar77
Date: Sat 10 Mar 11:19
Never had any issues with the food I have had from either Dalgety Bay fish bar or the Brig on Linburn Road.
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Topic Originator: DA-go Par Adonis
Date: Sat 10 Mar 11:20
Oz Par - might have been Catignani's on Inglis Street.
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I love it when we go sell Kevin Nisbet,
He's gonna pay for everyone this season.
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Topic Originator: jimbooz
Date: Sat 10 Mar 13:46
The one next to the Gladyer Inn.
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Topic Originator: Paradox
Date: Sat 10 Mar 14:19
Marinis in Rosyth or La Riviera in Kelty always good
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Sat 10 Mar 14:22
Marinis chips are not the best
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Sat 10 Mar 17:41
Gennaros is the best in west Fife, for Fife overall I would go for Pittenweem by a whisker from Anstruther. My favourite other one in Scotland would be the one in Portknockie
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Topic Originator: istvan kozma
Date: Sat 10 Mar 18:17
I always liked the brig from way back when there was also the sweetie shop. The woman that ran the show had no concept of health and safety.
KOZMA
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Topic Originator: londonparsfan
Date: Sat 10 Mar 18:18
I always liked Cadora in Inverkeithing but have been told the one in the Bay is excellent too.
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Topic Originator: Frank Butchers LoveHandles
Date: Sat 10 Mar 18:22
Quote:
londonparsfan, Sat 10 Mar 18:18
I always liked Cadora in Inverkeithing but have been told the one in the Bay is excellent too.
Cadora used to do an excellent Fish Supper back in the day, used to go most weeks when I lived in Divit about 10 years ago.
Awight Pat!
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Topic Originator: londonparsfan
Date: Sat 10 Mar 18:37
Steak pie suppers are awesome as well.
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Topic Originator: kozmasrightfoot
Date: Sat 10 Mar 18:51
La Riviera is honking. Overcooked fish and dodgy chips,yuck.
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Topic Originator: Raymie the Legend
Date: Sun 11 Mar 14:01
Is Gennaro’s still as good as it was? Sadly, Gennaro no longer with us.
It`s bloody tough being a legend
Ron Atkinson - 1983
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Topic Originator: red-star-par
Date: Sun 11 Mar 15:42
Quote:
istvan kozma, Sat 10 Mar 18:17
I always liked the brig from way back when there was also the sweetie shop. The woman that ran the show had no concept of health and safety.
The wife behind the sweetie counter used to have really bad eczema- I can remember as a kid picking some bits of her skin off my Soor Plooms. Never wore gloves in those days.
Raymie, sadly Gennaro is no longer with us, but the guy that works there now knows his stuff
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Topic Originator: Dalgety_Par
Date: Sun 11 Mar 22:11
Gennaros is excellent as a chippy. Their pizzas are not the best at all, but the chippy stuff is very good.
It's common knowledge that Lionel Messi kept a photo of Hamish French by his bedside as inspiration every morning!
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Mon 12 Mar 09:09
The Golden Chip in Pilmuir St. was always my fave, probably because I lived nearby and it was therefore conveniently located... I even mind when it was the Golden Bird...
I returned to that chippy after an absence of 25 years and, while the layout was a bit different, the chips tasted EXACTLY THE SAME... cracking chippy...
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Topic Originator: sadindiefreak
Date: Mon 12 Mar 10:38
Quote:
average white par, Mon 12 Mar 09:09
The Golden Chip in Pilmuir St. was always my fave, probably because I lived nearby and it was therefore conveniently located... I even mind when it was the Golden Bird...
I returned to that chippy after an absence of 25 years and, while the layout was a bit different, the chips tasted EXACTLY THE SAME... cracking chippy...
I used to detest the Golden Chip/Bird.
Halbeath is probably best.
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Topic Originator: Klinker
Date: Mon 12 Mar 11:14
Surprised Romanos in Crossgates hasn't had a mention.
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Topic Originator: Thaipar
Date: Mon 12 Mar 11:55
Quote:
average white par, Mon 12 Mar 09:09
The Golden Chip in Pilmuir St. was always my fave, probably because I lived nearby and it was therefore conveniently located... I even mind when it was the Golden Bird...
I returned to that chippy after an absence of 25 years and, while the layout was a bit different, the chips tasted EXACTLY THE SAME... cracking chippy...
Was the Golden Bird and Golden Chip not 2 separate businesses.
One on Pilmuir St the other on St Leonard's Street?
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Mon 12 Mar 12:05
I was told a long time ago that the reason the golden chip was so good was that they used different oil to other chippies.
I want to say peanut oil but it was a few years ago so I could be havering the awfiest keech.
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Mon 12 Mar 12:12
Dont think ive been in the golden chip since my high school days
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Mon 12 Mar 12:17
The one in Pilmuir Street I should add.
Don't know if it ever changed its name as I've not used it for probably 15 years.
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Mon 12 Mar 14:54
Ocht, you young yins... The Golden Chip (with a capital T) used to be the Golden Bird (with a capital G)... it was a chippy an aw, they just changed the name...
They did deep fried pizzas tae if I remember correctly...
Jings, where is Denver Par when I need him...?
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Mon 12 Mar 14:58
I thought the Golden bird (with a capital G) was opposite the Auld Toll Tavern?
The golden chip (with a capital T) was called The golden chip(with a capital T) when I was at Queen Anne High as far as I recall (82 til 87).
Or am I Mistaken (with a capital M)? 😂
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:06
Aye (with a capital A) I am mistaken.... Or Aye (again with a capital A.... This is getting silly now) I'm right?
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Topic Originator: Jeffery
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:07
I thought the golden bird was across from the auld toll too
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:12
Honest man, when I was wee it was cried the Golden Bird... I even mind the p!shy cartoon chicken logo above the front door...
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Topic Originator: Pars Al
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:15
The Golden Bird was opposite the Auld Toll at Hospital Hill.
The Golden Chip has been that as long as I can remember. It was originally smaller but extended in the mid to late 80's into what was once a wool shop (Wyse's)?
Was there not a Golden Chip at the crossroads in Rosyth at one time as well?
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:19
AAARRGGGHHH!!! I swear to Leishman that at one time (maybe early 70's) that sodding chip shop was cried The Golden Bird.... there may have been another one, but I'm sure this is the truth...
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:24
an an ex foundry street resident il save AWPs sanity and confirm at one time was called The Golden Bird.
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:27
Keep the heid min (with a capital.... Nah I'm bored of it now)😂
If you say it was originally The golden bird in the 70s il go with that.
But... The one across fae the Auld Toll Tavern was Also called the golden bird... Was it not?
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:28
Pompey, I love you, and I want to marry you... email in profile etc...
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Topic Originator: Sligo Mick
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:33
The one in Pilmuir St was originally called the Golden Bird ..fact
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:40
Thanks Mick.. jings, I'm awa for a lie doon...
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Topic Originator: parathletic
Date: Mon 12 Mar 16:36
Topic Originator: widtink like | nolike
Date: Mon 12 Mar 15:27
Keep the heid min (with a capital.... Nah I'm bored of it now)😂
If you say it was originally The golden bird in the 70s il go with that.
But... The one across fae the Auld Toll Tavern was Also called the golden bird... Was it not?
Yip the one across from Auld Toll was certainly the Golden Bird in the 90's.
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Topic Originator: DBS
Date: Mon 12 Mar 16:38
Definitely used to be the Golden Bird before they extended it and ( took took)over the wool shop next door.
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Mon 12 Mar 17:34
Jings min...
This has caused so much consternation that somebody asked the question on pussboak.
It'll be oan the six o'clock news next... Then debated in the house of parliament etc etc... 😂
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Post Edited (Mon 12 Mar 17:48)
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Topic Originator: DBS
Date: Mon 12 Mar 17:58
Just to cause more confusion, there used to be " The Golden Egg" on Bridge St., near the City Hotel, a kind of Wimpy sit in place.
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Topic Originator: onlytakes
Date: Mon 12 Mar 18:24
Jeezo. Talk about starting a debate!
Going to do Gennaro's next time. Dunno what's happened at the Aberdour Road Marinis. Used to be spot on but seems to have changed in past few months. Not sure if they're still run by the same people despite the name staying the same. The fish seemed to be of a cheaper type imo. In fairness, I didn't specify the TYPE of fish. I reckon it was coley or something.
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Topic Originator: widtink
Date: Mon 12 Mar 18:33
Was there no a "golden fry" somewhere too?
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Topic Originator: onlytakes
Date: Mon 12 Mar 18:47
Lochgelly?
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Mon 12 Mar 19:05
Edit - it was funny at the time
Post Edited (Mon 12 Mar 20:53)
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Topic Originator: LochgellyAlbert
Date: Mon 12 Mar 22:30
Golden Fry in Lochgelly with A&R Fish bar in the opposite corner, 2 giants in the fish supper department.
Either would solve any world food famine.
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Tue 13 Mar 00:38
Argument settled. My mammy worked in both Golden Birds which were originally owned by the same person. Through time they changed names and ownership. Incidentally that was when you could get a swim and a bag of chips for a shilling, a Bob even ... (5p).
A tanner for a dook and a tanner for a poke.
Post Edited (Tue 13 Mar 00:41)
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Topic Originator: OzPar
Date: Tue 13 Mar 00:59
Ah but... where's the best place for a haggis or black pudding supper???
:)
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Tue 13 Mar 01:37
The Kingdom Hall.
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Topic Originator: PARrot
Date: Tue 13 Mar 09:24
You would need to be leathered though.
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Topic Originator: Kintos
Date: Tue 13 Mar 22:53
Gennaros being my local is my usual go to. Probably the best portions/value for money in the Toon. Usually pretty good quality too.
Someone mentioned Romanos. Go there if I'm after a pudding supper. Black pudding in particular is awesome.
Special Fish supper from Sauros still my favourite chippie meal ever though. 90's/early noughties, was in there for one every Fri evening
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Topic Originator: Lochnagar
Date: Thu 15 Mar 19:38
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Topic Originator: Bouncer
Date: Thu 15 Mar 22:25
Tried Hook & Catch tonight.
Decent food & a decent portion.
Prices are pretty good too, fish supper under £5 & puddings under £4.
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Topic Originator: onlytakes
Date: Thu 15 Mar 23:01
Thought it looked open. Isn't it just Marinis with a different name?
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Topic Originator: Bouncer
Date: Fri 16 Mar 00:13
Don't think so. Completely rebranded & additional menu items like sea bass.
Menu & prices on their website.
The prices on the menu are the sit in prices, takeaway is cheaper.
Post Edited (Fri 16 Mar 00:16)
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Fri 16 Mar 09:25
even just looking at the website its the most "Dulloch" thing there is. You are a chippy in dunfermline stop thinking you are an up-market eating establishment in the middle of edinburgh.
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Topic Originator: Westies squint kicks
Date: Fri 16 Mar 12:10
Had a fish supper from Hook and catch earlier in the week, fish standard but the chips were good. Prices reasonable too. However it's in Duloch and you know how bitter some folk are about anything in the area that it might struggle.
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Topic Originator: DBS
Date: Fri 16 Mar 13:42
Hook & Catch & Marinis are both owned by Tony Macaroni
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Topic Originator: Playup_Pompey
Date: Fri 16 Mar 14:09
"However it's in Duloch and you know how bitter some folk are about anything in the area that it might struggle."
dont think its a bitterness, from a large amount of experience people want an edinburgh lifestyle without paying edinburgh prices for property so work and socialize the other side of the bridge and evening meals more likely to be from waitrose/M&S rather than a chippy whilst others have moved or have been moved there from other areas of the town and already have existing relationships with already open establishments
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Topic Originator: dpard
Date: Fri 16 Mar 14:22
Had a sausage supper from the golden chip before the game on tuesday. Excellent as always
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Topic Originator: Westies squint kicks
Date: Fri 16 Mar 14:42
"dont think its a bitterness, from a large amount of experience people want an edinburgh lifestyle without paying edinburgh prices for property so work and socialize the other side of the bridge and evening meals more likely to be from waitrose/M&S rather than a chippy whilst others have moved or have been moved there from other areas of the town and already have existing relationships with already open establishments "
Not sure what relevance your point has to my quote given the bitterness is from folk who dont live in Duloch and you reference those that do.
My concern for the place is the general disdain in the town for Duloch means anything trying to establish itself there that isn't a "brand " is going to struggle.
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Topic Originator: onlytakes
Date: Fri 16 Mar 16:09
I live in Duloch having moved over from Edinburgh. I go wherever is nearest and don't expect an "Edinburgh lifestyle" whilst living in suburbia. So many people with a "chip" on their shoulder. Duloch isn't posh and folk there don't think they're posh. If they do then they're no doubt a bit Hyacinth Bucket.
Might give the Hook and Catch a go. Must be better than the establishments the common-folk from outside Duloch frequent 😂
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Topic Originator: onlytakes
Date: Sat 17 Mar 09:11
You drive your own Bentley? Why not have your man servant do it for you? I sent mine on foot to the Curry Pot last night. Whilst I adore their food I do not wish to stand with the serfs from Abbeyview. I've heard some of them live in "terraced" houses. So uncouth.
My only complaint about Duloch is the lack of an organic wholefoods supermarket. I have a man who delivers but I do enjoy perusing the shelves for foie gras and kobe beef. I shall lobby that no good Lib Dem councillor to demand a Waitrose at the very least.
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Sat 17 Mar 10:47
Pfft... you peasants know nothing of luxury... I choppered up to Andorra yesterday for a spot of late season skiing...
Apres ski, as I exfoliated quietly in my voluminous bath of freshly imported yak milk, I was seized by the desire to consume a gargantuan feast consisting of a black pudding supper, two pickled eggs, a crate of McEwans Export and ten Regal Ordinary...
Swiftly summoning my manservant Pedro to my glistening bathroom, I tried manfully to explain my predicament...
"Pedro! El Chip D'Or in el toon a Calle Pilmuir! Necessita una supper de pudding negra, dos huevos de Pickled, cerveza del Exporto McEwans y diez tabacos de Regal Ordinario! Take the Lear Jet!"
Hastening off, he ably manouvred the Lear onto the QAHS playing fields and sped to El Chip D'Or on the antique Harley Davidson...
He managed to return with my epic feast before the milk had even begun to curdle...
The only problem was that forgot to ask for extra salt, a problem I swiftly solved by draining the Med and forcing it through my personal desalination plant etc etc blah blah blah....
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Topic Originator: Mr Mac
Date: Sat 17 Mar 11:36
Quote:
onlytakes, Sat 17 Mar 09:11
You drive your own Bentley? Why not have your man servant do it for you?
Bentley's are for the gentleman who enjoys driving and have 'adequate' power to make it enjoyable.
One engages staff to drive the Rolls when one wishes to be wafted along to ones destination.......
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Topic Originator: Mr Mac
Date: Sat 17 Mar 11:53
Oh, and back on topic, the best chippy I've been to recently is my local in Falkirk.....Colorado's which is just up the hill from it's better known flash competition Benny T's.
For those that go for chips after an away game at Falkirk try taking a left at the roundabout and visit my American friend for a change.....some real American options like a Philly cheesesteak being added to his menu.
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Topic Originator: average white par
Date: Sat 17 Mar 14:15
Philly cheesesteak is a fine dish when it's done properly... had some crap ones but some belters too
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Topic Originator: Mr Mac
Date: Sat 17 Mar 14:47
Quote:
average white par, Sat 17 Mar 14:15
Philly cheesesteak is a fine dish when it's done properly... had some crap ones but some belters too
I'm expecting big things as he has had it on the board as coming soon for a few months and told me he's not happy with it yet......doesn't want to let his Country of birth down....
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Topic Originator: Shakey
Date: Mon 19 Mar 20:22
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Topic Originator: onlytakes
Date: Sun 6 May 14:01
Got the Hake supper earlier in the week. Wife got white pudding. Both were fantastic. Cheesecake was a bit meh by comparison.
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Topic Originator: Higgys Mohawk
Date: Thu 14 Jun 11:51
The one on Abbeyview is the best!
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Topic Originator: WORST
Date: Mon 8 Oct 15:50
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Topic Originator: Buspasspar
Date: Thu 30 Jan 19:03
Anselmo's in Dunoon
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Date: Mon 12 Sep 10:59
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