Fish and Chips

We now have two regular outlets for fish and chips in the village. On wednesdays The Lamb does fish and chips to take away at lunchtime and in the evenings and the Chris and Chips mobile fish and chip van http://www.chrisnchips.co.uk/ comes around on a thursday evening.

The thursday evening Mobile chip van has a long history in the village. As far back as the late fifties and early sixties we had the mobile chip van of Johnny Rose of Ottery St Mary coming to the village and I can remember when I was in my mid teens qeueing up with the other residents of what was then Lily Lake (now Coach road and the surrounding streets) for the arrival of our thursday evening treat. The only problem was that because of the popularity of Johnny's chips elsewhere the van got steadily later and later and those with access to a car would drive as far as Ellerhayes in order to get their supplies.

After the demise of the Johnny Rose van there was a hiatus before another chip van made an appearence in the early eighties, this time on a wednesday, and there has been a fairly consistant pattern since of visits on either a wednesday or a thursday. A sad conclusion to one of these visits was when one of the van proprietors collapsed and died whilst cooking.

Whilst undoubtedly the Lamb now provides very good quality fish and chips and a pleasent environment to consume them if you wish to eat on the premesis, you cannot beat the magic of buying your fish and chips off a mobile van and carrying them home in warm paper to consume them at your leisure.