The Balancing Eel
The Sloop Car Park Back Lane, TR26 1LR - St Ives
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Seafood
Fast food
Verified Dish
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Takeout
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Dine-in
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Delivery
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Wheelchair accessible
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Casual
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Good for groups
👍 Recommended by 8 people
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Contact Information
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Phone:
01736-79-67-92
🌐 Website:
https://www.facebook.com/BalancingEel/
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Address:
The Sloop Car Park Back Lane, St Ives
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Google Reviews (10)
Delicious fish and chips. Line caught haddock available, and tasty chips. So busy when we ordered, but no surprise.
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Absolutely brilliant chippy, incredible large fish and chips (only downfall check opening hours)
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Great fish and chips takeaway with curry sauce
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Best fish and chips shop in St Ives. Quick service, and delicious food. There’s always a long queue for this place and it’s def worth the wait.
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Best fish and chips in St Ives, by an absolute mile. Fish was huge, chips were amazing. Curry sauce was lovely. Kids had chicken nuggets and chips and not a crumb left on their plates. Superb all round.
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Nice fish and chips for takeaway only. Ordered the small cod and small chips which was already of a decent serving size. Food was freshly fried so we had to wait around 5-10mins which was fine. Staff were friendly and warned us about the seagulls by the beach outside which might be eyeing our food.
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Tucked away just behind St Ives harbour, this fish and chip shop is the best out of them all. If you want super crispy chips, your food freshly cooked to order (still quick), flakey fish and golden batter… this is your place. This chip shop isn’t like the others and has non-tourist/ reasonable prices. I come here every time I visit St Ives and have waited in total no more than 10 minutes on a very busy day! The service is super friendly with an efficient order/ collection system. They will always ask if you want salt and vinegar as you collect. Only comment I have is that they should stop using plastic bags but they do ask if you want one or not. I will definitely be returning <3
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Best fish and chips by far in the town but portion size was a little on the small side, asked for a large but was quite small (cod). If I could give it 4.5 I would but if they made the portions bigger I’d give it a solid 5.
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Good fish chips and decent service. More recently the portion of fish has gotten smaller and prices have gone up but then that’s hardly surprising given the economy.
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Best fish and chips in the area in our opinion. Great batter and nice chips, definitely not soggy chip shop chips.
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