Fountain Takeaway

This take-​away spot near St. James Hospital was a fail. It was promising based on the prominent Fish and Chips sign located above it. It was oddly disappointing and gross. I have been on a mission to try fish and chips at every spot I can while in Dublin. This one has to be the most no-​frills of all of them. Not a table in the joint, they clearly do not want you to loiter. When they advertise take-​away, they truly want you to take it the hell away from there to eat somewhere else. Luckily, there is a small park-​like median just across the street from them with benches if you need a place to sit and eat. As for the food, if I said that the most impressive thing was the dual-​purpose bag it came in you would get the idea. This place is so low-​budget with tacky food pictures and advertisements on the walls and there is not a napkin dispenser in sight so the bag was great to wipe your fingers on. It also was somewhat double-​strength insulated since the fish did come straight from the fryer and was somewhere north of about a million degrees when it was handed to me. I tore into it across the street and found the chunky chips to be serviceable but the fish was downright gross. One of the pieces had spots charred black from being in the fryer too long and another had raw batter inside from not being in long enough and to make things worse, it smelled a little fishy. Without thinking, I ate it but after eating most of it I started wondering if it might make me ill. Luckily, no diarrheal illness ensued. For the money (4.50 euros), I’ve had so much better and none worse.