I’m a big fan or real chips, especially when you’ve been to «chippy alley»(you may get the reference after a night out on queen street). Most of the kebab shops and pizza fast establishments, supply fries, the americanised chip that lacks the appetite quenching properties of a real chip. The doner kebab is also very tasty, well made and well cooked food that is a staple simple food from the fast food road. Shah’s makes a statement to the rest being a benchmark of fast food quality. Try their chips and you’ll find it hard to choose between Shah’s and Albany fish bar, that is highly recommend especially from the student quarter.
James C.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Cardiff, United Kingdom
Albany Fish Bar gets all the awards; fair enough. It’s an excellent chip shop that manages to make everything to near perfection every time. It deserves all the awards it can get. Or it would, if every award Albany Fish Bar got didn’t take one award away from Shah’s. If Albany Fish Bar is a high-faluting 5 stars, Shah’s, by comparison needs a 6. Sadly, as there’s no 6 stars, and it’d be a disservice to mark Albany Fish Bar in comparison, they both get 5 stars. Shah’s is better though. The reason being both the food and the service. The food is excellent across the board, and whilst Albany Fish Bar often serves some of the best food in Cardiff, Shah’s constantly serves the absolute best chippie food in Cardiff. I don’t know how they do it; they must harvest children’s dreams and mix that into the batter or something, but the food tastes amazing. The service is also great; the staff are fast at their jobs, moving like a well-oiled machine so there’s never too much of a queue, and on top of this, they’re a merry, chatty bunch. I’m also informed that their beards feel amazing because my friend got to touch one once. I guess that’s also a good thing…
Laura H.
Rating des Ortes: 3 Cardiff, United Kingdom
I do appreciate that they serve ‘thick cut chips’. In other words, they serve chips the way that chips should be — real chips. None of this fry nonsense. However, when you’ve had good solid real chips on Brighton beach, everywhere else has to step up their game in order to even begin to be on the way to matching it. Well, Shah’s gives it a go and it’s alright for that. But the service when I went in(when it was neither busy nor quiet) was actually fairly bad. It was not quite rude, but abrupt and I was a little put out. Unfortunately, they are pretty good chips… Swings and roundabouts really.