Ol School Fish & Chips
What:
Ol School Fish & Chips
Where:
566 Brunswick St, North Fitzroy
When:
Mon noon-2pm and 5pm-8pm, Wed noon-2pm and 4pm-8pm,Thurs-Sun noon-2pm and 4pm-9pm
Contact:
9489 9083
You might have ridden past it a few hundred times and wondered,"What's so ol school about this place?" Well, I'll tell you. Tastes like real potato, that's what. They make their own chips, that's why. Cut them straight from the potato. They have sold a tonne of these chips since they opened 2.5 weeks ago. An actual tonne. Like, 100 kilos a day or some such. I don't want to be too extreme about this, but these characters are actually the fastest potato peeler-choppers in the world.
Furthermore, they are providing a service to the marginalised underground community of North Fitzroy who don't want to eat organic tofu bean chard sprout soup for dinner. The people who want to order their food under fluorescent lights, get a can of Kirks creamy soda to go with it, read a motorbike magazine on an uncomfortable bench while they're waiting and finish the whole fat orgy off with a post-coital fag while they watch black balloons squeeze themselves out of the washer-dryer.
By Penny Modra
Location: North East
Venue Type: Other
Keywords: fish and chips, North Fitzroy
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