Crispy Cod Formby

I used to love this place when it was Pitarras, I fondly remember visiting here on our last day of high school at 11am and waiting for it to open so we could shovel handfuls of steaming chips into our mouths to aid our lingering hangovers. I also distinctly remember the owner, who always sported a cap and an absolutely excellent moustache (the skill of moustache grooming is a fine art).
This establishment has since changed hands however and the change was not a particularly positive one in my opinion. The chips they do are average and the portions compared to their rivals are pretty small, plus they serve you chips in a little tray which kind of spoils the whole chips-​wrapped-​up-​in-​paper thing (it’s just not the same when you have a tray supporting them, they should just slip everywhere as you struggle to eat them).
They also do the usual Chinese dishes, burgers (which are pretty good, actually), kebabs and pizzas. I generally avoid getting things like kebabs and pizzas in chippies though, I feel that they are best left to proper kebab and pizza shops because when chippies have their fingers in too many pies, they usually end up doing everything a bit crap rather than excelling at a few things.
I’m quite a fan of the fish tank in there though; thankfully, they don’t put its contents in the deep fat fryer (far too small).

The fish they serve here is not cod and it is not made crispy, this fish and chip shop is located in Formby though so at least the sign above the door is 33.333% correct.
This is probably the worst place to get fish ‘n’ chips ‘n’ Chinese in the whole of Formby, it’s not terrible especially — there are just far better places out there (see how I refrained manfully from using ‘plaices’). What Crispy Cod Formby does very, very well is kebabs and burgers — this might seem odd for somewhere that so prides itself on fish that it puts the name of a fish that it doesn’t in fact serve up in backlit plastic, but there it is. Donner or chicken, ‘Hawaiian’ (served with pineapple ring — exotic) or ‘king’ (served with an egg — regal) the kebabs and burgers are the reason to get takeaway from here. Just avoid the pizzas, fish and chip shop selling pizzas; it’s just a step too far. It’s just wrong man. Just wrong.