Gandolfi Fish To Go

I have had a few takeaways from here and I can honestly say that it has been great every time. The chips are cooked well and the batter is light, crispy and not at all greasy. The veggie haggis supper is a nice twist on the usual chip shop choices. The portions are pretty generous and at £6.50 for a fish supper although not cheap I do think it is good value for money.

Utterly delicious and fantastic value for money, cooked by the prestigious fish restaurant next door which shares the same kitchen, Gandolfi Fish. Personally I love a non fussy service and tasty food, and don’t mind not having linen tablecloths. its superb quality food and the staff couldn’t be nicer.
We had vegetarian haggis suppers, there were two large discs of veggie haggis (which I believe were McSweens from the tasty seasoning and delicious texture) and a fair quantity of chips. It is only this year that I have discovered ‘posh’ chippies which have lots of vegetarian options, and this one even does posh fish with monkfish supper among those on offer for those of a pescatarian persuasion. Not something you see every day.
I had San Pelligrino mint and lime with my supper… posh chippie heaven.

My first time here it was a battered Haddock supper and it was a happy choice. Flaky fish in the inside with a crunchy fried batter made this fishy dinner a winner. But being a Wednesday evening, things were quite dead and the disgruntled owner let us know it.
The second time around was a busy Saturday night with friendly service. The Sea Bream had the same good batter as the previous, but even better because it stuck. It wasn’t the supper, just the fish but the two pieces were big enough to require a mini food break in between. Fish was fresh as can be and delicious.
It comes with a homemade tartar sauce with some herbs which is.different. Its worthy of a mention but personally a fan of the original tartar with just a spritz of lemon. Coleslaw was good when you actually got pieces of coleslaw but the problem for me was that it was more mayo than cabbage. I’d prefer a side that was less glop and more zestfully crunchy.
Recently, I once again had the battered Haddock. I think I meant to get the Sea Bream bc atm I couldn’t recall which I liked better. It was good, but Sea Bream was definitely the better for me! To account for its goodness, I can easily get past the less than stellar side and sauce. If i want fish & chips, its my first and close to only.

reading previous comments I think they’ve up’d their game.
working close by in a freezing office I thought I’d treat myself for my lunch (late afternoon) and popped over for a wee fish supper which was only £4. Everything was cooked fresh by the same chefs in the same kitchen as the restaurant next door — Gandolfi Fish. The chips were perfect & I loved that they sprinkled sea salt over them. the fish was a good size, not too much batter and melted in the mouth. they even added a slice of lemon for me to squeeze over it.
Yes I could have gone for the lobster thermidor (?) to go or something else more exotic but the wee fish supper did me just fine for a treat.

All the convenience of a take away, with all the advantages of an excellent kitchen-​great!

Do I expect too much from this place? For the prices being asked, I don’t think so.
2^nd attempt here saw a slight improvement, but overall, it’s just not delivering the wow factor. Take the salt and chili squid for example, not particularly salty, certainly not enough chili and the squid had turned to rubber, classic mistake. I wouldn’t say I’m a fussy eater and I know it’s not possible to please all of the people all of the time, but at £7.50 for 3 langoustines and chips I’d want the langous to be minus the rest of the body. Now, like I say, that might look pretty to some, but to me it looks vile and also a cheap trick to make the food look big.
The staff working here are pleasant, chef asked how I wanted the scampi cooked, of course I had no idea, so he recommended split tail grilled to get the best flavour. Okay, have an extra star for that you friendly chef you.
At least the chips were good, in fact, very good.
As with my last review, this won’t put me off the other Gandolfis, I may even try a sit in Gandolfi Fish meal some day, but I’m afraid it’ll be a long time before I can justify here again. Which is a damn shame.

I am going to be quite harsh here, not simply because of the experience but because of the complete lack of contact we had after the event, having taken to Twitter with photographic evidence of our problem and subsequently been ignored then really on their heads be it.
We have had two experiences with Gandolfi’s Fish to Go place and the first was pleasant enough as our friends took us there and you never complain when someone else is paying! As the other half was minding their place and looking after their mad but loveable cat we decided to pay a repeat visit.
We headed up and both of us ordered the Pollock. The joy of buying a sustainable and different fish from an up-​market chippie offset the idea of paying £7.50 odd for a Fish Supper. Pollock is a great tasting fish and the efforts of Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall et al to bring new kinds of fish to our minds and plates is a very good thing.
As the Fish Suppers were being constructed I took a glance over at the thing being wrapped and dismissed what I had seen as a trick of the light. However when we got home we discovered the awful truth. The Fish Suppers were adorned with what I can only describe as the smallest piece of Fish I have ever seen on a Fish Supper! The Fish itself was no bigger than the average cheap burger, I kid you not! This was on one of them, and high hopes of being able to split another portion and make a suitable pair of portions were dashed when we looked at the second of them. If anything it was smaller! Between the pair of us we barely had what I would have described as an adult portion of Fish. It looked as though a twin fillet had been cut in half and those halves cut in half again. For the price we paid, it was a complete joke. The Chips were nothing to write home about, being simply chips.
As I said earlier, we both then took our spleen to Twitter and posted pics of the offending Suppers and asked for some form of response. Both of us were ignored.
The fish was very tasty though, but two mouthfuls in and it was gone.
Wouldn’t go back, there are less pretentious places serving better chips and offering decent portions for a couple of quid less.

Boom. First to review!
I’d heard about this place a while back, bookmarked the hell out of it and stuck in into the old brain under the ‘this sounds awesome’ file.
Today was the day it came to the top of the list and I just happened to be in the area. Oh well, fish & chips for dinner then!
First up, this plaice (ahem) just looks awesome but in a very reserved manner. It’s all white tiles, chalk board menu and open views into the kitchen. Nae leaning up against the back of the the fryers trying to guess how long that sausage has been sitting there.
Ok, so that leads me to the first thing to point out about this place. It’s fresh. Nothing seems to be pre made, meaning that a supper takes a real 5 – 7 mins to arrive in yer mits.
Price wise, it’s what you’d expect for freshly made grub, with suppers ranging from 6 (Stornaway black pudding supper) to 10 quids. Pricey aye, but the quality? Ooft, the quality.
I knew this place, from the reviews of G — Fish and G Café, would only be serving the best o gear. I was not disappointed. A cod and haddock supper, both coming in at around 7 of your earth pounds a pop, were just sublime, and certainly vying for the best I’ve had in Glasgow. Succulent, beer battered and served with proper chippy chips, this was a fish supper served with a silver spoon rather than a wee wooden fork!
In summary. This is an awesome addition to the MC. Aye it’s pricey, but hey, you’d easily pay that for a cardboard pizza offering from Hizza Putt, or some other generic takeaway joint. Plus, if you really think about it, what does a fish supper retail at? 5 notes? Something like that? Well, add another couple of quid to that and you have restaurant quality fish fired at you with chippy chips to boot.
Win for the fish!