Papas Barn - Tonbridge and Malling

We often eat here but today, I think, was possibly the best fish and chips ever! The batter was golden and delicious and the fish was superb as were the chips!

We had a FANTASTIC meal today (1st December) … my husband is Italian absolutely loved his fish chips too! Beautifully fresh Cod.with crispy batter … lovely chips … Staff were so friendly helpful too. Well done to you all

We have been using Papas Barn for several months after moving from another local chip shop that had gone down hill. Normally we have Scampi, medium cod, and medium chips which we share between the scampi and the cod. Tonight I got home to find the scampi wrapped separately, the cod rammed in a box with all the chips. This made it impossible to remove the cod without it being completely ruined and broken. The chips were then contaminated with the cod which wasn’t what my wife wanted. The chips were also no where near the size portion that I normally experience as a medium. That with a large price increase for the whole meal. Why don’t you train your servers to be consistent and wrap the meal so it is presentable when unpacked at home. Given this and the price increase it looks as though I will need to look for a new chip shop for next week.

We've been before but this time was not very good. My wife ordered a butterflied sea bass from the specials, and chose to pay more for salad rather than chips. The fish was not butterflied, just a single small fillet, and the salad was tiny and not good quality. We told our server we were expecting it butterflied, she went to check and came back saying they had not had the butterflied option (which was not explained when we ordered) but we had been given more fish than normal. Since my wife only received a small fillet we wondered what the normal amount would have been! The quality of her fish, and my cod were both fine, but we felt ripped off and we won't return.

Evening spoilt as we purchased a bottle of wine. We never finish a bottle at the meal in view of driving back home. However when we paid bill we were told by Waitress we could not take the half bottle of wine home with us. Disgrace and for this reason I mark it Zero