Allencourt Restaurant Fish & Chips

Intimate fish and chips joint. Old old style décor and changed ownership about 4 years ago but everything is the same including the staff. Coleslaw is finely cut and has a pickled taste to it which I like a lot. The fries are thick cut and the fish is great. All the tartar sauce comes in packets so it’s kinda old school.
The rhubarb pie and bread pudding desserts are all homemade and tastes great!
My go-​to fish and chips place when in my hood.

Best fish and chips in town, they serve all breakfast all day. There soups are so yummy all homemade.
And the Greek salad with there homemade dressing is to die for. Great price and the portions are huge. I’m defiantly going to be a regular here

Food was fair, it’s a typical diner that offers classic breakfast dishes. Had breakfast here numerous times, everything was average. Eggs were particularly good, but other than that there’s nothing too interesting.

Yum! I love the décor in this restaurant. It’s like stepping into the past. The lady at the cash is grumpy but the food is very good.

Excellent family style restaurant!
Been coming here for years with family — great breakfast, lunch or dinner. Especially love the Greek chicken salad and fish & chips.
New owners took over a few years ago and very happy to say they have maintained the same type of food which keeps all the regulars around.
Very friendly and welcome staff all around

Tuesday night I had to pick dinner up on the way back from work when I decided to pop in and try Allencourt. It’s tucked away in a corner but apparently has a loyal following of local residents. Ordered Halibut fish and chips, which was ready in under 10 minutes. The owner chatted with me throughout. The whole place had a small-​town, old school, mom & pop diner vibe; They were greeting customers by name. The food itself was decent– fries were huge & fish was done just right. Pricy though. Four orders, which were medium-​sized, cost around $ 54. Compared to some places in scarborough, which have crunchier batter + shrimp+ larger portions, i think this was really expensive.

I’ve came here a couple times for lunch and there are places you can get your fish & chips at a better price and taste.
The fish itself is mediocre, it is sometimes a hit or miss. The halibut is passable but the quality is not always consistent, I’ve gotten fish that smelled unpleasant and was fried horribly. It smelled burnt and tasted overcooked and for about seventeen dollars, you could get so much better for less. The oil must’ve been pretty darn old because the fish smelled awful after it was fried.
The fries are also extremely bland and often are cold, the filling itself is not thick and creamy like the size of the fries suggest and lacks the nice crisp texture I’d expect from fries. I believe they’re Cavendish and are probably not homemade either. Neither are the sauces, which is disappointing. Coleslaw tastes like your typical coleslaw, nothing much to comment on.
However, the atmosphere and service is nice. The people are friendly and kind, and the place oozes a homey diner feel. The interior is nice and clean and the noise level is fairly low.
Overall, I’ve had much better fish & chips elsewhere under fifteen dollars. It tasted bland, plain, boring and was sometimes mediocre. I would like a little more flavour, kick, and texture somewhere between the sauces and the batter in my fish & chips.

Quick… close your eyes and think «greasy spoon». Upon entering this place… it’s probably what you imagined.
For breakfast, it’s not bad (but then again, it is difficult to screw up bkfst). Prices are decent.
Lunch menu is just ok… on the times I’ve been here I’ve gone the safer route and ordered the Club House Sandwich.
Décor is so outdated it might be back in style…

One of our go to breakfast spots, mainly because it opens early enough at 6am for me and a friend who are early risers to get our breakfast on. Nothing spectacular about this place, but the breakfast is solid, everything is made to order. The coffee though is kind of weak, but the food was yummy enough.

Was there tonight for takeout. If it wasn’t for jan and Tracy you’d never know it was the same place. The beef barley soup used to be fork worthy… now it’s just broth.:-(the coleslaw was soggy and grey (a tell tale sign that business is slow) and the fish wasn’t halibut. Try as u might you can’t fool an old fool. The portion was ridiculously small as well. The Greek salad had 1 olive 1 slice of cucumber and 1 slice of tomato. The rest was brown ish ice burg lettuce. Sorry… after 25 yrs. I won’t be going back.

I was taken here a while back and honestly thought that my brother was leading us to a back alley to shoot us. But to my surprise he took us to a little diner that is hidden away in the back corner of an old plaza right by my house.
Upon walking in, the first thing you think of is old diner. The décor is old and rustic with an open kitchen and a tiny tv in the top corner that plays cp24 all day. The chairs are terrible to sit in and everything just looks like it was from the ‘80s, which it probably was.
Once you order though, that’s another story. Typical diner food like all day breakfast and what not are a staple. The eggs are always cooked to perfection, I like mine over-​easy and I can’t tell you how many places overcook them. The food isn’t drenched in grease but there is a little bit of sheen on it. Home fries are phenomenal, best I’ve ever had. And they serve real breakfast sausages, not like other places that serve wannabe breakfast sausages.
This place is a Richmond Hill staple and I don’t see it going anywhere. There’s always a group of locals that have their table and sit there all day and all night chatting with each other and all the other regulars. The owner is still the cook and his wife is still the waitress, except for Sundays when it is their day off. Great place to come and feel like you’ve transported to a real homey diner.

The «rice pudding» is FANTASTIC.