The Chippy Doon The Lane

Since I moved to Glasgow, I’ve been wanting to try The Chippy Doon The Lane. My guy and I had a voucher for two fish suppers plus tea or coffee and decided to head in to town one afternoon to finally try it out.
It literally is doon the lane right next to Bread + Butter, which come to find out, they’re all part of a larger group of restaurants as this info was advertised on the fish supper boxes our food later came in. The restaurant itself is quite modern and unlike anything I was expecting. Exposed brick walls and modern lighting made for an interesting feel to the place. What’s more random is that there was a hen do on the other side of the restaurant from us– maybe out of convenience as Bread + Butter next door does some good drink deals.
It was quite warm the day we stopped in, so I was fully planning on making myself out to be a weirdo and order hot tea with a big glass of ice, but upon asking for it and mentioning how warm I was, the waiter said that I could swap out the hot drink for a cold fizzy drink instead. Success!
We were given an option of different fishes to order which was nice. We both went with the Cod suppers, because cod is delicious. To be fair, the fish was pretty tasty and not as greasy as I expected it to be. Not the best fish and chips I’d ever had, but we both quite enjoyed our food and the portions were huge. I think my guy ended up eating some of mine that was leftover. The suppers came with bread and butter as well, so you can only imagine how full we must have been afterwards.
The deal we had made it a no brainer to stop in, and even without the voucher, the prices are quite affordable. They always have deals on for a fish supper, so it’s worth checking out.

My first and only review. This should be a telling fact. I have traveled throughout Europe and this is the worst dining experience I have ever had. Horrible service making you feel unwanted coupled with food that would’ve given me food poisoning had I not been eating sushi for 12 years. Pick somewhere else. I wouldn’t eat at this place if it was situated in the Sahara desert and I was starving.

So I’ve been back in several times and never had a problem — until last night. I definitely feel like I’ve been glutened, so I called today to ask a few questions about how the kitchen does gluten free. While they assured me my meal was actually gluten free (and I believe them — that much gluten probably would land me in a hospital), I still have the symptoms of a gluten exposure. I had never bothered to ask before, but it turns out they use the same fryer for gluten and gluten-​free batter. I’m guessing that since they were really busy yesterday, I managed to get exposed via the fryer oil.
At any rate, I blame myself for this one, since I didn’t ask in advance. For those of you who do eat gluten-​free: beware the shared fryers!
The star reduction is due to really inconsistent service — some days it’s great, some days they completely forget you exist. Sometimes they just don’t check on you ever again after you get your food, and they don’t hear your request for a glass of water :(

The fish was the only good part, which was a great thing. The service was terrible, the chips were awful, and the ambiance was meh. However, the fish was cooked well and was moist.

This was my first visit to The Chippy Doon The Lane (I know, what’s wrong with me?!!) and I have to say, I wasn’t disappointed!
From the outside, it doesn’t look like much to be honest and all my trust was placed in my friend as she led me down the lane and up the stairs into the restaurant. They had just been painting the exterior so there was a strong smell of paint, but nothing that you noticed once you were inside.
The interior is really nice and for a chippy, I was really impressed! I don’t personally like fish but there is a selection of different fishes (including a catch of the day) along sausage, black pudding, fishcakes and macaroni cheese. So even if you aren’t a fish lover like me, there are plenty of mains to choose from! There is also a great selection of starters, side dishes and desserts (I believe?!) but we didn’t try any of those.
My friend went for the fish tea whilst I opted for the sausage supper with chips. The portions are beyond generous and extremely filling. The chips were nice (not the best I have ever tasted) but the batter on the sausage was delicious and by far was the best I have ever tasted! I was really impressed!
My friend enjoyed her fish tea although she had to ask for her tea and bread & butter several times before they arrived at the table (she had been served her main) which was a little annoying to be honest. I think she felt like she was pestering them each time she had to remind them and the place wasn’t busy or anything. She did tell me that is the first time that has happened though.
I really enjoyed my meal and I would definitely pay The Chippy Doon The Lane a visit again. Great value for money! For the same price, you could buy a chippy nearby and go and sit on a cold bench in George Square (does anyone want to do that!!!). I really would recommend this place!

Really enjoyed the haggis bites for starters and loved the stornaway black pudding with chips and brown sauce.
Don’t be fooled that’s it’s down a dilapidated alley and looks shutdown outside; it is very nice inside. Service was a little slow, but it’s was still worth it.
Awesome time in Glasgow!

Food was good but service was atrocious. The two waitresses were too busy chatting with each other the whole time to recognize when the customers needed service. The wait for our fish suppers was also extremely long, and the waitresses didn’t bother to explain why or to offer to check on our order.

Found — finally a fresh fried fish joint serving great quality, made to order PROPER fish and chips. If you ever are headed north this place is a must. They could teach the chippies of London a thing or 2 about how to get the perfect fish & chips.
Options of cod, haddock, Pollock and catch of the day starting at a reasonable £8.95 which includes chips, tartar and a glass of wine, beer or soft drink. Service was friendly and prompt and they catered for our large group seamlessly — all food arrived at the same time and was some of the best ive had (and that’s a fair few!) No room for dessert so I will just have to visit again to sample something sweet on our next trip!

As much as I try to avoid fish and chips, I couldn’t at the Chippy Doon the Lane. Their fish and chips were so good!
At the moment, they’re having a promo; 2 suppers for £12! It was really filling and delicious! I loved it! We had a Caesar salad to try and compensate for the fried food It was good too though.

I’ve been to Chippy Doon The Lane before and so when my Christmas night out was booked for here I was pretty pleased. There were a group of about 30 of us going, all pre-​booked and when we arrived we were in a sealed off balcoiny area with outside heaters to stop us from freezing in the cold December night. So far, so good.
We had ordered some drinks beforehand but being a wine drinker, I have to say it was pretty badly organised. I only ended up having one glass, but even if I hadn’t made that decision, it’d have been nigh on impossible to get my second as the bottles were being moved between tables and many of us didn’t get our second drink. Small grumble.
Our starters came out really quickly — lovely prawn cocktail for me with a nice portion of bread and butter. However, after this point it all went a bit downhill. After our starters were cleared our table had to wait over an hour for our mains to come out — meanwhile the other two tables had already finished theirs. Not great for a group booking. When we questioned this, they explained that it was because the kitchen couldn’t handle all the orders at the same time — in my mind, why accept the booking?
The same thing happened with our desserts — the other two tables had disappeared through to the linked bar «One Up» before we even got our desserts, and on top of that the staff turned off our heaters so not only were we waiting for ages, we were really cold.
While the service left a lot to be desired, it’s only fair to comment that the food was lovely. I went for the fish & chips and it was a very generous portion with lovely fish and really nice chips.
I would come again if there was just a couple of us but for larger groups it’s definitely bottom of the list for me.

Popped in for early dinner: I had a small piece of a large fish, a coley supper; excellent food but cramped sitting due to table design and dim lighting (an olds comment!).

First up — I hate, hate, hate, the name of this place. Calling itself The Chippy Doon The Lane gives the impression of a smallish café that has a good reputation for fish and chips — not the big, glossy restaurant it actually is. It even serves the food in card boxes instread of plates — as if to remind you that you’re having cheap food in nice surroundings. It irked me. A lot.
That aside, the staff were super friendly and it was fast. I opted for the veggie burger which was nice and spicy — but obviously frozen, rather than newly made. David A grabbed fish and chips which hit the spot for him.
If I can get over the kinda patronising name, I would probably go back as it was pretty good. And If not, there’s always the Merchant City Chippy…

Chips: nice squared cut pieces. A light crispness on the outside with a mushy, warm inside. If you like ‘em well done, these ain’t those. The potion is generous.
Fish: had the battered cod, smaller than the haddock, which is massive and cheaper, so if you’re hungry, that’s the one for you. You can get it breaded, but why? The fish was perfectly done. The inside was hot and steamy, the outside golden crisp perfection.
Find it down the alley/​lane with Monsoon and Lush on the corners. Across from Timberland. Once you find the lane, look up to the left you’ll see the signs that lead you doon the lane to Chippy.

I was pleasantly surprised to find that not only has the price of their Fish Tea not risen since my visit last year, its also available all day and all evening.
After a long day enjoying the free cultural highlights of Glasgow Commonwealth Games, and spending rather too much money into the bargain, £6.95 for a big fresh slab of battered fish & chips with a pot of tea and bread & butter was just the ticket! Glasgow was bursting at the seams with Games go-​ers so Chippie being hidden ‘doon the lane’ was a good call, as most places were mobbed.
Though my appetite was big, I struggled to finish my generous portion of food served up in a cute cardboard chippy tray with proper cutlery. Funny how sometimes the cheapest food is the most enjoyable food. Great service and nice ooking place once you get past the dark alley and up the stairs. I took a Chippie Doon the Lane newbie with me and I’m pleased to report he is now a convert!

Decided to try this place based on the great reviews we found here and we were so happy that we did!
Being from the US with minimal exposure to real fish suppers (had a terrible experience in London once) the waitress was very kind and answered my questions about the different kinds of fish used and the difference between choosing the supper with the chips or just the fish.
We both opted for the haddock and it was amazing! We tried to order the chips extra crispy, but that didn’t happen. IMO, the chips were actually quite gross and would not get them again. But the fish was heavenly, perfectly battered and fried with yummy tartar sauce… Try it!

Wandering the city centre to find somewhere to eat I’d been thought through, and discarded, a lot of options; burgers/​beef (too often), sushi (too expensive, or rather I eat too much of it!), pizza/​pasta (had it at the weekend), burrito (had it at the weekend)… I was running out of ideas.
And so my trusty Unilocal app prompted me to try the Chippy Doon the Lane, fish and chips, yes! Not had these for ages.
So I wander down the alleyway, to a not very inviting entrance (nor clearly signed, was I to go up those stairs or into that bar looking place on the ground floor?) and found myself asking for a table for one, and no I hadn’t reserved.
It was pretty quiet, a few couples seated here and there, but I had an hour to kill so was in no rush. At this point I remembered why I don’t eat fish and chips all that often, I love the idea but I’m a bit… bone-​phobic (it gives me the ick, I don’t know why) so I usually end up looking at the other options on the menu. And there it was, my go to favourite, scampi and chips with a side of mushy peas, yes!
Once ordered the food arrived promptly, less than 10 minutes from ordering. Looks wise it wasn’t the most appetising, some pale looking chips, cheap looking scampi and a mass of ‘salad’ that dominated the plate. For salad read; cucumber, lettuce, red onion and baby tomatoes swimming in a tasteless dressing. The mushy peas looked like mushy peas.
Taste wise it was all so so. The tartare sauce wasn’t particularly tangy, the chips were cooked but were neither fluffy nor crispy, the scampi was overly breadcrumbed and lacking in actual scampi, the mushy peas were ok after a liberal dosing of vinegar and the salad was… a limp, soggy distraction.
I’m pretty sure I could’ve cooked the same meal myself. Exactly the same meal as I have few doubts that the ingredients were not all straight from a packet (and even then I’ve ordered better frozen scampi from Tesco!).
Looking at some of the other dishes that were being delivered, the fish portions looked good, and given the reviews I was expecting a little better than my experience suggested, perhaps my choice of meal was just an unlucky one… but that is still no real excuse.
The main saving grace was the price. Scampi and chips, mushy peas and a diet coke all came to £10 on the nose.
I doubt I’ll venture back unless coerced, it wasn’t bad, the staff were friendly enough, the décor is nice and the price certainly dulls the edges of my experience, but it certainly wasn’t somewhere I’ll be recommending to others.

Really like this place, have visited a few times for lunch to take advantage of their super cheap fish tea offer. This week, we had an £11 voucher to use up which entitled us to two fish suppers, tea or coffee, bread and butter… Bargain.
First off, the portions in here are MASSIVE! I can never quite finish them but that’s certainly not a bad thing for folk who can eat loads. The chips are so tasty, probably better than ‘proper’ chippy chips. The lemon sole was really nice, first time I’ve had it in here and they served up three, reasonably sized pieces. Glad my boyfriend was there to hoover up the bits I couldn’t manage to eat!
The bread you get in here is pretty average, would be so much nicer if they served up some granary style/​bloomer bread or something along those lines, but this doesn’t take away from how good the suppers are.
I’ve never managed a starter or dessert from here, the suppers are far too big for me to fit in anything else. One day though, one day!

Chippy doon the lane… And then up a close!
I have eaten here before but after returning for a second time I wasn’t as over the moon as I was the first time! Firstly when I arrived the exterior was very grubby, after pulling at the door for a couple of seconds to find it wasn’t opened yet! After waiting 5 minutes the place opened! To enter the restaurant you have to climb up to the first floor! It’s situated in an old style Glasgow tenement which I never noticed before. When we arrive we were the first customers, the hostess asked if we had a reservation which we didn’t, the then hostess grumped about us not having one (this was a Monday afternoon and the place was empty… Even when we left) a quick glance at the menu it seemed like there was quite a few deals on. I went for the haddock and chips. It was a massive portion and very very fresh!
The food was nice, but just nice. The staff could have been a little bit nicer and the outside stairs could have been doing with a wash but there was something that I just couldn’t put my finger on. Something that stops me giving this a four or a five star so it has to be a 3.5 as it was just average!

My first thought is that this is a tourist trap. The portions are big, but everything tasted a bit weird. I think it is the type of oil they are using. Definitely not even near to being the best fish and chips I have ever had.
Plus the servers forgot about the drinks we ordered and tried to make it up to us by bringing us a couple of slices of bread and butter. The table of teenagers snogging behind us didn’t add to the ambiance.

Can’t believe I’ve never been here before as I love a good fish supper (with all the extras coz that’s what we do in that England).
Came here on a Friday evening with some friends from work and for most of us it was our first time here. Service was snappy and drinks came quickly — I had the white Rioja and this was the first time I had tasted a white Rioja and it was most delicious indeed. Slurp.
For starters I chose the chicken liver pâté which was supposed to come with oatcakes and chutney but instead came with apple sauce?! Bizarre. I hate apple sauce so I avoided it like I would a sports bar. Great big wedge of the pâté but (a wee bugbear of mine) only 5 wee oatcakes. If I’d had a bigger handbag I’d have taken the rest home I tell thee because the pâté was lovely.
For main I opted for the Lemon Sole supper — never had lemon sole before so was eager to try it but alas, they had ‘sold out’ that evening *sad face* So I opted for Haddock instead with a side order of mushy peas (oh yas!). When my haddock supper arrived I was opened mouthed at the sheer amount of fish & chips! Wowza. Deffo get your moneys worth here. Wasn’t to jazzed about the cardboard ‘fake newspaper’ container they came in though… made it a wee bit awkward at times to eat from — I’d much prefer a simple (or jazzy) plate.
The fish suppers all come with a HUGE quarter of lemon and ‘homemade tartar sauce’ — I wasn’t a fan of their tartar sauce; it was too much like a flavoured mayonnaise than an actual tartar sauce — not enough capers, gherkins or tarragon in my humble opinion.
I will most definitely be back here again as the quality of the fish was superb. I also like the sound of their Fish Tea Special and their 2 Course Special. I’ll also need to check out the lemon sole (eventually) too.
I was most impressed with the price as we had quite a few (not cheap) drinks and all had starters and quality suppers (with extras) and it only came to £20 each, that’s including a good tip! Nice one.
One other thing is when you go to the toilets try not to be alarmed when you turn to your side and see lots of yourself staring back! Some of the guys in my work were rather freaked out by this & as much as I love mirrors I don’t REALLY wanna see myself ‘mid flow’, hut-​hum. Sorry to be frank but true nonetheless!