Pirate’s Fish & Chips

Hideous. When I order fish and chips I expect a nice chunk of cod, haddock, or pollock. Tartar sauce and malt vinegar are traditional condiments. I don’t expect a thin square of over-​fried previously frozen «fish» patty with some sort of thin hot sauce. Worst fish and chips of my life.

Just no. Never again. The fish was hard. Like it had been sitting out and then microwaved. Same for the fries. The special sauce was watered down. My pop tasted like it came from a dirty dispenser. Absolute ca-​ca.
The woman who took my order in very broken English seemed absolutely irritated I had the nerve to place an order. When I got to the window I saw that she was engrossed in some TV show she had on and was eating herself… right behind the register. So gross. So tacky. So never going back again.

I would give it even less if I could… I drove in, the person on the order speaker was very rude. My change was practically thrown out the window and shoved at me w/​o any words from the women who was at the window. I ordered a simple cheese burger, got a half-​raw, stale bun burger with some mayo and ketchup slapped on and a couple pickles there. I was not asked if I wanted onions, but they were there too — no lettuce, tomato or anything just a bare burger.
I will not be back… EAT HERE AT YOUR OWN RISK!!! Service is extremely rude and poorly done. The food is… well, you get the message.

Norm makes some good points.
When doing take out, ask for tarttar sauce if you want it. They provided an awesome spicy sauce, a somewhat watery hot sauce, that I thought was ketchup until I opened it, sadly after finishing off the fish. And although the fish seemed frozen too, it was good. The sauce mixed with tartar was great on the fries, which were good too, thick cut and soft.
Cash only.

One thing that caught my eye when a friend was driving me around Casa Grande last year was this fish & chips restaurant which had the design of a drive-​in restaurant in the 1950s. The condition of the structure makes me believe that it probably WAS a drive-​in restaurant in the 1950s, and ownership must have changed hands several times since. It seems, though, that the present management or owner isn’t too concerned about the maintenance of the external structure of the building itself. It was nighttime, though, and the place looked OK. And since I am fascinated by mid-​20^th century Americana (see my review of MacAlpine’s restaurant), I told my friend to pull in so we can order a snack. The menu showed items typical of most fish & chips places in this region, and the items were quite inexpensive. The burgers we ordered were about par for a fast-​food joint, and the fries were quite good. As we dined, I looked around and imagined what the place must’ve been like half a century ago: cars with tailfins parked alongside the carport-​like dining area, perhaps carhops bringing trays of ordered food to the people in the cars.
I returned with my friend last week, in mid-​afternoon this time. The poor state of maintenance of the building became even more noticable in bright daylight. I ordered Krab and chips (K, not C, because it’s surimi, not real crab) while my friend ordered burgers and fries. I do like surimi, so my order was OK; and as before, the fries were good. My friend’s burger, though, was obviously a frozen burger patty that had not thawed sufficiently before or during cooking, so it was cooked outside but raw within.
A visit to the place could really be a cool nostalgic trip back to the glory days of the drive-​in restaurants, if only they would give the building some needed repairs and touch-​ups, and would pay just a bit more attention to the cooking.