The Esk Cafe - Carlisle

Stopped here on the way home. The chips were bland and overdone with the batter on the fish being tasteless and underdone. All in all a very poor experience. Even the dog turned his nose up at it. Another takeaway that is taking part in the race to the bottom

The battered haggis and black pudding was delicious, but I'd personally rate the creamy haggis a little higher due to the black pudding being so rich it was almost overwhelming. Absolutely top tier battered food

Very expensive place for fish and chips. Fish was full of bones, very greasy and chips very bland. Staff didn’t seem very motivated. They put paper in between fish and chips which was already in a box. The steam from the food, stuck the paper to the fish so when you took the paper off the fish, the batter (soggy as a result) came off with it! I also paid for a paper bag to carry everything which lasted less than a minute the handle broke. Nothing here yields quality and I didn’t feel I got what I paid for.

Rude staff don't acknowledge your actually waiting in the queue. Don't serve people in an order just as and when, also staff could wear hairnets. Good quality of food.

We stopped going to the Esk chippy because the fish we got was poorly filleted. It was full of sharp long bones. Tonight after 4 months we gave it another go. Fish was full of bones again. They really should check with whoever is filleting their fish as it's absolutely awful getting a mouthful of sharp bones. The frier should double check fish before it gets covered in batter. In the bin it went . Won't be back.