Les Delices De Cumbria - Part IX

Cancel that dinner party, skip the snack, forego breakfast, forget about your tea, abandon lunch all ye who eat here - get down to Tangier Street in Whitehaven where Crosby's produce what are possibly the finest fish and chips available to humanity. I stopped off there on Friday en route to La Virtuosa's, being sternly enjoined not to turn up without supper. The result was haddock and chips - straight out of the frier, sizzling hot, huge fillets of beautifuly flaky, moist flesh encased in deliciously crisp, richly hued batter. We devoured them.