Frying Tonight! - Friday Fish at Faulkners

My Cod, what a fine piece of fish you are!

Who can forget those wonderful lines, so expressively enunciated by the late Kenneth Williams in Carry On Screaming "frying tonight!"?  So that's exactly what we did at the ever-faithful (and award-winning) Faulkners on Kingsland Road.  In fact it was Dalston's cod which you see before you.  Thinly coated in crisp batter, a wedge of lemon.  That's it.

Mine was the big Bass.  Perfectly grilled.  Wedge of Lemon.  That's it - or rather this is it.

The goblet (250 mil) of red wine which I chose to glug cost £3.50.  And both the bass...

Perfectly grilled

and the cod were preceded by whitebait, looking a bit like mini torpedoes...

All hands to battle stations!

which came with lemon, and a small (undressed) salad garnish of tomato, lettice and cucumber.  Sarson's malt vinegar on the table together with salt and pepper.  It's the original minimalist.  To add some frills and furbelows. we ordered sides of spinach (one).




The spinach looks good

 and chips (twice).




Definitely a chip and not a frite to say it

Faulkners has won prizes for its fish and chips and this is what they're good at - fish.  The spinach looked very nice and was OK once the excess water in which it was swimming (invisible from the surface) had been drained from it - they hadn't done this in the kitchen.  The chips were fried (once?, certainly not twice) and were rather limp and pallid.
The fish was great, so do go for the fish, although catch the later post on the amazing Kumkapi and our third visit (with camera).  Incidentally, whilst I do enjoy Carry On Screaming (about once every 10 years now that I've seen it several times), my all time favourite is this... guaranteed to leave you with a smile on your face - simply the best!